Honolulu runs short miles. Nine in ten of the carriers with a Honolulu address work in-state only, which on Oahu means the island, and the median carrier reports 9,000 miles a year on each power unit. Honolulu Harbor and the military installations from Camp Smith to Schofield are the city's whole freight map, and it is enough.
So the Honolulu semi truck is a day cab draying containers off the Sand Island piers more often than anything with a sleeper, and beside it a bus, a garbage truck, a reefer on a grocery route, a tanker loading at Sand Island, a tandem dump truck out of the Halawa quarry, a moving van, a flatbed with lumber or steel for a jobsite.
Four satellite city halls, and no state DMV
Hawaii has no statewide motor vehicle department, so a Honolulu title is issued by the City and County's Department of Customer Services at its satellite city halls: Downtown at 1041 Nuuanu Avenue, Ala Moana at 1450 Ala Moana Boulevard, Kapalama at 925 Dillingham Boulevard and Hawaii Kai at 6600 Kalanianaole Highway, any of which replaces a lost title and takes the title transfer. The other islands' counters and the lien are on the Hawaii page.
An island truck has lived in salt air on short runs and shows it in the frame rails, the crossmembers, the electrical connectors and the cab corners before the odometer says anything. Photograph those with the cab, the engine and the body, and tell us the route it worked.
Twenty thousand on an axle, on every road alike
Hawaii's weight law reads the same on every road in the state, with no interstate split, and lands at the federal 80,000 pounds in the two-tandem case; the Hawaii page has the section. Honolulu's own fact is that the inventory counts only thirteen bridges inside the city and seven of them carry a load posting, so a container rig off the piers reads more signs than its mileage would suggest.
Say whether the truck is by the harbor at Sand Island, out toward Kapolei or up in the valleys, send the photos and a photo of the title, and say whether we should come for it, buy it where it sits or expect you to bring it to the pier.