Missouri's trucks work two rivers and the roads between them. In the census FMCSA published in October 2026, a little over 26,000 carriers give a Missouri address. More than half hold interstate authority, which is what Kansas City and St. Louis do to a state, and about four in ten are private fleets hauling their own goods. Five thousand of them carry machinery and large objects, five thousand carry grain, feed and hay, close to four thousand carry farm supplies, three and a half thousand carry dry bulk, three thousand carry logs, poles and lumber, and sixteen hundred carry livestock. Cattle are the top farm product in 47 of the 114 counties in USDA's 2022 census, soybeans in 35, corn in 19 and hogs in eleven. That is a cattle hauler on a Springfield road, the grain truck at harvest in the Bootheel, a semi truck with a sleeper on I-70 between the two cities, a heavy-haul tractor moving a dozer out of Fort Leonard Wood, the tri-axle dump truck loading at one of 126 crushed-stone quarries, a lead truck out of the Viburnum mines, and the box truck a private fleet runs on its own deliveries. We'd make an offer on any of them.
Two thousand pounds, off the interstate
Missouri sets 80,000 pounds gross, 20,000 on a single axle and 34,000 on a tandem under section 304.180, and then does something few states do: off the interstate system, any truck may go over the single-axle, tandem and gross limits by up to two thousand pounds, and the allowance names no commodity at all. The commodity allowances sit above that and all stop at the interstate: grain and grain products may run ten percent over at harvest, milk and livestock may reach 85,500 pounds, and local log trucks go higher still. Natural-gas trucks get the weight of their tanks over a diesel's, to 82,000. The fine runs by the pound on a rising scale, two cents a pound for the first five hundred, five cents to a thousand, ten cents above that, and the truck carries on and gets a bill rather than stopping where it stands. A two-axle semi truck at 36,000 on its tandem on a state route, a grain truck ten percent over in October, a heavy-haul tractor on permits, a pickup that never weighed in: the same offer, reached the same way.
Where the trucks sit: barges load at St. Louis, at the county ports along the river at Hillsboro, Ozora and Dutchtown, in the Bootheel at Hayti and New Madrid, and on the Missouri at New Bloomfield. Containers go onto rail at Kansas City, at the International Freight Gateway in Grandview, and in St. Louis at Lindenwood and the north side ramp. Cement comes out of Cape Girardeau, Crystal City, Ste. Genevieve, Sugar Creek and Hannibal, stone out of quarries at Columbia, Carthage, Marshall, Boonville, Sedalia, Rolla, Harrisonville, Raytown and the string of them down Highway 21 around Pevely, and the lead belt's mines sit at Viburnum, Bunker, Centerville and Fredericktown. Missouri Red granite is cut at Ironton and marble at Ash Grove. The racks at St. Louis, Lemay, Sugar Creek, Raytown, Kearney, Cape Girardeau, Jefferson City, Columbia, Springfield, Carthage, Palmyra, Canton and Dexter fill the tankers, and the 54 rail yards run from Neff and Knoche in Kansas City to the Wentzville General Motors yard, St. Joseph, Springfield, Poplar Bluff and Carthage. Whiteman Air Force Base, Fort Leonard Wood and the Lake City ammunition plant at Independence keep military fleets. Tell us the town and we'll settle whether we drive out, buy it from where you are, or you bring it over.
The license office and the title
A lost Missouri title is replaced through the Department of Revenue, and the license offices take the application: in Kansas City at 1161 Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard and 6400 North Cosby Avenue in Parkville; in St. Louis at 1208 Washington Avenue downtown, 4628 South Kingshighway, 9652 Olive Boulevard in Olivette, 11700 West Florissant and 3164 Telegraph Road in Oakville; in Springfield at 149 Park Central Square and 525A South Glenstone; in Columbia at 403 Vandiver Drive; in Independence at 17601 East US Highway 40; in Joplin at 2702 Richard Joseph Boulevard; in St. Joseph at 1301 Village Drive; in Jefferson City at 2015 Schotthill Woods Drive.
Put in for the duplicate, then write to us; neither waits on the other. A lien is settled first, and the lender's payoff figure is the thing to ask for. A title that reads prior salvage is a thing to tell us, not a thing that stops the sale. The first message is the year, make, model and VIN, photos from every side, a photo of the title, and the town, and it serves 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.