New Hampshire's trucks mostly belong to the businesses that use them: in FMCSA's October 2026 census, a little over 4,000 carriers give a New Hampshire address, and more than six in ten are private fleets, while seven in ten hold interstate authority, because almost everything a Granite State truck does crosses the Massachusetts line. A thousand carry machinery and large objects, more than six hundred carry logs, poles and lumber, five hundred carry motor vehicles, close to three hundred carry garbage, and 271 are utility fleets. Milk leads seven of the ten counties in USDA's 2022 census. So the New Hampshire truck is the log truck coming down out of Coos County toward Berlin, a day cab semi truck on I-93 between Manchester and the Boston terminals, the roll-off on a Nashua route, a bucket truck for the power company after an ice storm, the milk tanker on a Grafton County road, a dump truck loading at the Hudson plant or a Hooksett gravel pit, and the box truck a Portsmouth business keeps for its own deliveries. We buy each of those. The sell my semi truck in New Hampshire message is the year, make, model and VIN, a set of photos, a photo of the title and the town, and the offer comes back from that.
The higher ceiling is on the interstate
RSA 266:18 sets the ordinary ceiling at 80,000 pounds for a tractor and semitrailer, and then paragraph III allows up to 99,000 pounds on Interstates 89, 93 and 95 for vehicles certified under RSA 266:18-d that have paid the fee, for as long as the exemptions in 23 U.S.C. 127 permit it, so the interstate carries the higher figure, the opposite of the arrangement a driver coming in from most states expects. Underneath it the axle limits are keyed to the truck's own gross rather than to the road: over 73,280 pounds the limit is 20,000 pounds per axle where the axles are more than eight feet apart and 17,000 where they are not, so spacing does as much work as count.
A six-axle rig certified for 99,000 on I-93, a tandem dump truck at the ordinary figure, a heavy-haul tractor on permits and a dually that never saw a scale are four trucks and one offer process. The certification and the fee were the carrier's business while the truck worked; what it is and what the photos show are ours.
The town clerk prepares the title
New Hampshire does its titling at the town and city clerk: a new title is prepared only by a clerk, a licensed dealer or a lienholder, and the Division of Motor Vehicles issues it from Concord. A duplicate is a different route: the application is dropped at most DMV offices, Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Dover, Salem, Keene and Milford among the fourteen towns with one, or mailed to the DMV's title bureau at 23 Hazen Drive in Concord. Put in for the duplicate and write to us in the same week. A lien is cleared ahead of everything, and the lender's letter sets the pace.
If the truck was ever written off, the state's total-loss test under RSA 261:22 has two limbs, one of them repair cost at 75 percent or more of fair market value before the damage inside the age window the statute sets, and the rebuilt inspection afterwards checks the VIN and that the damage on the adjuster's report was repaired; a brand is one line in your first message. The rest of the state's work: the Portsmouth terminals at Newington and River Road fill the tankers, 12 crushed-stone plants and 37 sand and gravel pits run from Lebanon and Walpole to Hooksett, Loudon and Ossipee, the granite comes out of Milford and Concord, and the rail yards sit at Portsmouth, Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Berlin and North Walpole. Pease, New Boston and the Newington fuel depot have military trucks of their own. Tell us what it is, 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, and how you would like it to go: collected, bought where it stands, or delivered to us.
Neighboring states
New Hampshire shares a border with three states.
Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont.