Freight, coil and trash: the loads Mukilteo carriers declare
Half of Mukilteo’s 104 active motor carriers, 52 in all, tick general freight on their filings with FMCSA’s carrier census. If your truck is one of those box or van units, a clear photo of the cargo body and the door seals alongside the cab tells us what the unit was set up for.
Fourteen local carriers in the federal carrier census haul machinery and large objects, and another fourteen move metal sheets, coils and rolls. Lowboys, step-decks and flatbeds with coil racks fall into those groups, so list the trailer or deck the tractor usually pulled and any securement gear that goes with it.
Refuse is on the list as well: the same FMCSA census counts 13 Mukilteo carriers hauling garbage, refuse and trash. A packer or roll-off body sells with its chassis, so include the body maker and model in your first message if you know them.
Intrastate authority and home-radius drivers on the Possession Sound side
Of the 104 carriers on the federal register here, 88 run intrastate only and 16 cross state lines, according to FMCSA’s carrier census, which also lists 72 as private fleets hauling their own goods. A Washington-only truck may never have needed interstate authority, so the title and registration are the two papers that matter most when you sell.
Drivers working for these carriers sit mostly close to home: the FMCSA census records 414 within a 100-mile radius and 94 beyond it. If your truck is parked at a jobsite rather than a yard, give us the street address and the name of whoever can let us in.
Among 28 local carriers that report mileage to FMCSA, the median works out to 20,748 miles per truck a year. Read the odometer before you call and send a photo of the dash, so the figure we work from is the one on your truck.
Model years from the scale houses and roadside stops
Roadside officers checked 136 trucks belonging to Mukilteo-based carriers from late August 2024 to late August 2026, and FMCSA roadside inspection records put the middle model year of that group at 2021. Have the VIN plate photo ready; it confirms the year and the build in one picture.
Just under a quarter of that inspected group, 22.8 percent by the FMCSA inspection tally, carried a model year a decade or more back. Whatever the year of yours, keep any inspection reports and service invoices together in the cab so they come with the title on collection day.
Plant floors and contractor yards on the Mukilteo payroll
Manufacturing accounts for 2,640 of the 9,869 jobs located in Mukilteo in 2023, per the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, and construction adds another 1,980. Flatbeds and box trucks that served plant loading docks can be collected right where they are parked.
Eighty-eight builders and trade contractors keep an establishment in Mukilteo, by the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tally. Dump trucks, mixers and service bodies from those contractors are trucks we buy; photograph the body, the hoist or drum, and the PTO controls along with the cab.
Wholesale trade holds 565 local jobs and transportation and warehousing 117, according to the 2023 LEHD figures. A delivery straight truck from a distributor here only needs the title in the seller’s name and the keys to change hands.
Everett’s seaport, Bayside and the gravel pits east
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists Everett as a strategic seaport 5.4 miles north-east of Mukilteo. Container chassis and day cabs that work the docks there can stay on the lot; tell us the gate and who holds the access.
Bayside Yard sits 7 miles north-east on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your tractor is parked near the yard, a pin dropped on a map saves a phone call later.
East of town, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Heidelberg Materials High Rock Quarry 16.6 miles out and Getchell Pit, a sand and gravel operation, at 17.1 miles. The same MSHA list places Rock Plant 19.2 miles north-west and New Shine Quarry 19.3 miles west; an end dump or belly dump parked at any of them is collected on site.
Dairy and cattle hauling in the county
Snohomish County holds 1,418 farms where milk leads, cattle follows and corn comes third, as USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture ranks them. Milk tankers, livestock haulers and grain trucks from those farms are welcome here.
A farm truck may carry farm plates rather than commercial ones, so check the registration card before you list it and send a photo of it with the title. If the truck sits in a barn lot off a county road, describe the gate and the ground so the collection driver knows the approach.
The questions we get asked in Mukilteo
- My tractor sits by the Everett docks. Will you come up from Mukilteo for it?Everett’s strategic seaport is 5.4 miles north-east of Mukilteo according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and we collect the truck where it stands. Pass along the terminal address and who on the dock side signs it out.
- Is a Mukilteo garbage packer or roll-off something you take?Thirteen Mukilteo carriers haul garbage, refuse and trash on FMCSA’s carrier census, and their packers and roll-offs are trucks we buy. Include the body make with the chassis details when you get in touch.
- Do the Advanced Clean Trucks and Low NOx rules in Washington affect selling my Mukilteo truck?Enforcement of both the Advanced Clean Trucks rule and the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus shows as paused in Washington Department of Ecology guidance, while its updated guidance on those rules is in force. For a sale here, what we ask for is a title in your name and the keys.
- Our end dump stays at High Rock Quarry between loads east of Mukilteo; will you load it out from the pit?High Rock Quarry sits 16.6 miles east of Mukilteo on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and a truck parked there or at Getchell Pit is collected on site. Tell us which gate to use and who signs the truck out.