Louisville moves freight for a living. Thirteen of every hundred jobs inside the city are in transportation and warehousing, more than twice the share in Nashville. The Ford truck plant yard, the Appliance Park ramp and the racks at Shively feed it.
So the Louisville truck is a driveaway tractor delivering what the plant builds, a car hauler, a machinery hauler and a tanker loading at Shively. A mixer comes off the Kosmos cement plant. A semi truck with a sleeper works the lanes out of the city, and the county clerk on East Liberty Street titles it.
Lost title in Louisville
Kentucky titles through the county clerk, and in Louisville that is the Jefferson County Clerk's elections center at 1000 East Liberty Street, which replaces a lost title and takes the title transfer.
A driveaway tractor has usually crossed the country once with no trailer behind it and shows almost nothing. A city truck shows its years in the body and the steps, a sleeper in the drivetrain. Photograph what did the work, and tell us what it did.
Weight limits in Louisville
The city's own bridge list is short, nine with a load posting, the lowest clearance where Second Street crosses the Ohio. The weight law a Louisville truck works under is Kentucky's, with the federal table beside it, and the Kentucky page carries both.
Tell us where the truck is in Louisville, out by Shively, near the plant or down by the river port, and send photos and the title.
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