Ports run at Louisville, Owensboro, Henderson and Hickman, with petroleum terminals at Hickman and liquid-bulk terminals at Catlettsburg, Covington and Henderson.
A Peterbilt day cab out of Louisville, a Western Star haul truck off a Harlan job, a Volvo sleeper running through Bowling Green or a Ford dually out of Lexington all get the same look: send photos and the details, we send an offer, and if you're happy we'll come to you, buy it remotely, or you can bring it to us.
Kentucky’s trucking industry is home to UPS Worldport in Louisville — one of the largest air cargo hubs in the world — and a major manufacturing corridor.
The rule the parkway sidesteps
Kentucky allows a ten per cent tolerance on its axle weight provisions to vehicles engaged exclusively in hauling crushed stone, fill dirt and rock, soil, bulk sand, coal, phosphate muck, asphalt, concrete, solid waste, tankage or animal residues, livestock, feed for livestock or poultry, and agricultural products — except on the interstate system. Every word of the exception is the road, not the load. A parkway is not on the interstate system, so the tolerance holds there; a bulk hauler in a city ringed by interstates gives it up on every limited-access route out. Grain and feed are on that list too, which is not incidental in a county with two flour mills in it. The larger coal-haul figure is a different network again. The Extended Weight Coal Haul Road System carries 90,000 lb on one steering axle plus two tandem axles with a five per cent tolerance, and it is a certified road list rather than a general allowance — the Transportation Cabinet builds it from where coal was actually reported hauled the previous year.
KRS 189.222(1)(c) and KRS 177.9771; Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Coal Haul Highway System.
A lost title has a counter replacement; where one never existed there is a bonded route. Kentucky brands on a flat percentage, which is the specific thing to know if a truck has been hit. The statute requires a salvage title when the cost of parts and labour to rebuild it to pre-accident condition and legal operation exceeds 75 per cent of retail value, and the cost of reinstalling a deployed airbag system is excluded from that calculation. Georgia, next door, runs a total-loss formula with no fixed figure — so the same damaged truck can brand on this side of the line and stay clean on that one. If the truck is sitting at a shop or a tow yard, the other clock matters: after 45 days with reasonable or agreed storage or towing charges unpaid, it may be sold to pay them.
KRS 186A.520 on branding, KRS 186A.195 on liens, and KRS ch. 376 on storage and towing.