Nevada is a mining state before it is anything else to a truck. Thirty-three metal mines sit in our data, Carlin, Cortez, Twin Creeks, Turquoise Ridge, Marigold, Phoenix, Bald Mountain, Round Mountain in the Smoky Valley and Robinson at Ruth among them, with the mills at Dunphy, Battle Mountain, Carlin and Jerritt Canyon, and the ore and the supplies move by truck. In the census FMCSA published in October 2026, a little over 10,500 carriers give a Nevada address, about half registered for in-state work only and three in ten private fleets. Fifteen hundred carry machinery and large objects, eleven hundred carry motor vehicles, eleven hundred carry metal, a thousand carry logs, poles and lumber, and nine hundred carry household goods. Picture the trucks: a heavy-haul tractor moving a haul-truck body up I-80 to Elko, the semi truck draying boxes out of Sparks, a belly dump out of the Apex pits north of Las Vegas, a moving van on the Henderson routes, a car hauler on I-15, the water truck on a Reno job, the cattle hauler in Elko County, and the pickup or service truck every mine contractor runs.
A table that reaches 129,000
Nevada's axle-group table under NAC 484D.455 goes a long way up, from 34,000 pounds at four feet to 129,000 on nine or more axles from 101 feet, eight from 110 and seven from 118, and then the federal system takes the top of it away on the interstate. Underneath the table NRS 484D.635 sets 20,000 pounds on a single axle and 34,000 on a tandem, 600 pounds an inch of tire width on a steering axle and 500 elsewhere, with 2,000 pounds more for a primarily electric truck and 550 for idle-reduction equipment.
On a highway posted for traction devices the rule changes at 10,000 pounds: at or under it a truck may use chains or snow tires, and above it, which is most of what we buy, it must use chains, on at least two driving wheels and two braking wheels of any trailer with brakes. A nine-axle rig at the top of the table, a tandem dump truck, a heavy-haul tractor on permits and a pickup that never weighed in are the same conversation with us.
DMV offices, not AAA
A lost Nevada title is replaced by mail or at a DMV office if the truck was last titled here with no lien on it; the AAA branches do not do title transfers. The offices: in Las Vegas at 2621 East Sahara Avenue, 7170 North Decatur Boulevard and 8250 West Flamingo Road; in Henderson at 1399 American Pacific Drive; in Reno at 9155 Double Diamond Parkway; in Carson City at 555 Wright Way; in Elko at 3920 Idaho Street. Put in for the duplicate, then write to us. A lien is cleared first, and the lender's payoff is the slow part. If the title is branded, mention it when you write.
The rest of the work: containers go onto rail at North Las Vegas and Sparks, the racks at Sparks, Wadsworth, Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Paradise fill the tankers, and cement comes out of the Nevada Cement plant at Fernley. Rock comes from the Apex quarries north of Las Vegas, from Sloan, Boulder City, Searchlight, Spanish Springs and Lockwood, gypsum from the Apex quarry and Blue Diamond, and sand from 43 pits from Pahrump and Mesquite to Elko, Ely and Yerington. The twelve rail yards sit at Sparks, Reno, Elko, Winnemucca, North Las Vegas, Henderson and Arden. Nellis, Creech, the Nevada Test and Training Range, Fallon, the Hawthorne Army Depot and the Guard's complexes at North Las Vegas keep military fleets. Cattle are the top farm product in ten of the seventeen counties in USDA's 2022 census, so the cattle hauler belongs on this list too. Tell us the town and whether you'd like us to come for it, buy it from where it sits, or have you bring it in, with the year, make, model and VIN, photos all round and a photo of the title. 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: whichever it is, an offer comes back.
Neighboring states
Nevada shares a border with five states.
Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon and Utah.