Coach yards west of Clyde Hill
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places a rail yard called COACH 6.1 miles west of Clyde Hill and COACH YARD 6.3 miles to the south-west. A box truck or straight truck that has run service calls or parts to yards like these can be sold from wherever it sits tonight, whether that is a driveway on the hill or a lot near the tracks.
Before you contact us about a truck that has worked rail property, find the title and the current registration and put them in one envelope. Add a note of the yard gate it last used, so the person who comes to collect it knows which entrance to ask for.
Container ramps toward the harbor
Terminal 30 (T-30), 6.5 miles west, and the Seattle International Gateway (SIG), 6.6 miles south-west, both appear as rail intermodal ramps in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings. Day cabs that shuttle containers between ramps of that kind are tractors we buy, and so are the sleepers that take the boxes onward.
For a container tractor, start by sending the VIN and the odometer reading, then photos of the cab, the fifth wheel, the frame rails and each axle’s tires. If the tractor is parked inside a ramp’s secured area, tell us who holds the gate key so collection can be arranged with them.
According to the Energy Information Administration, the SHELL SEATTLE TERMINAL sits 7.1 miles west of town and the HARBOR ISLAND petroleum product terminal is 7.2 miles west. Fuel tankers and the tractors that pull tank trailers out of terminals like these are on the list of equipment we collect.
Owners of a tanker often keep terminal loading records and inspection sheets in the cab. Leave them in the truck or scan them for us; that paperwork tells us where the unit has been loading and saves a round of questions later.
Cement and crushed stone to the south-west
Mine Safety and Health Administration records show the Seattle Plant, a cement plant, 7.3 miles south-west of Clyde Hill, and the Arcosa Specialty Materials Seattle #1890 crushed-stone quarry 7.8 miles out in the same direction. Mixers, dump trucks and bulk tractors that haul from sites like these are trucks we buy outright.
If your mixer or dump truck is still staged at a plant lot rather than at home, give us that lot’s address and a phone number for whoever runs the yard. Photos of the drum or the bed, plus the hydraulics, go with the usual cab and frame shots.
Contractors, landscapers and delivery operators who keep a work truck here can sell it from the street where it is parked.
A livestock hauler, a milk tanker or a nursery stake-bed from one of those farms is welcome; send the registration and a photo of the body along with the title.
Washington’s Clean Vehicles Program adopted California’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulation, and the state’s published guidance lists its enforcement as paused. That same guidance lists the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicle emissions as paused too.
An updated regulatory guidance document covering Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks and the Low NOx Omnibus is listed as in force. Keep a copy of the truck’s emissions label and engine family details with the title, and send a photo of that label with the rest.