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Colfax · Whitman County · Washington

Sell your semi truck for cash in Colfax the easy and convenient way

Colfax sits in the Palouse wheat country of eastern Washington, where FMCSA’s carrier census lists 109 active carriers and most of them haul grain, feed, hay or farm supplies between fields, elevators and the Palouse rail yard.

Selling a truck in Colfax? Tell us about it and we'll take it from there.

Wheat, barley and the trucks that move them out of Colfax

Among the 109 Colfax carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, 79 list grain, feed and hay as a cargo and 62 list farm supplies. Those are bulk hoppers, grain tractors and flatbeds that spend harvest on gravel field roads, so when you contact us say which farm or yard the truck is parked at and we will route the pickup there.

Whitman County holds 933 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with wheat, cattle and barley at the top of the list. A tractor that pulled cattle pots or a straight truck that hauled seed and fertilizer out of Colfax fits what we buy just as well as a grain hopper, so send photos of the cab, the frame and the body or trailer it worked with.

Machinery and large objects appear on 36 local carrier registrations in the federal census, and general freight on 30. If your truck moved combines, headers or other implements on a lowboy, tell us what trailer stays with it and what goes, so the paperwork covers exactly the equipment you are letting go.

Harvest-season rigs

Farm fleets that stay inside Washington

Of the active carriers in town, 94 run intrastate against 15 interstate, and 92 describe themselves as private fleets, according to the FMCSA registration records. A farm or co-op truck registered only for Washington work sells the same way as a for-hire rig; have the registration and the USDOT number to hand when you call.

Drivers based around Colfax mostly stay close: FMCSA’s census shows 259 working within a hundred-mile radius and 72 beyond it. FMCSA’s carrier census gives a median of 4,125 miles a year per truck across the 16 local carriers that reported mileage, so tell us whether yours is in a shed, on a farm lot or in a yard in town.

Colfax on the scales

Forty-one trucks pulled over near the Palouse

Between September 2024 and July 2026, roadside inspectors checked 41 trucks belonging to Colfax operators, and those FMCSA roadside inspection records list 2017 as the middle model year of the group. Give us the model year and VIN first; the rest of our questions follow from those two lines.

Seventeen of those 41 Colfax inspections, roughly two in five on FMCSA’s roadside record, involved a tractor or straight truck built a decade or more before. Older and newer tractors are both on our list, and the service records you kept, even a folder of shop receipts, help us read the truck before we see it.

A duplicate title from the county auditor

Washington State Department of Licensing handles titles through its vehicle and vessel licensing offices, and the one serving Colfax is the WHITMAN COUNTY AUDITOR AUTO LICENSE at 400 N Main, Colfax, 99111, listed 8.9 miles from town. A Colfax seller without the paper title can file for a duplicate at that counter, and we set the collection date once it is in hand.

The Department of Licensing also publishes its lost-title and registration replacement steps online. A truck still financed needs the lienholder’s release, so bring the loan account details along with your ID when you visit the auditor’s counter.

Out past the grain elevators

Palouse rail yard and the gravel pit toward the Idaho line

Twelve and a half miles east, the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the PALOUSE rail yard. If your truck is parked near the yard rather than in Colfax, give us that address and someone who can open the gate.

South-east of town, about 12.9 miles out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists a sand and gravel operation called Portable 2. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that worked the pit can stay where they sit; tell us the site and a contact, and we arrange collection there.

Wholesale and warehouse work

Warehouses, wholesalers and construction crews

In 2023 the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts recorded 1,359 jobs in Colfax, with wholesale trade at 128, transportation and warehousing at 124 and construction at 66. Wholesale and warehouse work around a grain town means box trucks, reefers and delivery straight trucks, all of which we buy outright.

Colfax has 21 construction establishments on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, from excavators to builders. A contractor’s dump truck, flatbed or service body truck can be sold on its own, without the rest of the yard; list what tools or racks are bolted on so we know what comes with it.

Paused enforcement and a diesel tractor in Whitman County

Ecology’s published guidance shows enforcement of Advanced Clean Trucks, as adopted in Washington’s Clean Vehicles Program, as paused, along with the state’s Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus emission standards. A diesel tractor parked in Colfax can be sold under those rules as they stand today.

The state’s updated regulatory guidance for Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks and the Low NOx Omnibus is in force, so keep the engine label and emissions paperwork with the truck; we read those documents along with the title.

The questions we get asked in Colfax

  • Which counter in Colfax issues a duplicate truck title?The WHITMAN COUNTY AUDITOR AUTO LICENSE at 400 N Main, Colfax, 99111, is a Washington State Department of Licensing vehicle and vessel licensing office, 8.9 miles from town. Start the replacement there.

Sell your truck in Colfax

From the wheat fields around Colfax to the Palouse rail yard east of town and the gravel pit to the south-east, we collect trucks wherever Whitman County work left them.