Durham is a university and research town whose trucks keep close to home: more than half the carriers based here work North Carolina only, the median carrier reports 24,000 miles a year on each power unit, and the biggest fleet in the city runs about three hundred power units. The Durham and East Durham yards handle the rail, and one job in eighteen inside the city is in a plant.
After general freight the cargoes its carriers declare most are motor vehicles, household goods, lumber and machinery, so a Durham yard holds a car hauler, a moving van, a flatbed with lumber for a jobsite, a garbage truck, and the semi truck with a sleeper on the interstate. The Rougemont quarry north of town puts a dump truck on the roads.
University Drive and Highway 55
Two license plate agencies inside the city, Parkway Plaza at 4215 University Drive, Suite 8, and Triangle Square at 4731 NC Highway 55, Suite 7A, replace a lost title and record the title transfer. The lender's lien and the tow-yard lien that outranks it are set out on the North Carolina page.
A subdivision flatbed shows its life in the deck and the winches, a car hauler in the ramps and hydraulics. Photograph those first, then the cab and the engine, and tell us the job or the route.
Four posted bridges and Pettigrew Street
North Carolina allows more on a tandem axle than the federal 80,000-pound table does, as the North Carolina page sets out. Durham's own list is 275 bridges, four posted for load and four below fourteen feet, the lowest at eleven feet one where Pettigrew Street crosses Campus Drive, which keeps the downtown box trucks on the other streets.
Tell us where the truck is in Durham, by the East Durham yard, out on Highway 55 or up toward Rougemont, and send photos and the title.