Up the road to the pit
Callahan Pit and the aggregate trucks around Desert Aire
Drive 20.1 miles north-east out of Desert Aire and you reach Callahan Pit, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration records as a sand and gravel operation. Dump trucks, end dumps and belly-dump tractors that cycle between a pit like that and local job sites are part of what we buy, and we can pick one up at the pit gate or at your yard.
If your truck is parked at or near Callahan Pit, tell us who controls access to the site and when someone can open it. A dump body, a pup trailer or a set of belly dumps can come with the tractor; list each piece and send a photo of each so we know the whole set before we arrive.
Milk tankers, livestock haulers and grain trucks
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,238 farms in Grant County, and it ranks cattle, milk and corn as the county’s leading products. Around Desert Aire that means milk tankers, cattle pots, feed trucks and grain hoppers, and we will look at any of them.
A truck that runs on a farm may spend the off-season in a shed or a field corner rather than a paved lot. Give us directions to the exact spot, the gate code if there is one, and whether a tractor-trailer can turn around there, and we plan the collection around the farm’s own schedule.
For a milk tanker or a livestock trailer, send photos of the cab, the frame, the tires and the trailer itself, along with the VIN. A note on whether the trailer is sold with the tractor or kept on the farm saves a second round of questions.
Sixty trucks, one median
Desert Aire’s inspected trucks by model year
The median truck stopped near Desert Aire was a 2013 model, on FMCSA roadside inspection records covering 60 trucks checked from September 2024 through August 2026. Older and newer trucks alike are welcome; the model year simply helps us identify the engine and emissions equipment before we talk.
About 57 percent of those 60 trucks were ten or more model years old, according to the same FMCSA roadside inspection records. Whatever year yours is, give us the year, make, model and VIN first, then the odometer reading, and keep any maintenance invoices you have with the truck.
Replacing a missing title through the Department of Licensing
A lost Washington title is replaced through the Washington State Department of Licensing, which handles titles through its vehicle and vessel licensing offices. The nearest one listed by the Washington State Department of Licensing is Robinson Licensing Agency at 632 Decatur Ave, Sunnyside, 98944, about 25.8 miles from Desert Aire.
If the title is in a drawer somewhere, find it before you call; if it is gone, start the replacement with the Department of Licensing and tell us that it is under way. Have the current registration on hand as well, with the VIN and the owner’s name matching the title.
Washington’s clean truck rules and a truck you sell
Washington’s Department of Ecology lists enforcement of the Advanced Clean Trucks rule, adopted in Washington’s Clean Vehicles Program, as paused. The Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus standard is listed as paused too, in the same Department of Ecology publication that cites WAC 173-423-081.
Ecology’s updated regulatory guidance covering Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks and the Low NOx Omnibus is listed as in force. Neither paused rule stops you selling a truck you already own; keep the emissions label under the hood readable in your photos so the engine family is clear.
The questions we get asked in Desert Aire
- Can you collect an end dump sitting up at Callahan Pit rather than in town?Callahan Pit is 20.1 miles north-east of Desert Aire, per the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and we collect from the pit itself. Give us the name of whoever runs the gate at the pit that day.
- Which licensing office in reach of Desert Aire replaces a missing Washington title?Robinson Licensing Agency at 632 Decatur Ave, Sunnyside, about 25.8 miles away, is the nearest vehicle and vessel licensing office listed by the Washington State Department of Licensing, which issues replacement titles.
- Do you take trucks from Grant County dairies and cattle operations?Milk and cattle rank among Grant County’s top farm products in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and milk tankers, cattle pots and feed trucks from those farms are all trucks we buy.