Private fleets along the state highway
Of Freeland’s 44 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, 41 operate intrastate only and just 3 cross state lines. If your truck has spent its working life inside Washington, its registration and plates are likely Washington issue, so keep the current registration card with the title when you contact us.
Thirty-nine of those carriers are private fleets, according to the same FMCSA census, meaning the business owns the truck to move its own materials or equipment. A contractor or supplier selling one unit from a small yard here should tell us whose name is on the title, the company’s or an owner’s, and have that person ready to sign.
The three biggest fleets based in town run 11, 7 and 6 power units, per FMCSA’s census, with 5, 4 and 3 drivers respectively. Owners of a two- or three-truck operation can sell one unit and keep the rest working; send the VIN, the plate and a few photos of the truck you are letting go.
Loads on Freeland filings
Equipment haulers, log rigs and trash bodies
FMCSA’s census shows 19 Freeland outfits declaring general freight, with 16 also or instead naming machinery and large objects. A flatbed, lowboy or rollback that has moved equipment around the county belongs on the list of trucks we collect; photograph the deck, the ramps and any winch along with the cab.
Logs, poles, beams and lumber appear on 8 filings in FMCSA’s census, and garbage, refuse or trash on 5. Log trucks with bunks and stakes, and refuse bodies such as rear loaders or roll-off hoists, should be described by body make and model when you write to us, with a photo of the body itself.
FMCSA’s census also shows one new carrier registered in Freeland in 2025 and three in 2024. A truck bought for a business that started in those years will usually have its purchase papers close at hand; put the bill of sale with the title so the ownership chain is complete.
Local miles and home-based drivers
Drivers working within 100 air miles of base number 69 in FMCSA’s carrier census, against 18 who range farther. For most sellers here that means the truck returns to the same yard or driveway each evening, which is where we would come to pick it up.
In FMCSA’s carrier census, the ten local operators that reported annual mileage show a median of 5,125 miles per truck. Read the odometer before you call and give us that figure alongside the VIN; it is a plain record of use, nothing more.
Freeland’s 1,125 workplace jobs in 2023 included 67 in construction, roughly a 6 percent slice, on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. County Business Patterns, also from the Census Bureau, lists 31 construction establishments, so dump trucks, service bodies and equipment haulers are part of the local mix.
Pits and quarries within a dozen miles
Greenbank, Inc., a sand and gravel operation 8.9 miles north, is on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list of active sites. Dump trucks and end dumps that load there tend to sit at a contractor’s yard between jobs; tell us that address and whether a loaded or empty truck is easier to reach.
West of town the Mine Safety and Health Administration records Cotton Pit & Plant, a gravel operation 10.1 miles out, and a crushed-stone quarry called Rock Plant at 10.1 miles to the north-east. If your truck is parked at one of those sites, give us a name and number for whoever controls the gate so collection can be set up with them.
Manufacturing holds 137 local jobs, a 12.2 percent share in the Census Bureau’s LEHD figures for 2023. Box trucks and straight trucks delivering for shops and plants around Freeland are trucks we buy too; have the registration and any service invoices together before we talk.
Bases and the mainland
Navy sites, Everett and Bayside Yard
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places CNI NAVMAG Indian Island 8.3 miles west of Freeland and OLF Coupeville 11.9 miles north-west, both military installations. A truck that has run contract work onto either base may carry gate passes or site decals; mention them, and remove any access credentials before we collect.
Everett, 15.3 miles east, is designated a strategic seaport by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Trucks registered here that have moved cargo for the port side can be collected wherever they are parked on either side of the water, so give us the exact location rather than your home address.
On the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Bayside Yard sits 15.7 miles east. Tractors and day cabs that shuttle loads to that yard should come with their title and current registration; those two papers settle most of what we need.
A licensing office in town
Lost titles in this state are replaced by the state’s licensing department, which handles them at its vehicle and vessel licensing offices. The Washington State Department of Licensing lists the nearest as Vehicle Licensing of Freeland at 18205 State Route 525, Freeland, 98249, about 1.5 miles from the town centre.
Bring photo identification and the VIN to that office when you apply for a replacement, and if a lender once held the truck, the lien release too. Once the Department of Licensing issues the new title, send us a photo of the front and back and we can move ahead.
Washington’s Department of Ecology lists its rules adopting the advanced clean trucks regulation and the heavy-duty low-NOx engine standards with enforcement paused, while its updated regulatory guidance for those programs is in force. Sellers here do not need any emissions paperwork beyond what the Department of Licensing already asks for at transfer.
Hay, stock and grain
Around Freeland, Island County holds 377 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, where cattle, equine and corn are the leading listings. Trucks that pull stock trailers, flatbeds hauling hay and grain trucks working those farms are trucks we purchase from owners here.
A farm truck may carry farm plates rather than commercial registration; tell us which, and keep the title with whichever registration the Department of Licensing issued. We come to the field, barn or shed where the truck is kept.
The questions we get asked in Freeland
- My business keeps three trucks in Freeland for its own work; will you take only one of them?Thirty-nine of Freeland’s 44 carriers in FMCSA’s census are private fleets, and many sellers here keep the rest of their trucks working. Send the VIN, plate and photos of the single unit you want to sell.