Minneapolis carries people as much as freight. After general freight, the biggest single cargo its carriers declare is passengers, more than six hundred of them, ahead of refrigerated food and paper. On 54 square miles of land it is a city the trucks come into rather than one they are based in.
So the Minneapolis truck is a bus, a reefer on a grocery route, a beverage truck, a moving van, a day cab draying boxes off Shoreham Yard, a garbage truck or a roll-off, a grain truck off the county's soybean ground. A semi truck with a sleeper heads out of the Twin Cities on the long lanes, and a deputy registrar downtown titles it when it is sold.
Three deputy registrars inside the city
A lost title is replaced through Driver and Vehicle Services, and any deputy registrar takes title work; Minneapolis has three, at 300 South 6th Street downtown, 2929 Chicago Avenue South at Midtown and 1001 Plymouth Avenue North. The lien and the prior-salvage brand are on the Minnesota page.
A Minneapolis truck has lived through the winters, and the frame rails, the crossmembers, the brake lines and the cab corners tell that story before the odometer does. Photograph them with the cab, the engine and the body, and tell us the route it worked.
Seventeen posted bridges, and the calendar
Minnesota's weight law has a calendar in it, ten percent up in winter and five tons an axle on the gravel roads in spring, around the federal 80,000 pounds, and the Minnesota page has the dates. Minneapolis's own fact is seventeen bridges with a load posting and only two under fourteen feet, the lowest on County Road 5 over West River Road. A grain truck that ran the winter increase and a dump truck posted off the gravel in April are the same truck to us.
Say whether the truck is on the north side near Shoreham, downtown or down by Midtown, send the photos and a photo of the title, and say whether you want it collected, bought where it sits or you would rather bring it in.