Cattle lead 45 of Colorado's 63 counties in USDA's 2022 census, corn six, wheat three, horses three and barley two, and the trucks follow the cattle and the mountains. In the census FMCSA published in October 2026, close to 50,000 carriers give a Colorado address, and more than four in five are registered for in-state work only, with half of them private fleets. Ten thousand carry machinery and large objects, six thousand carry grain, feed and hay, six thousand carry logs, poles and lumber, five thousand carry motor vehicles, five thousand carry farm supplies, and close to three thousand carry livestock. That is a cattle hauler on the eastern plains, a heavy-haul tractor moving a dozer up I-70, the semi truck pulling a gravel train out of one of 91 sand and gravel pits in the towns our data covers, a log truck on the Western Slope, a coal truck out of the West Elk mine at Somerset, the ore truck at the Henderson and Climax mines, a dump truck loading at Morrison or Canon City, and the pickup or flatbed a private fleet runs for its own work. We make an offer on every one of them.
Eighty-five thousand, off the interstate
Colorado writes two ceilings. On the interstate the federal bridge formula caps a truck at 80,000 pounds; on every other state highway section 42-4-508 uses its own formula, a thousand pounds for every foot between the first and last axle plus forty thousand, capped at 85,000. The axles go the same way under section 42-4-507: 20,000 on a single, and on a tandem 36,000 on the interstate and 40,000 off it, with another two thousand pounds of gross for a truck running on an alternative fuel.
The chain law sits in another part of the code and this page does not carry it. The state's salvage rule is physical rather than paper, a quarter-inch Rebuilt From Salvage brand stamped into the vehicle itself, so if yours carries one, say so when you write. Colorado also adopted the Advanced Clean Trucks rule for manufacturers, from model year 2027, and it has been under challenge since Congress repealed the federal waivers behind it in June 2025; it asks nothing of the owner of a truck already working.
The county office and the title
Titles in Colorado go through the county motor vehicle offices, which act as the state's agents, so a duplicate is ordered at the county: in Denver at 2855 Tremont Street, 4685 Peoria Street, 3698 West 44th Avenue, 2243 South Monaco Parkway and 3100 South Sheridan Boulevard; in Aurora at 490 South Chambers Road for Arapahoe County and 3449 North Chambers Road for Adams; in Colorado Springs at 1675 West Garden of the Gods Road, 5650 Industrial Place and 8830 North Union Boulevard; in Lakewood at 2099 Wadsworth Boulevard; in Fort Collins at 200 West Oak Street; in Greeley at 1250 H Street; in Pueblo at 215 West 10th Street; in Grand Junction at 200 South Spruce Street. Start the duplicate, then write to us. A lien is paid off first, so get the lender's figure early.
Where the trucks are: containers go onto rail at Denver and Irondale, the racks at Denver, Commerce City, Aurora, Colorado Springs, Fountain, Pueblo, La Junta, Fruita and Grand Junction fill the tankers, and cement comes out of Florence, Lyons and Pueblo. Stone comes from the quarries at Morrison, Canon City, Golden and Floyd Hill, sandstone from Lyons, Loveland, Laporte and Berthoud, marble from the Pride of America mine at Marble, and the coal from Trapper at Craig, Deserado at Rangely, West Elk at Somerset and King II near Durango. The 25 rail yards run from Denver's north side and Pueblo to Grand Junction, La Junta, Trinidad, Steamboat Springs and the mine yards at Somerset. Fort Carson, Peterson, Schriever and Buckley, the Air Force Academy, Cheyenne Mountain, the Pueblo chemical depot and the Pinon Canyon maneuver site keep military fleets. Tell us the town and whether you'd like us to come for it, buy it from where it sits, or have you bring it in. Year, make, model and VIN, photos all round, a photo of the title: that is the first message for a sleeper, day cab, heavy-haul tractor, dump truck, roll-off, mixer, garbage truck, wrecker or rotator, log truck, tanker, boom or crane truck, box truck, straight truck, utility truck, pickup or dually, and an offer comes back to it.