Maine's trucks haul wood, potatoes and fuel, and four in five of them stay inside the state. In the census FMCSA published in October 2026, close to 8,900 carriers give a Maine address, eight in ten registered for in-state work only and more than half private fleets. More than two and a half thousand carry machinery and large objects, close to two and a half thousand carry logs, poles and lumber, nine hundred carry farm supplies, nine hundred carry motor vehicles, and more than six hundred carry fresh produce. Milk leads eight of the sixteen counties in USDA's 2022 census and cattle five. So the Maine truck is the log truck coming down out of the North Woods to Millinocket or Old Town, the potato truck at harvest in Aroostook, a chip van on the mill run, the milk tanker on a Kennebec County road, a semi truck with a sleeper on I-95 between Kittery and Houlton, the tanker that filled at South Portland, a dump truck loading at the Topsham pit or the Wells quarry at North Berwick, and the box truck a Lewiston business keeps for its own deliveries. We would make an offer on any one of them. To sell my semi truck in Maine, write to us with the year, make, model and VIN, photos of every side, the title in a photo, and the town it sits in.
One hundred thousand pounds, on six axles
Under 29-A M.R.S. section 2354 a three-axle tractor with a tri-axle semitrailer, six axles, with the extreme axles excluding the steering axle at least 36 feet apart, may run up to 100,000 pounds, with the tandem held to 41,000 and the tri-axle to 50,000; the subsection says it does not apply on the Interstate Highway System, where 23 U.S.C. 127(a)(11) lets Maine's own weight law stand in place of the federal 80,000 pounds that applies in most of the country. Two cautions belong with the 100,000: it is for that six-axle configuration, and a posted bridge or a spring-posted road takes it back.
A six-axle log truck that ran at 100,000, a tandem dump truck at the ordinary figures, a heavy-haul tractor on permits and a pickup that never saw a scale are four trucks and one conversation with us. What the truck was built to carry is a fact for the description; it does not change the process.
The MVT-2 at a branch or the town office
Maine titles through the Bureau of Motor Vehicles in the Secretary of State's department. A title application is form MVT-2, picked up at any motor vehicle branch or town office or from the Title Unit in Augusta; the branches are at 19 Anthony Avenue in Augusta, 125 Presumpscot Street in Portland, 200 Expedition Drive in Scarborough, 36 Mollison Way in Lewiston, 396 Griffin Road in Bangor and 14 Access Highway in Caribou, with thirteen in all. A duplicate title is a different route: online through the state's duplicate title service, or by mail on form MVT-8 to the Division of Title Services at 29 State House Station in Augusta. Put in for it and write to us in the same week; a lien comes off first.
If your truck carries a brand, tell us and we check it against your actual title rather than a general explainer; recyclers and salvage dealers in this state have a 30-day duty to report a vehicle's destruction to the Secretary of State, so a truck that was reported is a truck that was scrapped, and yours was not. The rest of the state's work: Searsport and the South Portland terminals fill the tankers, with racks at Bucksport, Brewer and Hampden, the granite comes out of Crotch Island and North Berwick, 41 sand and gravel pits run from Alfred and Gray to Milo and Bar Harbor, and the 25 rail yards run from Rigby in South Portland to Northern Maine Junction at Hampden, Brownville Junction, Millinocket, Presque Isle and Vanceboro. Bangor, Cutler and the Guard sites at Augusta, Auburn and Bethel keep military trucks. Name the truck, 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, and say whether it should be collected, bought where it stands, or driven down to us.
Neighboring states
Maine shares a border with one state.