North Dakota's trucks haul wheat, oil and coal, and the Bakken put a second trade on top of the first. In FMCSA's October 2026 census, close to 6,500 carriers give a North Dakota address, close to six in ten holding interstate authority and about four in ten private fleets. Two and a half thousand carry grain, feed and hay, close to nineteen hundred carry machinery and large objects, close to fifteen hundred carry farm supplies, more than twelve hundred carry dry bulk, and more than eleven hundred carry oilfield equipment. Wheat leads 22 of the 53 counties in USDA's 2022 census, cattle 13, soybeans 12 and corn six. So the North Dakota truck is the wheat truck at a Red River Valley elevator, a winch truck on a lease road out of Williston or Watford City, the crude tanker that filled at a Trenton or East Fairview terminal, the frac-sand hauler, a cattle pot out of Dickinson, the coal truck at the Freedom or Center mine, a semi truck with a sleeper on I-94 between Fargo and Bismarck, a dump truck loading at a Killdeer pit, and the pickup every farm runs. Any of those gets an offer from us. Selling a semi truck in North Dakota takes one message, the year, make, model and VIN, photos of every side, a photo of the title and the town, and the offer follows it.
Three ceilings, and the third is a local decision
Under North Dakota Century Code section 39-12-05.3 the gross ceiling is 105,500 pounds on state highways and 80,000 pounds on all other highways unless the local authorities designate otherwise, up to the same 105,500; the interstate is governed separately under section 39-12-05, with the federal 80,000 pounds and bridge formula. Underneath: 20,000 pounds on a single axle, 10,000 on a wheel, 34,000 on a tandem and 48,000 for three or more axles, and a farmer, or a carrier hauling for one, may hold a permit to run ten percent over the limits on agricultural products, up to the same ceiling.
Section 39-12-03 lets the director and the local authorities post lower limits when rain, snow or a thaw is breaking a road up, and the state posts its spring restrictions by tonnage, so a truck hauling in April reads the posted level rather than doing the arithmetic. An eight-axle rig that ran the 105,500 on Highway 2, a tandem grain truck that waited out the postings, a heavy-haul tractor on permits and a dually that never saw a scale are four trucks and one offer process with us.
A title-issuing branch, and a five-dollar duplicate
North Dakota titles through the Department of Transportation's Motor Vehicle Division, and a duplicate title is applied for on the department's duplicate credentials form, at a fee of five dollars; where there is a lien, the lienholder on record is the one who applies. The motor vehicle offices marked as title-issuing branches are at 608 East Boulevard Avenue in Bismarck, 745 45th Street South in Fargo, 1726 South Washington Street in Grand Forks, 1600 2nd Avenue SW in Minot, 206 East Broadway in Williston, 1173 3rd Avenue West in Dickinson and 120 2nd Street SE in Jamestown, twelve in all; Valley City, Bowman, Lisbon, Linton, Langdon and Ellendale have offices that do not issue titles. Put in for the duplicate and write to us the same week.
A lien comes off first, and the lender's figure is the slow part; a brand on the title is one line in your first message. The rest of the state's work: the racks at West Fargo, Jamestown, Minot, Grand Forks and Rugby fill the tankers, the bulk terminals at Trenton and East Fairview load the crude, the Freedom, Center and Coyote Creek mines feed the power plants at Beulah and Center, the leonardite mine sits at Williston, and the sixteen rail yards run from Grand Forks, Mandan and Dickinson to Minot, Williston, Enderlin, Harvey and Portal on the Canadian line. Minot and Grand Forks Air Force Bases, Cavalier and Camp Grafton run their own fleets. 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: say which, say the town, and say whether it gets collected, bought where it stands, or driven in by you.
Neighboring states
North Dakota shares a border with three states.
Minnesota, Montana and South Dakota.