Grand Rapids makes furniture and milks cows. One job in eight inside the city is in a plant, and milk leads Kent County's farm products with corn and hogs behind it, so a Grand Rapids yard mixes box trucks and machinery haulers with milk tankers and produce reefers. Seven in ten of the carriers based here stay inside Michigan.
Add a car hauler, a garbage truck, a flatbed with lumber, a dump truck from the Lowell or Rockford pits, and the semi truck that pulls a sleeper down the highway or across to Detroit, and that is the Grand Rapids fleet; the Hughart and Waverly yards put the rest on rail.
28th Street and Plainfield Avenue
Two Secretary of State branches in the city, 3601 28th Street SE and 3472 Plainfield Avenue NE, replace a lost title across the counter and record the title transfer. Liens and the scrap brand follow the rules on the Michigan page.
A furniture box truck is read through its box, liftgate and door seals; a milk tanker through its barrel and pump. Photograph those first, then the cab and the engine after the salted winters, and tell us the run it made.
One posted bridge and M-37 over the college road
Michigan's eleven-axle rulebook and its spring thaw, set out on the Michigan page beside the federal table of 80,000 pounds, reach Grand Rapids like everywhere else; the city's own inventory is 134 bridges, one posted and two below fourteen feet, the lowest at twelve feet eleven where southbound M-37 crosses the service road at the college.
Tell us the lot, on the south side by 28th Street, up Plainfield or out by the rail yards, and send photos and the title.