Construction work and the Canyon Resources pit
Construction accounts for 534 of the 2,752 jobs located in Midland, according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, a 19.4 percent share. A dump truck, a mixer or a flatbed that has served building sites around Midland is the kind of equipment we collect here. Have the title in your name and the current registration on hand before you call, and the rest of the conversation is about the truck itself.
Canyon Resources, a sand and gravel operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 3.3 miles north-east of Midland, is close enough that many local haulers know its gate well. If your end dump or transfer rig is parked at a pit or a contractor’s yard rather than at your home, give us the yard’s address and the name of whoever can let our driver in. Photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab, taken where the truck stands, help us plan the pickup.
Rail on the flats
Midland’s neighbours on the rail map: FIFE, BAY and TacSIM
Just up the road from Midland, the FIFE rail yard lies 4.6 miles north-east and the BAY yard 4.8 miles due north, both mapped in the North American Rail Network that the Federal Railroad Administration maintains with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your tractor shuttles freight between those yards and nearby warehouses, it may be parked in a shared lot. Tell us which lot, and whether a gate code or an escort is needed, so a collection near the yards goes without a second trip.
A further ramp, the Tacoma South Intermodal Yard (TacSIM), sits 5.8 miles north of town on Bureau of Transportation Statistics records. Day cabs with container chassis experience fit this stretch of Pierce County well. Send us the VIN, the odometer reading and a clear picture of the fifth wheel, and keep any port or terminal access records with the paperwork for the sale.
Auto docks and roll-on terminals to the north
Two roll-on/roll-off berths appear in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings a short drive up from Midland: the Port of Tacoma’s Marshall Avenue Auto Facility at 5.6 miles and its West Sitcum Terminal at 5.9 miles. Car haulers and the tractors that pull them work between those docks and the inland routes. If yours is a car hauler, tell us the trailer type along with the tractor, since we take the pair or the tractor alone.
Owners who ran port work and then parked the truck back in Midland do not need to move it to the waterfront again. We arrange collection at your driveway, a shop or a rented space in town. Have the keys, the title and a photo of the registration card ready for the driver on the day.
Tank rigs loading at the Truck-Rail Handling and Arrow Reload transload sites
Truck-Rail Handling Inc, a liquid bulk terminal 5.1 miles to the north, and Arrow Reload Washington Inc., another 5.2 miles out in the same direction, both appear in Bureau of Transportation Statistics terminal records. Tank tractors and straight-truck tankers that load at transload sites like these are part of what we buy around Midland. List the tank’s capacity and the products it carried when you get in touch.
Keep the tank’s inspection certificates and any service log in one folder alongside the title. If the tank has been cleaned and the paperwork shows it, include that sheet with your photos, so the driver collecting it in Pierce County knows how the load should be secured.
Factories and wholesale
Box trucks behind Midland’s manufacturing and wholesale jobs
Manufacturing holds 186 jobs in Midland and wholesale trade another 125, in the 2023 LEHD job counts published by the Census Bureau, while transportation and warehousing is listed at 52. Straight trucks, reefers and liftgate box vans that make short deliveries out of these businesses are trucks we buy alongside full-size tractors.
For a box truck used by a small Midland business, the title may be held in the company’s name rather than yours. Have an officer of the business sign it, or tell us early whose name is on it, and we will go through what the sale paperwork needs to show.
Flower growers, cattle and hemp across Pierce County
Pierce County counted 1,347 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cut flowers and cultivated greens, cattle and hemp at the top of its list. Livestock haulers, flatbeds and small reefers that move nursery stock or cattle across the county are welcome sales for us.
A farm truck often lives in a barn or a field lane rather than on pavement. Give us directions to it, note whether a loaded trailer is attached, and send a few photos taken in daylight so we can match the right tow equipment to where it sits.
The questions we get asked in Midland
- My dump truck is still parked at the Canyon Resources gravel pit near Midland; will your driver pick it up at the pit?Canyon Resources, the sand and gravel operation 3.3 miles north-east of town on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings, is the sort of site we collect from. Clear the visit with the operator first and give us a contact on site.
- Would you take a day cab I used for drayage out of the Tacoma South Intermodal Yard?Day cabs that served TacSIM, 5.8 miles north of Midland in Bureau of Transportation Statistics records, are trucks we purchase. Send the VIN, the mileage and photos of the cab and fifth wheel.
- The Washington title for my Midland truck has gone missing; where does a replacement come from?A replacement title in Washington comes from the state’s title agency, and Pierce County owners can request it before the sale. Tell us at the start if you are waiting on one, and we will plan around the duplicate.
- Do you take a tanker that loaded at Arrow Reload?Arrow Reload Washington Inc., a liquid bulk terminal 5.2 miles north of Midland per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, handles the kind of loads our tanker sellers describe. Include the tank’s inspection certificates and the products it hauled when you contact us.