Stone and sand west of town
Crushed stone and gravel west of Manchester
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Plant 1, a crushed-stone quarry 7.2 miles west of Manchester, and Kitsap Quarry, another crushed-stone site 7.8 miles west. Dump trucks, end dumps and belly-dump tractors that load at those faces are trucks we buy. If yours is still parked inside a quarry gate, give us the site name and someone who can let a driver in.
Bethel Pit, a sand and gravel operation 7.4 miles south-west of town on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, is the third aggregate site in that ring. A gravel truck that has spent its working life between these pits and Kitsap job sites does not need to be brought into Manchester first. Send photos of the bed, the frame and the cab, plus the VIN, and we can plan the collection from wherever it sits.
Bremerton gates and track
Naval Base Kitsap and the Bremerton rail yard
A military installation listed simply as Manchester lies 1.3 miles north of town on Bureau of Transportation Statistics records, and Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton is 4.9 miles west. Box trucks, flatbeds and tractors that have run supplies to those gates often end up parked at a contractor yard close by. Tell us the yard’s address and whether base access is needed to reach it, so pickup is arranged with the right people.
West of Manchester by 5.4 miles, the BREMERTON NAVAL rail yard appears in the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your truck has shuttled freight off that yard, keep the title, the current Washington registration and any service records together in one folder. Those three items answer most of what we ask before a truck changes hands.
Over the water to Seattle
The container ramp on the Seattle side
Terminal 5 is a rail intermodal ramp 8.3 miles east of Manchester across the water, per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and the rail network lists SEATTLE TERMINAL #5 as a rail yard at the same spot. Day cabs and sleepers that pull containers off that ramp are on the list of what we purchase, whether they are kept in Seattle or garaged back on the Kitsap side.
Some owners who pull containers off the Seattle ramp and live in Manchester keep the tractor on one shore and the paperwork on the other. Tell us which side of the water the truck is parked on before anything else. If the title is in a lender’s name, have the lien release or the lender’s contact details ready as well.
Tree lots and cattle ground
Kitsap County’s Christmas tree and cattle trucks around Manchester
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 570 farms in Kitsap County, with cut Christmas trees, cut trees with short-term woody crops, and cattle at the top of the county’s list. Flatbeds and stake trucks that haul trees to lots each winter, and livestock haulers that move cattle, fit what we collect from farm owners here.
A truck that only works a tree harvest may sit in a barn or field for much of the year. That is fine for a sale from Manchester: send the VIN, a few photos taken where it stands and a note on whether a tractor can reach it on farm ground, and the collection gets planned around the field.
A Washington title
Jobs in town and the Washington title
Manchester itself holds only 270 jobs, a 2023 tally from the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. With that few workplaces in town, the trucks owned here usually earn their living at the quarries, the naval sites or the Seattle ramps listed above, so tell us where yours worked as well as where it is parked.
A lost Washington title is replaced through the state’s title agency before a sale. If the registration has lapsed while the truck sat, say so up front; it tells us which paperwork to ask you for.
Ecology’s truck rules
Where Washington’s clean truck rules stand for a Manchester owner
The Department of Ecology shows the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus standards, rule WAC 173-423-081, paused as well in that same publication.
An updated Ecology guidance document covering Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks and the Low NOx Omnibus is listed as in force. If you have questions about how these rules touch your truck in Kitsap County, mention the engine model year when you contact us and we will talk it through with you.
The questions we get asked in Manchester
- A dump truck of mine sits up at Kitsap Quarry, west of Manchester. Will you collect it from inside the quarry?Kitsap Quarry lies 7.8 miles west of Manchester on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and a truck parked inside that site can be collected where it stands. Tell us who holds the quarry gate key and which days the site is staffed.
- Can you pick up a tractor I keep near the Seattle container ramp?Terminal 5 sits 8.3 miles east of Manchester according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and a truck kept on that side of the water can be collected where it stands. Send the street address of the lot along with the tractor’s VIN.
- I haul Christmas trees around Kitsap County. Would you take the flatbed I use for the harvest?Cut Christmas trees head the list for Kitsap County’s 570 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and flatbeds and stake trucks from that work are trucks we purchase. Photos and the title are the place to start.