Des Moines sits in the middle of the corn. Polk County's farms planted close to eighty thousand acres of it in USDA's last census, so every grain hopper is on the road in October. The trucks follow the calendar, quiet in July and busy in the fall. One big fleet with a city address runs everywhere, which is why the city's interstate drivers outnumber its local ones two to one.
Between harvests the Des Moines truck is a car hauler, a reefer, a sand hauler out of the Saylorville pits and a tanker off the Pleasant Hill racks. A tandem dump truck works a city job. A semi truck with a sleeper in the big fleet is the one most people picture, and the county treasurer titles it like any other.
Lost title in Des Moines
Iowa titles at the county treasurer's office, not a state DMV. A Des Moines truck's lost title is replaced at the Polk County treasurer's counter, and the title transfer goes through the same window.
A fleet sleeper out of Des Moines has usually been on a maintenance schedule and shows it in the records. A grain truck shows its years in the box and the hoist. Send what records you have with the photos, and tell us the work it did around Des Moines.
Weight limits in Des Moines
The Des Moines part is the county system out of town. A grain truck that worked it all its life was routed around every posting, and a tandem that never left the paved roads was not. Neither fact changes the sale. Beyond the city's own structures, a Des Moines truck answers to Iowa's figures and the federal table, and both are on the Iowa page.
Tell us where the truck is in Des Moines, near Saylorville, out by the airport or in a yard off Hull Avenue, and send photos and the title.
The nearest city pages to Des Moines are Cedar Rapids, IA, Omaha, NE and Lincoln, NE.