Baton Rouge is a chemical town with a construction boom on top of it. Nearly one job in twelve inside the city is in construction, three times the manufacturing share, and the plants along the river at Port Allen and Brusly send out the chemical and fuel tankers that are the city's signature. The three rail yards across the river at Port Allen put the rest on track.
A Baton Rouge yard holds a chemical tanker, a steel hauler with coil racks, a mixer, a log truck in from the piney woods, a dump truck from the Watson gravel pits, a garbage truck, and the sleeper-cab semi truck that runs the interstate lanes out of town.
Independence Boulevard and the tag agents
The Office of Motor Vehicles at 7701 Independence Boulevard issues a replacement title and records the transfer, and the public tag agents along Florida Boulevard, Perkins Road and Coursey Boulevard do the same title work for their own fee. Lien releases and branded titles follow the rules on the Louisiana page.
A chemical tanker is read through its barrel, valves and pump, a mixer through its drum and chute. Picture them, the cab and the motor as well, and name which plant or which pour it worked.
Forty posted bridges and the Florida Boulevard underpass
Louisiana lets a tridem rig run heavier on state highways than the federal table's 80,000 pounds allows, as the Louisiana page explains, and Baton Rouge adds forty bridges carrying a load posting inside the city, longer than New Orleans's, with four clearances under fourteen feet, the lowest at thirteen feet eleven where US 61 crosses Florida Boulevard.
Tell us where the truck is, by the plants at Port Allen, out toward Watson or in a yard off Florida Boulevard, and send photos and the title.