Hay and produce
What Warden’s trucks are registered to carry
Of the 110 active carriers that FMCSA’s carrier census places in Warden, 67 list grain, feed or hay as a cargo and 64 list fresh produce. If your tractor pulled hopper or flatbed loads of hay to the yards here, say which trailer it ran with, since a seller who names the hitch and the trailer type saves a round of questions.
General freight shows up on 45 of those Warden registrations and farm supplies on 35, again on the FMCSA census. A truck that spent the season moving fertiliser, seed or equipment to fields around town fits the list we buy; send the VIN, a photo of each side of the cab and the plate number so we can match it to its registration.
Plates stay local
Eighty-two carriers that never leave Washington
In FMCSA filings, 82 carriers based in Warden are intrastate and 28 as interstate, and 41 of them haul only their own goods. For a seller, that usually means a truck with Washington plates and a Washington title, so the paperwork we ask for stays with one state’s title agency.
Among the 32 local carriers that reported annual mileage to the federal census, the median comes to 13,125 miles per truck. Drivers listed in the same census split 188 working inside a hundred-mile radius against 149 going farther. Wherever yours spent its year, have the odometer reading and the registration card in hand when you contact us.
FMCSA roadside inspection records from September 2024 to August 2026 cover 81 trucks tied to carriers based in Warden, with a median model year of 2010. Nearly three in four of those 81 inspected trucks, 71.6 percent on the same FMCSA sheets, carried a model year a decade or more back. Send the year, make and model of yours along with a photo of the VIN plate on the door jamb.
If a roadside inspection report or annual inspection sheet sits in the glovebox, photograph it with the truck. Those inspection papers and any service records tell us the truck’s history when you cannot walk us round it yourself.
Sidings west
The Warden siding and the Moses Lake fuel terminal
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, shows the WARDEN rail yard 0.5 miles west of town and the OTHELLO yard 11.3 miles to the south-west. A truck parked near either siding can stay where it is; give us the address and the name of whoever holds the gate key.
North-west of Warden, the Energy Information Administration lists the MOSES LAKE WA petroleum product terminal at 15.5 miles. A tractor parked at a lot out on that side of the basin is collected where it stands; tell us the lot and who can let us in.
Crushers and wash plants north-west of town
According to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, two portable operations sit 13.6 miles north-west of Warden: Portable Crusher #1, a crushed-stone quarry, and Portable Crusher #2, a sand and gravel site. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that worked those pits are trucks we buy, and a photo of the bed raised helps us see the hoist and body.
The Hiawatha Wash Plant, a sand and gravel operation 21.4 miles to the west, also appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau show 6 construction establishments in the area; if your truck hauled aggregate for one of them, list the body type and the axle setup when you write to us.
Titles in this state come from the Washington State Department of Licensing, which handles a lost title through its vehicle and vessel licensing offices. The Department of Licensing lists OTHELLO LICENSING SERVICES at 745 E Hemlock, Othello, 99344, as the nearest of those offices, about 11.1 miles from Warden.
If the title is missing or still names a lender as lienholder, sort it out at that Othello counter before pickup, and bring the registration and your ID. A title in your name, signed where the Department of Licensing asks, is the one document we cannot collect the truck without.
Farm work across the Columbia Basin
Grant County holds 1,238 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, where cattle, milk and corn lead the county’s products. Feed trucks, milk tankers and silage haulers from those operations are all welcome, and a truck can be collected from the farm yard where it is parked.
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting account for 405 of the 1,037 jobs located in Warden, a 39.1 percent share, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023. Manufacturing adds 254 jobs in the same LEHD count, or 24.5 percent. If a processing plant or packing shed owns the truck you are selling, have a company officer sign the title.
The questions we get asked in Warden
- The tractor sits on a dairy or hay farm a few miles out of Warden - who moves it?Grant County’s 1,238 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture spread trucks across the whole basin, and we collect from the farm itself. Send the road address and any gate or access notes.
- A Warden seller has lost the title; which counter reissues it?The Washington State Department of Licensing lists OTHELLO LICENSING SERVICES at 745 E Hemlock in Othello, 11.1 miles from Warden, as a vehicle and vessel licensing office that handles lost titles.