Portland is a river port with four auto yards. Cars load at Kelley Point, St. Johns, Smith and Barnes, containers go onto rail at Terminal 6 and Brooklyn, and the Willbridge racks fill the tankers. More than half the carriers with a Portland address are registered for interstate work.
So the Portland truck is a car hauler loading at Kelley Point, and a log truck coming in from the woods. A day cab drays boxes out of Terminal 6, and a tanker fills at Willbridge. A dump truck comes out of the Rivergate quarries. A semi truck with a sleeper runs the long lanes out of the valley, and the DMV on Sixth Avenue titles it.
Lost title in Portland
Oregon replaces a lost title at a DMV office or by mail, and Portland has three offices inside the city. They are 1502 Southwest Sixth Avenue downtown, 1186 North Hayden Meadows Drive and 8710 Southeast Powell Boulevard. Beaverton and Gresham are close by for the title transfer. The thirty-day notice an owner owes on a totaled vehicle and the lien are on the Oregon page.
A Portland truck has lived in the wet and shows it in the frame rails, the electrical connectors and the cab floor more than the odometer. Photograph those with the cab, the engine and the body, and tell us whether it worked the terminals, the city or the road.
Weight limits in Portland
Oregon writes its weight law from the tire up to the federal 80,000 pounds, and the Oregon page has the table. Portland's own fact is a city of bridges: 42 carry a load posting and eight sit under fourteen feet, the lowest at ten feet on the Hawthorne Bridge's west approach. A log truck at the tire rating and a dually that never saw a scale are two trucks and one message.
Tell us where the truck is in Portland, on the west side by Willbridge, out at Terminal 6 or across the river in the Brooklyn yards, and send photos and the title.