New Jersey's trucks work the port and the roads around it. FMCSA's census, as published in October 2026, puts close to 46,000 carriers at New Jersey addresses. About half are registered for in-state work only, and four in ten are private fleets hauling their own goods. Four and a half thousand of them carry machinery and large objects, more than three and a half thousand carry motor vehicles, nearly three and a half thousand carry household goods, more than three thousand carry garbage, and close to two and a half thousand tell FMCSA they carry intermodal containers, the boxes that come off the ships at Newark and Elizabeth. That is a day cab semi truck draying containers out of Port Newark, the roll-off on a Bayonne route, a moving van out of Paterson, the garbage truck that does its streets before the traffic, a dump truck loading at a quarry in Haledon or Franklin, the tanker that filled at Linden, and the box truck or pickup a business keeps for its own deliveries. We buy every one of those.
Where the trucks are follows the water. Vehicles roll on and off at Port Newark, Port Jersey in Bayonne and the Salem Marine Terminal on the Delaware, and containers go onto rail at ExpressRail in Elizabeth and Newark, at the Bayonne terminal, at Croxton in Secaucus, Kearny, Little Ferry and North Bergen, and at the Balzano terminal in Camden. The 93 rail yards in our data are thickest along the Hudson and the Arthur Kill, Oak Island and Doremus in Newark, the Meadows yard at Kearny, Elizabethport, Greenville in Bayonne and Port Reading, with South Plainfield, Manville and Browns at South River inland. Stone comes out of the quarries at Haledon, Fanwood, Franklin, Hamburg, Glen Gardner, Oldwick, Finderne, Sparta, Belle Mead, Mount Hope, Kingston, Lake Hopatcong and Wantage, and sand out of Kenvil, Port Elizabeth, Lakehurst, Port Norris, Berlin, Woodbine, Tuckahoe and Manahawkin. The racks at Linden, Carteret, Sewaren, Newark, Perth Amboy, Port Reading, Bayonne, Paulsboro, Westville, Gloucester City, Pennsauken, Gibbstown and Trenton fill the tankers. Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Picatinny Arsenal and the naval weapons station at Earle, which has a rail interchange of its own at Tinton Falls, keep military fleets. Horses are the top farm product in six of the 21 New Jersey counties in USDA's 2022 census, soybeans in six more, corn in three, honey in two, and mushrooms and foliage plants in one each, so the horse van and the grain truck are on this list as well. Tell us the town and we'll agree whether to come out, buy it from a distance, or have you drive it over.
A Vehicle Center appointment and the title
The title settles most of it. In New Jersey a lost one is replaced by the Motor Vehicle Commission at a Vehicle Center, by appointment, on the Universal Title Application. The centers are at 438 Summit Avenue in Jersey City, 183 South 18th Street in East Orange, 450 Main Avenue in Wallington, 481 Route 46 West in Wayne, 271 US-22 in Springfield, 10 Roosevelt Place in Somerville, 120 South Stockton Street in Trenton, 2236 Route 130 North in South Brunswick, 1195 Route 70 in Lakewood, the Executive Campus on Route 70 in Cherry Hill, and 835 East Clements Bridge Road in Runnemede. Book the appointment, then write to us; the two run side by side.
Pay the lien off first if there is one, and get the figure from the lender early. A salvage title is a thing to tell us in the first message, not a reason to hold the truck back.
Twenty-two thousand four hundred on a single axle
New Jersey allows 80,000 pounds gross, 22,400 on a single axle and 34,000 on a tandem under section 39:3-84 of the statutes, the single-axle figure above the federal 20,000, and the local signs lower it from there. The statute is particular about what an axle is: a single axle has its center more than 96 inches from the next, a tandem is two set between 40 and 96 inches apart, and axles under 40 inches apart count as one. Those figures were your truck's working day, and they have nothing to do with the sale. A tri-axle dump truck that worked the quarry roads at the limit, a mixer that spent its life inside the turnpike exits, a heavy-haul tractor that moved on permits, a pickup that never came near a scale: same conversation, same offer.
First message: year, make, model and VIN, a set of photos, a picture of the title, and the town. 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: send it for whichever you have and the offer follows.
Neighboring states
New Jersey shares a border with three states.
Delaware, New York and Pennsylvania.