New Orleans has more water than land inside its line, and the trucks work the edge between them. Containers come off at the Napoleon Avenue terminal, cars roll off at the Nashville Avenue wharf, and the Public Belt's yards along the river put the rest on rail. Fewer than seven hundred carriers give a city address, and most of their drivers stay inside a hundred miles.
So the New Orleans semi truck is a day cab draying boxes off Napoleon Avenue more often than a sleeper, and behind it a car hauler, a steel hauler with coil racks, a log truck coming in from the parishes, a roll-off, a dump truck on a city job, a reefer on a restaurant route, a bus.
Veterans Boulevard, Bullard Avenue and the tag agents
The Office of Motor Vehicles has two offices in the city, 100 Veterans Boulevard and 7500 Bullard Avenue in the East, and the public tag agents at 231 North Carrollton Avenue in Mid-City, 6227 South Claiborne Avenue Uptown and 9954 Lake Forest Boulevard do the same title work for their own fee, a lost title included. The lien and the brand are on the Louisiana page.
A New Orleans truck has lived with humidity, salt air and streets that are hard on suspensions, so the frame rails, the springs and the cab corners tell its story before the odometer does. Photograph them with the cab, the engine and the body, and tell us the work it did.
Twenty-seven posted bridges and Claiborne Avenue
Louisiana writes a higher figure for a tridem rig on the state highways than the federal 80,000 pounds, and the Louisiana page has it with the cane permit. New Orleans' own fact is the bridge list: 27 bridges inside the city carry a load posting and eight sit under fourteen feet, the lowest where Louisiana 39 crosses the Public Belt tracks at Claiborne Avenue. A tridem gravel hauler and a service truck that never weighed in get the same offer.
Tell us whether the truck is Uptown near the wharves, in the East or across the river, send the photos and a photo of the title, and say whether we come for it, buy it from where it sits or you bring it in.