Columbus trucks go far. The carriers with a city address that report where their drivers go put four interstate drivers beyond a hundred miles for every one inside it, and the median carrier reports 48,000 miles a year on each power unit, more than Houston, Chicago or Atlanta. This is a long-haul town.
The long haul starts from the warehouses, and the rest of the fleet serves them: day cabs shuttling boxes off Buckeye Yard, reefers, car haulers, roll-offs, grain trucks off the county's soybean and corn ground, and dump trucks out of the Marble Cliff quarry. A semi truck with a sleeper is the ordinary Columbus truck, and the county clerk is who titles it.
Alum Creek Drive and three more clerk's offices
In Ohio the county clerk of courts issues titles, not the BMV, and Franklin County runs four title offices in Columbus: 1583 Alum Creek Drive, 4153 West Broad Street, 45 Great Southern Boulevard and 220 East Campus View Boulevard. The lien and the bonded route for an old truck are on the Ohio page.
A Columbus sleeper that ran the long lanes shows its miles in the drivetrain and the bunk, and a day cab off the yard shows them at the fifth wheel. Photograph the cab, the engine, the frame and the tires, and tell us how far it went.
Nine and a half feet under Route 315
Ohio's weight law runs from the federal 80,000 pounds on the interstates to its own allowances off them, and the Ohio page carries the figures. Inside Columbus the bridges are mostly open, three with a load posting, but seven sit under fourteen feet and the lowest is only nine feet six where State Route 315 crosses a park access road. A quad-axle dump truck that ran the quarry allowance, a mixer that spent its life inside the outerbelt and a heavy-haul tractor on permits have all learned that bridge.
Tell us whether the truck is on the south side near the warehouses, out by Rickenbacker or in a yard off Alum Creek, send the photos and a photo of the title, and say whether we come to you or you drive it in. An offer comes back.