Grain, hay and produce
If your tractor has pulled hopper or flatbed loads of hay off the fields around town, tell us the trailer type it was set up for and how the fifth wheel is configured, so we know the truck before we see it.
Fresh produce appears on 53 of those Royal City registrations and farm supplies on 36, while 58 list general freight, according to the same federal census. A reefer tractor or a straight truck that ran produce to packing sheds is a truck we buy; photos of the cab, the frame and the reefer unit, if it has one, let us plan the pickup around how it was used.
Of the 114 carriers, 64 are private fleets, meaning a farm or business moving its own goods, on FMCSA’s figures. A truck that belonged to an orchard or a dairy can be sold by that operation directly; have whoever holds the title on hand when you call.
Intrastate operators outnumber interstate ones here, 84 to 30, in the federal carrier census for Royal City. A truck that stayed inside Washington usually carries only a Washington title and registration, which keeps the paperwork for a sale simple: one state, one record.
Among drivers working for Royal City carriers, FMCSA reports 228 who stay within a hundred-mile radius and 90 who go farther. For most local sellers, that places the truck parked on a farm, at a yard in town or at a shop near the fields when we come for it; give us the address and say whether a tow truck can reach it.
The median truck run by the 31 carriers here that reported mileage covered 34,102 miles a year, as recorded in FMCSA’s carrier census. Have your odometer reading and the VIN ready when you get in touch, since those two numbers start every conversation about a specific truck.
The Callahan Pit and the quarries to the north
Half a mile west of town, the Callahan Pit is a sand and gravel operation listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that work a pit this close to Royal City are often parked right beside it, and we collect from the site if the owner allows access.
Farther out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Hiawatha Wash Plant 17.1 miles north-east, the Quincy WA Mine, an industrial-mineral mine, 17.2 miles north-west, and Portable Crusher #1, a crushed-stone quarry, 25 miles north-east. If your truck hauled aggregate between those sites, mention which ones; it tells us what body and axle setup to expect.
A contractor selling one dump truck or a whole small group of them can send the VINs together, and we will go through each truck in turn.
Twenty-one and a half miles east of Royal City is the Othello rail yard, on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Trucks that shuttle grain or produce to rail in Othello may be stored there between seasons; tell us which town the truck is in.
A tanker tractor or fuel delivery truck that loaded there is one we purchase too; keep any tank inspection or service records with the truck so they travel with it.
Roadside inspections of 81 trucks from Royal City carriers, between September 2024 and August 2026, show a median model year of 2014, according to FMCSA roadside inspection records. FMCSA’s inspection records also put 56.8 percent of those trucks at ten or more model years old.
Whatever the model year of yours, the first things we ask for are the year, make and model as printed on the registration, and clear photos of each side of the cab. With those in hand, the rest of the conversation is about collection.
The Washington State Department of Licensing handles replacement titles, and its vehicle and vessel licensing offices take the application. The closest to Royal City is Winzler Vehicle Licensing at 1312 W Broadway Ave, Moses Lake, 21.5 miles away, as listed by the Department of Licensing.
If the truck’s title is missing, start that replacement before we schedule the pickup. A truck held in a farm or business name needs the signer the Department of Licensing has on record for that business.
Royal City’s surrounding county had 1,238 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, milk and corn at the top of its sales. Feed trucks, milk tankers and grain trucks from those farms are trucks we buy, whether the farm runs one truck or several.
Out of 804 jobs located in Royal City in 2023, manufacturing accounted for 69, or 8.6 percent, in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. A box truck or straight truck from a local plant or packing operation is welcome as well; send the registration and a few photos to begin.
The questions we get asked in Royal City
- Will you come to a farm outside Royal City for my truck?Most Royal City drivers, 228 of them in FMCSA’s carrier census, work within a hundred-mile radius, so trucks here are often parked on farms; we collect from the farm, the yard or the shop where yours is kept.