Massachusetts is a state of private fleets. In the census FMCSA published in October 2026, a little over 31,000 carriers give a Massachusetts address, and six in ten of them are private fleets hauling their own goods, with nearly two in three registered for in-state work only. Four and a half thousand carry machinery and large objects, three and a half thousand carry logs, poles and lumber, three thousand carry garbage, three thousand are utility fleets, and two and a half thousand carry motor vehicles. The truck that comes out of those numbers is a day cab semi truck on the Pike between Worcester and the Boston terminals, a roll-off on a Quincy route, a bucket truck for the power company, the car hauler loading at the automotive gateway in East Brookfield, a tri-axle dump truck out of the Swampscott or Wrentham quarries, a landscaper's dually, and the box truck a Lowell business runs for its own deliveries. We make an offer on every one of them.
Fifteen days on a duplicate
The title comes first, and Massachusetts has a rule on duplicates worth knowing before you order one: under chapter 90D, section 14, the Registry will not issue a new title to a buyer on a duplicate until fifteen days after the application for it, so the day the duplicate goes in is the day that clock starts, and it runs beside the sale rather than after it.
The RMV service centers take the application: in Boston at 136 Blackstone Street at Haymarket, in Worcester at 50 Southwest Cutoff, in Springfield at 1250 St. James Avenue, in Lowell at 77 Middlesex Street, in New Bedford at 212 Theodore H. Rice Boulevard, in Brockton at 490 Forest Avenue. A truck old enough never to have had a title is bonded into one. If a lender is on the title, the payoff figure is the piece to start early. A truck the state has called a total loss is still a truck we buy; say so when you write.
Forty-six thousand on two axles
Under chapter 90, section 19A, a truck of three or more axles runs a public way at up to 80,000 pounds without a permit, and a two-axle truck at up to 46,000, which is the number that matters to the trucks that do local delivery, refuse, dump and utility work and never see the interstate. The catch is one line further down: no axle may carry more than 22,400 pounds, and where axles sit less than six feet apart that drops to 18,000. New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and New Hampshire all write the same 22,400 against the federal 20,000, so the single-axle figure is a regional habit; the short-spacing cut is the Massachusetts part. The state inspection has one more wrinkle: the federal regulator accepts it as equivalent to the annual federal inspection, so a commercial truck or trailer that passes it needs no separate federal one. The Commonwealth has also adopted California's Advanced Clean Trucks rule for manufacturers; it asks nothing of the owner of a truck already on the road, and the federal waiver it leans on was disapproved by Congress in June 2025.
Where the trucks work: vehicles roll on and off at the Boston Autoport in Chelsea, containers go onto rail at Worcester, West Springfield and the Devens ramp at Ayer, and the carload freight moves through 36 rail yards, Readville, Beacon Park, Framingham, Palmer, Pittsfield and the Fore River yard at Quincy among them. The racks at Chelsea, Everett, Revere, East Boston, Quincy, Braintree, Springfield, Sandwich, New Bedford and out on Nantucket fill the tankers. Stone comes out of 22 crushed-stone quarries in the towns our data covers, Hudson, Peabody, Rutland, West Springfield, Wrentham, Swampscott, West Roxbury, Wilmington, Oxford and Taunton among them, granite is cut at Chelmsford, Chester and Weymouth, and there are 28 sand and gravel pits from Walpole and Bridgewater to Westfield, Pittsfield and Rockport. Hanscom, Westover at Chicopee, Joint Base Cape Cod, the Army's soldier center at Natick and Camp Curtis Guild at Reading keep military fleets. Milk is the top farm product in seven of the fourteen counties in USDA's 2022 census, hogs in two, and tobacco, alpacas, cut flowers and foliage plants in one each, so the milk tanker and the livestock trailer are on the list too. Tell us the town the truck is in and whether you'd like us to come for it, buy it from where it sits, or have you bring it to us.
What to send: year, make, model and VIN, photos all the way round, a photo of the title, and the town. 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: that one message is the start of it, and an offer is what comes back.
Neighboring states
Massachusetts shares a border with five states.
Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.