New Hampshire's freight runs through a short coast and a long interior. There is a port at Portsmouth with petroleum and liquid-bulk terminals alongside it, rail yards at Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Berlin and North Walpole, dimension-stone quarries at Concord and Milford, and sand-and-gravel pits spread through the state.
We don't specialize, and a state this varied is why. An International box truck out of Manchester, a Freightliner day cab off a Portsmouth run, a Mack dump truck near Concord or a Ford dually out of Nashua all go through the same steps: photos and the details come to us, we send an offer, and if it suits you we can come to you, buy it remotely, or you can drive it in.
New Hampshire’s trucking industry is a compact but busy Northeast state with strong freight demand along the I-93 and I-95 corridors.
The higher ceiling is on the interstate, not off it
RSA 266:18, II(h) sets the ordinary ceiling at 80,000 lb for a truck-tractor and semi-trailer combination. RSA 266:18, III then allows up to 99,000 lb on interstate routes 89, 93 and 95, for vehicles certified under RSA 266:18-d that have paid the required fee, and for as long as the exemptions in 23 U.S.C. § 127 permit it. The interstate carries the higher figure, which is the opposite of the arrangement a driver moving between states will be used to. Underneath it the per-axle limits are keyed to the truck’s own gross weight rather than to the road: over 73,280 lb the limit is 20,000 lb per axle where the axles are more than eight feet apart, and 17,000 lb where they are not. Axle spacing does as much work as axle count.
New Hampshire gross-weight and axle provisions at RSA 266:18, I, II(h) and III.
Four years, and then the test changes shape
Missouri and Nebraska run six, Arkansas seven. The total-loss definition has two alternative limbs. One is the percentage — repair cost at 75 per cent or more of fair market value before the damage, and that limb is the one carrying the age window. The rebuilt inspection afterwards verifies the vehicle identification number and that the damage listed on the insurance adjuster report has actually been repaired.
New Hampshire total-loss and salvage-inspection provisions at RSA 261:22.