Maryland's trucking runs through one port. Vehicles roll on and off at five Port of Baltimore terminals, South Locust Point, Dundalk, Fairfield and Masonville, Atlantic and Chesapeake, containers go onto rail at Seagirt and at the Baltimore ramp, and the autoload yards at Dundalk and Fairfield are where the car haulers queue. In the census FMCSA published in October 2026, close to 43,000 carriers give a Maryland address, six in ten registered for in-state work only and a little over half of them private fleets. Six and a half thousand carry machinery and large objects, five and a half thousand carry garbage, five thousand carry motor vehicles, five thousand carry logs, poles and lumber, four thousand carry household goods, and three thousand are in the driveaway and towaway trade. Read it as trucks: the day cab semi truck draying boxes out of Seagirt, the car hauler leaving Dundalk, a garbage truck on a county contract, a moving van out of Columbia, the heavy-haul tractor moving an excavator around the Beltway, a tri-axle dump truck loading at Cockeysville or Frederick, and the box truck a private fleet bought to deliver its own goods.
Inland the work is stone, coal and corn. Cement comes out of Union Bridge and Hagerstown, and there are nineteen crushed-stone quarries in the towns our data covers, Cockeysville, Frederick, Rockville, Havre de Grace, Elkton, New Windsor, Woodsboro, Boonsboro and Pinesburg among them, with sand pits from Waldorf and Brandywine to Charlestown, Federalsburg and Galena. The coal mines sit out in Garrett and Allegany counties around Lonaconing, Barton, Midland and Luke, with the Mettiki preparation plant at Gorman. The racks at Baltimore, Curtis Bay, Salisbury and Piney Point fill the tankers, and the 34 rail yards run from Bayview, Curtis Bay, Mount Clare and Penn Mary in Baltimore to Brunswick, Hagerstown and Cumberland. Then the military, 27 installations in our data: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Fort Meade, Joint Base Andrews, Fort Detrick at Frederick, Indian Head, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Bethesda and Patuxent's Webster Field, each with trucks of its own. Corn is the top farm product in fifteen of the 23 counties in USDA's 2022 census, soybeans in four, and cattle and milk in two each, so the grain truck and the milk tanker belong here too. Tell us which town, and whether you want it collected, bought from a distance, or driven in.
Fifty-five, sixty-six, eighty
Maryland's table under Transportation section 24-109 runs 55,000 pounds on three or fewer axles, 66,000 on four and 80,000 on five, with 22,400 on a single axle for a truck registered at 73,000 pounds or less and 20,000 above that under section 24-108, and 34,000 on each of two tandems set 36 feet apart. Under COMAR 11.04.02 a hauling permit goes to 120,000 pounds without an engineering review, to 150,000 on roads that qualify, and above 150,000 only after one.
On emissions, the state adopted the Advanced Clean Trucks rule for manufacturers from model year 2027, then Executive Order 01.01.2025.10 pushed it to at least 2028, and to 2029 if the state had not published a needs assessment by December 2025; the rule is also under challenge since Congress repealed the federal waivers behind it in June 2025. None of that puts a deadline on a diesel already on the road. A four-axle truck that lived at 66,000, a five-axle semi truck at the cap, a heavy-haul tractor on permits and a utility truck that never saw a scale are the same truck to us.
The MVA and the title
A lost title is replaced online, at an MVA branch or by mail: in Baltimore at 5425 Reisterstown Road, in Glen Burnie at 6601 Ritchie Highway, in Annapolis at 160 Harry S. Truman Parkway, in Columbia at 6490 Dobbin Road, in Frederick at 1601 Bowmans Farm Road, in Hagerstown at 18306 Colonel Henry K. Douglas Drive, in Salisbury at 251 Tilghman Road, in Waldorf at 11 Industrial Park Drive.
Put the duplicate in, then send us the truck. The lender's payoff comes before anything else. If the title carries a salvage brand, say so in the first message and we go on from there. That message is the year, make, model and VIN, a set of photos, a photo of the title, and the town, for a 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 alike, and an offer follows it.
Neighboring states
Maryland shares a border with five states.
Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington DC and West Virginia.