Tampa is Florida's fuel port and its west-coast freight town. Thirteen fuel terminals sit in Hillsborough County, many of them inside the city at Port Tampa and Ybor. The container and roll-on berths at Hooker's Point put the boxes and cars on the road, and the Port Tampa, Uceta and Yeoman yards handle the rail. Four in five of the 6,506 active carriers with at least one truck based here in FMCSA's November 2026 census work Florida only.
After general freight the cargoes its carriers declare most are motor vehicles, steel coil and machinery. So a Tampa yard holds a car hauler, a fuel tanker off the Port Tampa racks, a day cab draying boxes off Hooker's Point and a flatbed with steel coil. The semi truck with a sleeper works the interstates, and the Tampa cement grinding plant puts a mixer on the roads.
Lost title in Tampa
Hillsborough County runs four motor vehicle service centers inside the city. They are downtown at 601 East Kennedy Boulevard on the fourteenth floor of the County Center and Drew Park at 4100 West Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. North Tampa is at 3011 University Center Drive and Westshore at 1701 North Westshore Boulevard. Any of them issues a duplicate title or records a title transfer for a Tampa truck.
Salt air and stop-and-go are the Tampa wear: frame rails, brake lines and electrical connectors come before the odometer. Photograph those first, then the cab and the engine, and tell us whether the truck worked the port, the racks or the highway.
Weight limits in Tampa
Tampa's own list is 352 bridges inside the city, thirteen posted for load and six below fourteen feet, the lowest a rail structure at the port that no truck uses. A tandem dump truck on the causeways reads the postings, and a port tractor reads the scale. What Florida allows on its own roads, and the federal table on the interstates, is set out on the Florida page, not on this Tampa page.
Tell us where the truck is in Tampa, by the port, out at Drew Park or up by North Tampa, and send photos and the title.
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