San Francisco is forty-seven square miles of city on the end of a peninsula, and its trucks work the streets rather than the highway. Nine in ten of the carriers based here work California only, three in four of their drivers stay within a hundred miles, and the median carrier reports just 15,000 miles a year on each power unit. After general freight, household goods, passengers, containers and garbage are what they declare.
So a San Francisco lot holds a moving van, a bus, a garbage truck, a day cab draying boxes off Pier 80, and the rare semi truck with a sleeper that an owner parks at home between runs. The one big fleet based in the city runs nearly three thousand power units, and the Pier 92 marine aggregate dock feeds the mixers.
Fell Street
The DMV field office at 1377 Fell Street is the one inside the city for a duplicate title or a title transfer. The five-day notice of sale, the lien and the clean-truck rules are covered on the California page.
A city truck ages in the brakes, the clutch and the body on the hills, and in the frame rails from the salt air. Get those close, then the cab and the engine, and tell us the route it ran.
Eight low bridges, none posted
California holds the federal 80,000 pounds on the interstates and its own axle table on state roads, both on the California page. San Francisco's own list is 135 bridges, none with a load posting and eight below fourteen feet, the lowest an I-80 structure at the bay at nine feet four, so a tandem box truck here watches the signs more than the scale.
Tell us where the truck is in San Francisco, out by Pier 80, downtown or on the west side, and send photos and the title.