Mississippi's trucks run between the river and the Gulf, and most of them are built to leave the state. In the census FMCSA published in October 2026, close to 12,400 carriers give a Mississippi address, and six in ten of them hold interstate authority; only about a quarter are private fleets. Close to three thousand carry logs, poles and lumber, more than two thousand carry machinery and large objects, two thousand carry grain, feed and hay, seventeen hundred carry metal, and twelve hundred carry dry bulk. Soybeans lead 33 counties and cotton ten in USDA's 2022 census, cattle 29. That is the log truck coming out of the piney woods toward the mills, the cotton module truck in October in the Delta, a soybean truck at harvest, a day cab draying boxes out of the Gulfport pier or the Jackson ramp at Richland, a semi truck with a sleeper on I-55, a dump truck loading at a gravel pit in Crystal Springs or Picayune, the tanker that filled at Collins, and the box truck a Hattiesburg business keeps for its own deliveries. We make an offer on any of them, and to sell my semi truck in Mississippi you send the year, make, model and VIN, photos from every side, a photo of the title, and the town.
A tolerance written around the errand
Mississippi Code section 63-5-33 gives two tiers above the ordinary gross. With a harvest permit, a tolerance of up to 10 percent over the authorized gross, tandem or axle weight, to a ceiling of 88,000 pounds; without one, up to 5 percent, to 80,000 pounds plus not more than 2 percent, and sand and gravel are the first commodities the section names. Section 63-5-27 carries the axle weights and lets local authorities post lower limits, and on the interstates the federal 80,000 pounds and the bridge formula govern, which is why the same truck with the same load is inside the allowance on one errand and outside it on another.
A gravel truck that ran the tolerance out of a Copiah County pit, a log truck at the harvest figure, a five-axle semi truck at the federal 80,000 and a pickup that was never weighed are the same conversation with us. Whether a given road carried a prohibition could be settled at three separate levels of government, and that was the carrier's concern while the truck worked; it is not ours when we buy it.
The county tax collector, three to four weeks
Mississippi titles through the Department of Revenue, and the application goes in at the county tax collector's office; the DOR says a standard title is issued within three to four weeks of its arriving, unless more paperwork is needed. The collectors in the bigger towns: Hinds County at 316 President Street in Jackson, Harrison County at 1801 23rd Avenue in Gulfport and 730 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Biloxi, DeSoto County at 8525 Highway 51 North in Southaven and 6597 B J Chain Drive in Olive Branch, Forrest County at 601 Main Street in Hattiesburg, Lauderdale County at 500 Constitution Avenue in Meridian, Lee County at 201 West Jefferson Street in Tupelo, Jackson County at 2915 Canty Street in Pascagoula, Lowndes County at 1121 Main Street in Columbus, Warren County at 1009 Cherry Street in Vicksburg and Washington County at 900 Washington Avenue in Greenville. A lost title is replaced there; a lien is cleared first, and the lender's payoff letter is the slow part.
On a damaged truck the state treats the vehicle as a total loss when repair cost equals or exceeds 75 percent of actual cash value, and a repaired salvage vehicle passes an inspection at a designated station under the Department of Public Safety's Salvage Inspection Division before a rebuilt title issues; a rebuilt title is fine by us, and the brand is a fact about the paperwork to mention when you write. The rest of the Mississippi map: the ports at Gulfport, Pascagoula, Vicksburg, Greenville and Rosedale and the river terminals at Natchez and Fulton, 24 racks from Pascagoula and Collins to Meridian and Greenville, 18 industrial-mineral pits and 43 sand and gravel pits, the Nissan auto-loading yards at Canton and Gluckstadt, and 38 rail yards from Meridian and Jackson to Corinth, Tupelo and Columbus. Keesler, Columbus Air Force Base, Camp Shelby, Meridian Naval Air Station and the Stennis center run military fleets. Tell us whether we should come for the truck, buy it from where it sits, or expect you to bring it in: 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.