Philadelphia hauls cars. After general freight, the biggest single cargo the city's carriers declare is motor vehicles, nearly a thousand of them. The port's Southport auto terminal and the Pier 98 processing facility sit at the bottom of the city. Two in three of the city's carriers are registered for interstate work, so those cars go a long way.
Behind the car haulers come the day cabs draying boxes out of the Greenwich yards, the reefers and the dump trucks on city jobs. The tankers load at Point Breeze. A semi truck with a sleeper works the corridor north and south, and a tag agent on nearly every commercial street handles the paper when it is sold.
Lost title in Philadelphia
PennDOT does its title work through its authorized agents, and Philadelphia has thirty of them. They run from Nelson's Messenger Service at 2700 Randolph Street and 3249 North Front Street to Laughlin at 1210 South Broad Street and the AAA office at 1601 South Columbus Boulevard. Any of them replaces a lost title and signs the transfer.
A car hauler shows its life in the ramps, the hydraulics and the headrack, a port day cab in the fifth wheel and the steps, and a highway sleeper in the drivetrain. Photograph whatever did the work, and tell us the job.
Weight limits in Philadelphia
Philadelphia's own fact is that thirty of its bridges sit under fourteen feet, and 36 carry a load posting. The lowest is where Belmont Avenue crosses Chamounix Drive at eleven feet one. A tri-axle dump truck that worked the posted streets has a different working life from a sleeper that never left I-95. What Pennsylvania allows on its own roads, and the federal table on the interstates, is set out on the Pennsylvania page, not on this Philadelphia page.
Tell us where the truck is in Philadelphia, in the Northeast, down by the port or in the yards off Aramingo, and send photos and the title.
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