Bismarck is the capital in the middle of cattle and grain country, with the oil patch a few hours west. Oilfield equipment is a cargo its carriers declare more than most capitals would.
A Bismarck yard holds a grain hopper, because corn and wheat fill more than a hundred thousand acres around the city, and a cattle pot, because cattle lead Burleigh County's farm products. Beside them sit a winch truck bound for the oil patch, a machinery hauler and a tanker. A semi truck with a sleeper works the interstate east or west.
Lost title in Bismarck
The Bismarck motor vehicle office at 608 East Boulevard Avenue, at the Department of Transportation building, issues a five-dollar duplicate title and records the title transfer. Where a lender holds the title, the lender applies. Brands are explained on the North Dakota page.
Prairie winters and gravel do the aging: frame rails, crossmembers, brake lines and the box of a grain hopper. Photograph those first, then the cab and the engine, and tell us what it hauled.
Weight limits in Bismarck
North Dakota allows 105,500 pounds on state highways and holds the federal 80,000-pound gross on the interstate, as the North Dakota page explains. Bismarck's own inventory is thirty bridges, none posted and none below fourteen feet, so the only postings a grain truck here meets are the spring ones on the county roads.
Tell us where the truck is, north of town, down by the river or across it, and send photos and the title.