Missoula is the timber and university town, and the trucks follow the logs. After general freight, machinery and logs are the cargoes its carriers declare most, nearly two in three of them are private fleets, and the median carrier reports just 10,000 miles a year on each power unit, mountain miles rather than interstate ones.
A Missoula yard holds a log truck, a machinery hauler and a car hauler, a grain truck, a tanker off the two Missoula racks, a dump truck, a garbage truck, and a semi truck with a sleeper that works the interstate over the passes.
West Broadway, and up to eight weeks
The Missoula County treasurer at 200 West Broadway takes the title application and the transfer, and the state can take up to eight weeks to send a title back, so a lost one is the first thing to start. Liens and the salvage definition are on the Montana page.
A log truck is read through its bunks, stakes and frame, a mountain truck through its brakes and driveline. Photograph those first, then the cab and the engine, and tell us what it hauled.
No posted bridges, and Russell Street over the river
Montana's high figures cross the interstate line, as the Montana page explains beside the federal 80,000-pound gross. Missoula's own inventory is 36 bridges, none posted and one below fourteen feet, North Russell Street over the Clark Fork at eleven feet three, which the log trucks already route around.
Tell us the yard, by the racks, up the north side or out toward the airport, and send photos and the title.