Kansas trucks haul wheat, cattle and the machinery that works both. In FMCSA's October 2026 census, a little over 19,000 carriers give a Kansas address, more than half of them registered for in-state work only, and a little over half are private fleets, which is the mark of a farm state that trucks its own product. More than five thousand carry machinery and large objects, close to five thousand carry grain, feed and hay, three thousand carry farm supplies, two thousand carry livestock, and a thousand carry oilfield equipment. Cattle lead 53 counties, corn 26 and wheat 19 in USDA's 2022 census. So the Kansas truck is the wheat truck in June, a cattle pot on the way to a Dodge City feedyard, the heavy-haul tractor moving a combine between fields, a winch truck on a lease road near El Dorado, a semi truck with a sleeper on I-70, the day cab draying containers out of Logistics Park at Edgerton, a dump truck loading at the Johnson County quarries in Olathe or the Hutchinson sand plant, and the pickup every outfit in the state runs. We buy all of them, and the way to sell my semi truck in Kansas is a message with the year, make, model and VIN, photos all round, a photo of the title and the town.
Ninety thousand pounds, six axles, and not on the interstate
On I-70, I-35 and I-135 the federal numbers hold: 80,000 pounds gross, 20,000 on a single axle, 34,000 on a tandem and the bridge formula between. Off the interstate Kansas writes a special annual agricultural permit that allows 90,000 pounds with a minimum of six axles. The truck must be registered for 85,500 pounds, 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 for further processing and farm products.
Two things follow for a seller. A five-axle combination gets nothing from the permit however it is loaded, so the axle count on the truck is part of whether the permit was ever worth anything to its owner, and a six-axle grain rig that ran at 90,000 all harvest is a different truck from a tandem dump truck that stayed at the state figures. To us they are two trucks and one process: tell us what it is, send the photos, and an offer comes back.
Three title classes, two counters
Kansas titles through the county treasurer: the Division of Vehicles says the 105 county treasurers process vehicle titles, and the application is made where the vehicle is garaged. The offices in the bigger towns: Sedgwick County at 200 West Murdock in Wichita with substations on North Woodlawn and North Maize Road, Shawnee County at 200 SE 7th Street in Topeka, Johnson County's Olathe office at 782 North Ridgeview Road, Wyandotte County at 710 North 7th Street in Kansas City, Douglas County at 1100 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, Riley County at 110 Courthouse Plaza in Manhattan, Saline County at 300 West Ash in Salina, Reno County at 125 West 1st Avenue in Hutchinson, Finney County at 311 North 9th in Garden City, Ford County at 100 Gunsmoke in Dodge City and Seward County at 515 North Washington in Liberal. A lost title is replaced at that counter.
The state has three title classes and one of them says nothing about damage. A nonhighway title covers a truck that sat unregistered and uninsured; once it is insured and inspected it is retitled formerly nonhighway, which is a different brand from rebuilt salvage, and getting back to a road title takes two counters: a Kansas Highway Patrol inspection station issues form MVE-1, and then the county treasurer's motor vehicle office issues the title. If yours has been sitting, that distinction is worth having straight, and a brand of any kind is one line in your first message to us. Around the state: 31 racks from Salina, Hutchinson and McPherson to Kechi and Roeland Park fill the tankers, cement comes out of Chanute and Humboldt, salt from the Hutchinson, Lyons and Kanopolis mines, stone from 40 quarries, and the 63 rail yards run from Argentine and Armstrong in Kansas City to Wellington, Goodland, Coffeyville and Parsons. McConnell, Fort Riley, Fort Leavenworth and Forbes Field run military fleets of their own. 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: tell us which, and whether to come for it, buy it where it sits, or expect you to bring it in.