San Diego is a border city with a Navy port, and the trucks split the same way. Drayage tractors run the San Ysidro crossing, the Tenth Avenue and National City terminals handle the ships, and the bases from Miramar to Coronado keep fleets of their own. More than 7,500 carriers are based in the city, and three in four of them work California only.
Manufacturing is the city's biggest truck-using employer, with more than fifty thousand jobs, so the yards hold a lot of box trucks and flatbeds alongside the drayage day cabs, the car haulers, the garbage trucks and the dump trucks out of the Mission Gorge plant. A long-haul semi truck here mostly runs the corridors north.
Normal Street, Clairemont and San Ysidro
Three DMV field offices inside the city do title work: 3960 Normal Street, Clairemont at 4375 Derrick Drive and San Ysidro at 6111 Business Center Court, for a duplicate title or a title transfer. The five-day notice of sale and the clean-truck rules are covered on the California page.
A border drayage tractor has lived in the crossing queue and carries it in the clutch, the brakes and the fifth wheel; a Navy-contract flatbed carries its life in the deck and the tie-downs. Shoot whatever did the work, cab and engine after it, and say which it was.
Six hundred bridges, none posted
California holds the federal numbers, 80,000 pounds, on the interstates and its own table on state roads, both on the California page. San Diego's own list is clean: 604 bridges inside the city, none with a load posting and five under fourteen feet, the lowest at thirteen feet one on Regents Road, so a drayage tractor never has to think about a sign.
Tell us where the truck is, down by San Ysidro, at the Tenth Avenue terminal or up in Miramar, and send photos and the title.