Tucson is the produce gate and the copper town. The reefers come up from Nogales and the ore trucks run the Sierrita and Mission mines south of the city, while the Rillito cement plant and the gravel pits at Rillito and Marana feed the mixers. Three in four of the carriers based here stay inside Arizona, and the cotton fields of Pima County still put a cotton truck on the road each fall.
That mix is what a Tucson truck looks like: a produce reefer, a haul truck or a flatbed on the mine road, a mixer, a bus, a garbage truck, a tandem-axle dump truck, and the sleeper-equipped semi truck that works the interstate lane and comes home.
Tucson has three MVD offices, the regional office at 3565 South Broadmont, Tucson East at 1360 South Stocker Drive and Tucson North at 7330 North Shannon Road, each issuing a duplicate title and recording the title transfer. The fifteen-day buyer clock and the salvage brand are explained on the Arizona page.
Heat is the Tucson wear: cooling system, belts, dash and seat vinyl go before the drivetrain does. Open the hood and the door for the camera first, then walk the body, and say whether the truck worked the mines, the produce docks or the highway.
Three posted bridges and the railroad over Sixth Avenue
Arizona folds its enforcement tolerance into the axle figure and keeps the federal limits on I-10, as the Arizona page explains. Tucson keeps a short list of its own: three bridges with a load posting and a single clearance under fourteen feet, where the Southern Pacific line crosses Sixth Avenue at ten feet eleven.
Tell us where the truck sits in Tucson, on the south side by the airport, out toward Rillito or in a yard near the mines, and send photos and the title.