Kansas moves grain and materials on a dense rail network. Cement plants work at Chanute and Humboldt, liquid-bulk terminals at Kansas City, Lansing and South Hutchinson, an intermodal ramp at Edgerton, and rail yards at Kansas City, Topeka, Salina and Wichita.
A Kenworth day cab out of Wichita, a Freightliner sleeper off a Salina run, a Mack dump truck near Topeka or a Ram dually out of Dodge City go through the same steps: send us photos and the particulars, we come back with an offer, and if you like it we can come to you, buy it remotely, or you can drive it to us.
Kansas’s trucking industry is centrally located at the crossroads of I-70 and I-35, making it one of the most important freight states in the Midwest.
Ninety thousand pounds, six axles, and not on the interstate
The special annual agricultural permit allows a maximum of 90,000 lb with a minimum of six axles, and it cannot be operated on the interstate. The vehicle must be registered for 85,500 lb, and above that figure it may carry only a closed list — agricultural inputs, farm supplies, biofuels, feed, raw or processed agricultural commodities, livestock, raw meat intended for further processing, or farm products. Two things follow for a seller. A five-axle combination gets nothing from it however it is loaded, so the truck’s own axle count is part of whether the permit is worth anything.
Kansas special annual agricultural permit; 23 U.S.C. § 127.
Three title classes, and one is not about damage at all
A nonhighway title is not a salvage title and says nothing about damage. A truck that has sat unregistered and uninsured can be carried on one without ever having been hurt, and once it is insured and inspected it is retitled formerly nonhighway — a different brand from rebuilt salvage. One is a truck that was damaged and repaired. If yours has been sitting, that distinction is worth having straight before anyone reads the title. Getting back to a road title takes two counters, and this is the step people get wrong: a Kansas Highway Patrol inspection station issues form MVE-1, and then the county treasurer’s motor vehicle office issues the title. Going to one and not the other is the common mistake.
K.S.A. §§ 8-197, 8-198 and 8-135c; Kansas Department of Revenue form TR-13.