Billings is a ranch town with fuel terminals at the edge of it. Cattle come first among Yellowstone County's farm products by a wide margin, the racks at Laurel and Lockwood fill the tankers, and half the city's carriers are private fleets. The drivers they report are nearly four to one beyond a hundred miles, because nothing in Montana is close.
So the Billings semi truck is a cattle pot coming in off the ranches, a wheat truck at harvest, a machinery hauler, a tanker loading at Laurel, a winch truck headed for a pad, a Rocky Mountain double built to Montana's grandfathered figures, a tandem dump truck out of the Lockwood pit, a garbage truck on a city route, or a sleeper that runs the long lanes out of the valley.
The county treasurer, and up to eight weeks
Montana titles through the Motor Vehicle Division by way of the county treasurer, which in Billings is Yellowstone County's, and the state says it can take up to eight weeks to get a title back, so a lost title is the first thing to start on; the title transfer goes in the same way. The lien and the salvage definition are on the Montana page.
A cattle pot shows its life in the trailer and the fifth wheel, a wheat truck in the box and the hoist, a winch truck in the bed and the frame, a sleeper in the drivetrain after the long Montana miles. Photograph what did the work, and tell us what it hauled and where.
A formula in the statute, and figures that cross the line
Montana's high figures do not stop at the interstate the way they do in most states, and the Montana page explains the formula and the permits beside the federal 80,000 pounds. Billings' own fact is that none of its bridges carries a load posting and none sits under fourteen feet. A Rocky Mountain double that ran those figures and a dually that never saw a scale are two trucks and one offer.
Name the side of town, out by Laurel, in Lockwood or in town, send the photos and a photo of the title, and say whether we come to it, buy it where it sits or wait for you to bring it.