Elizabeth is the port's truck town: more than one job in five inside the city is in transportation and warehousing. 1,308 active carriers with at least one truck are based here in FMCSA's November 2026 census, and three in five of them are registered for interstate work. The cargoes they declare most after general freight are intermodal containers, motor vehicles and refrigerated food.
So the Elizabeth truck is a day cab that drays boxes between the ExpressRail ramp at the marine terminal, the ERail ramp a mile east and Port Newark. Behind it come a refrigerated box truck out of the cold warehouses and a tanker that fills at the Linden racks three miles south-west or loads at the Transflo terminal. A box truck with a lift gate runs between the warehouses, and the semi truck with a sleeper leaves the port for the interstate. The Elizabethport yard sits at the bottom of the city.
Lost title in Elizabeth
The Motor Vehicle Commission replaces a lost title at a Vehicle Center, by appointment. The center nearest Elizabeth is at 183 South 18th Street, Suite B, in East Orange, six miles away.
A port day cab wears at the fifth wheel, the steps and the clutch rather than the odometer, a refrigerated box truck at the body, the unit and the rear door. Those go in the photos along with the cab, the frame rails and the engine. Tell us whether it worked the terminals, the warehouses or the long lanes and whether a chassis goes with it.
Weight limits in Elizabeth
Elizabeth's own list is 117 bridges, none posted for load and three under fourteen feet, the lowest at twelve feet two where Chilton Avenue crosses the old industrial track. A tall box truck here knows its three structures, and a port day cab answers only to the scale at the gate. New Jersey's own figures and the federal table are on the New Jersey page, which is where a Elizabeth seller finds the arithmetic.
Tell us where the truck is in Elizabeth, by the port, down by Elizabethport or in a warehouse lot toward Linden, and send photos and the title.
More city pages near Elizabeth: Newark, NJ, Jersey City, NJ, New York, NY, Paterson, NJ, Yonkers, NY and Stamford, CT.