Customers & Services

All Salvage Services

  • Cargo recovery
  • Warehouse fire inventory salvage
  • Bin fires and bin explosions
  • Maintenance work (Bin and tank cleaning)
  • Train derailments
  • Truck wrecks
  • Load transfers
  • Merchandising of salvage commodities
  • Pneumatic conveyor rental
  • Spill cleanups
  • Wet and dry vacs
  • Ship and barge work

Insurance Providers

West Side Salvage is able to make a full service commitment for insurance providers. With one phone call to West Side Salvage, we will clean up, recover and restore your customers’ business. We offer a full range of equipment to recover commodities such as grain, feeds, food-grade products, fertilizers, chemicals, plastics, lumber and more. Our services will save you time and money.

Railroads

For almost 50 years we have offered salvage/recovery services to the railroad industry. Our capabilities range from simple track cleaning, load adjustments and car transfers to major train derailments. West Side Salvage offers a wide variety of specialized equipment including truck-mounted pneumatic conveyors equipped with high rail gear for quick response to train derailments. These units allow easy access to remote derailment sites not accessible by road or cross-country. Our ability to travel on rail under our own power eliminates the need for expensive railroad engines, flat cars or work crews as we can pull empty and loaded cars in and out of remote areas.

  • Full service commodity salvage/recovery
  • Emergency mobilization within an hour
  • Car cutting
  • Debris removal
  • Demolition work
  • Environmental and site clean up
  • Final landscaping, grading and seeding

West Side Salvage will buy, sell or merchandise the products we handle. Our equipment and experienced personnel protect the integrity of the commodity, represent the condition to potential buyers and achieve the highest price.

When there is a fire or a potential for a fire. Safety is our top priority. Our people are confined space trained and utilize the latest technology in air quality testing and monitoring as well as rescue and retrieval methods and equipment.

 

Processors / Manufacturers

West Side Salvage is able to make a full service expert commitment for many types of businesses including processors, manufacturers, warehouses, and distributors. With one phone call, West Side Salvage will clean up, recover and restore your business with your sense of urgency. We offer a full range of equipment to recover commodities such as grain, feeds, food-grade products, fertilizers, chemicals, plastics, lumber and more. Our services will save you time and money.

We have salvaged commodities from butter to feathers to entire warehouses of baking supplies. We have the expertise, equipment and reputation for complete recovery on all of your projects.