Charlotte is a fleet town. The largest carrier with a Charlotte address reports 9,583 power units, the biggest fleet in any of the 51 cities we write about, and two in three of the city's carriers are registered for interstate work. A Charlotte semi truck is often a sleeper in a company fleet, on a maintenance schedule, with its records in a file.
The rest of the fleet is local. Tankers load at the Paw Creek racks west of town, tandem and tri-axle dump trucks come out of the Arrowood quarry, day cabs shuttle boxes off the inland port, and car haulers, reefers and roll-offs serve a city that is growing on every side.
Three license plate agencies and a yard lien to settle
In North Carolina the DMV's license plate agencies handle title work, a lost title included, and Charlotte has three: 5309-E East Independence Boulevard, 3250-G Wilkinson Boulevard and 809 East Arrowood Road. The lender's lien and the shop or tow-yard lien that comes ahead of it are on the North Carolina page.
A fleet sleeper has usually been maintained on a schedule and shows it in the records as much as the metal, so send what you have of those along with photos of the cab, the engine, the frame and the tires, and tell us the lane it worked.
Thirty-eight thousand on a tandem
North Carolina allows more on a tandem than the federal 80,000 pounds table does, and the figure is on the state page. Charlotte's own fact is that its bridges are mostly open: nineteen carry a load posting and only one sits under fourteen feet, where the Josh Birmingham Parkway crosses the airport loop road. A tandem dump truck that worked to the state's figure all its life needs no more explaining than a dually that never saw a scale.
Tell us whether the truck is in a yard near the airport, out by Arrowood or on the north side near the inland port, send the photos and a photo of the title, and say whether we come for it or you bring it to us. An offer comes back.