Quarries west of town, pits to the south
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Plant 1, a crushed-stone quarry 3.7 miles west of East Port Orchard, and Kitsap Quarry 4.8 miles out in the same direction. If your end-dump or transfer truck loads at either one, tell us which quarry and where the truck is parked between runs, so we can plan the collection at the yard rather than ask you to move it.
To the south, Bethel Pit sits 4.2 miles away and Airport Pit 6.5 miles south-west, both sand and gravel operations in Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. A truck that hauls aggregate out of Bethel Pit can be collected from the pit lot itself if the operator allows it; give us a name at the gate and the hours it is open.
Bremerton base and spur
Naval Base Kitsap and the Bremerton rail spur
Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton lies 2.9 miles north-west of town on Bureau of Transportation Statistics installation records, with NG Bremerton listed 3.7 miles out on the same bearing. Contractors’ flatbeds, box trucks and utility bodies that serve the base often sit in yards just outside the gates; if yours does, send the street address and we will come to it there.
Three miles north-west, the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics shows the BREMERTON NAVAL rail yard. The North American Rail Network also places SEATTLE TERMINAL #5 12.3 miles east. A tractor that has pulled containers or flats between Seattle and Kitsap can stay wherever it is parked; tell us which city it is in.
Base access rules mean a truck parked inside a fence needs someone who can let our driver in. Name that person when you contact us, along with the VIN and the odometer reading, and the rest of the questions follow from those.
Tree farms and cattle
Christmas tree lots and cattle ground
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 570 farms in Kitsap County, and its top listed products are cut Christmas trees, cut trees with short-term woody crops, and cattle. Stake beds, flatbeds and livestock haulers that work those farms belong on the list of what we purchase.
If your tree truck sits in a barn or a field off a gravel lane between seasons, tell us the surface and whether a tow rig can reach it, and send photos taken where it stands.
Farm trucks sometimes carry farm plates or a title still in a parent’s or partner’s name. Bring whatever title and registration you have to the first call, and we will tell you what else the sale needs in your situation.
Port Orchard employers
Shop trucks from East Port Orchard employers
Census Bureau LEHD job counts for 2023 tally 1,766 positions located in East Port Orchard. Delivery vans, service bodies and small box trucks belonging to the businesses behind those jobs are trucks we collect from shop lots and driveways around town.
If you are retiring a company truck, have someone with signing authority for the business ready, plus the title showing the business as owner, the registration and any maintenance logs and inspection records.
What Ecology lists for ACT and Low NOx
Washington’s Department of Ecology, in its published guidance update, lists enforcement of the Advanced Clean Trucks rule as adopted in the state’s Clean Vehicles Program as paused. The same Department of Ecology document shows the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus standards under WAC 173-423-081 with enforcement paused as well.
The guidance update covering Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks and the Low NOx Omnibus is listed by Ecology as in force. If you have questions about how these rules touch a truck you plan to keep, that Ecology publication is the place to read them; for the truck you are selling to us, they add nothing to the paperwork.
The questions we get asked in East Port Orchard
- My end-dump sits at Kitsap Quarry between loads; does it have to come into East Port Orchard first?Kitsap Quarry is 4.8 miles west of town on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect the truck from there. Tell us who controls the quarry gate and when it is open.
- The truck is behind a fence near Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton; how does pickup work there?The base sits 2.9 miles north-west of East Port Orchard on Bureau of Transportation Statistics records, and a truck parked near it can be picked up where it is. Give us the name of someone cleared to let our driver through the gate.
- I hauled Kitsap Christmas trees with this flatbed; is that a truck you take?Cut Christmas trees head the product list for Kitsap County’s 570 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and the flatbeds and stake trucks that haul them are trucks we buy. Send the title, registration and photos of the deck and cab.
- Does Washington’s paused Advanced Clean Trucks enforcement change anything about selling my Kitsap diesel?Ecology’s published guidance lists enforcement of both the Advanced Clean Trucks rule and the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus as paused, and neither one appears in the paperwork for selling your truck to us.