South Carolina's trucks run to and from Charleston. Ships work the port, vehicles roll on and off at the Columbus Street and Veterans terminals, and containers go onto rail at the North Charleston terminal, Wando Welch at Mount Pleasant, the Leatherman terminal, and inland at the two inland ports, Greer in the Upstate and Dillon in the Pee Dee. In the census FMCSA published in October 2026, close to 25,000 carriers give a South Carolina address, a little over half registered for in-state work only and a third of them private fleets. Four thousand carry logs, poles and lumber, four thousand carry machinery and large objects, close to four thousand carry motor vehicles, three thousand carry metal in sheets, coils and rolls, and two thousand tell FMCSA they carry intermodal containers. Picture the trucks: the day cab semi truck draying boxes from Wando Welch to Greer, the log truck out of the pines around Georgetown, a car hauler on the Upstate plant runs, the coil hauler, a tri-axle dump truck loading at Cayce or Columbia, a tanker that filled at Spartanburg, and the straight truck a business runs on its own deliveries. We buy each of them.
Same-day in person
The SCDMV replaces a lost title by mail or in person, and the expedited duplicate is a same-day item at a branch, in person only. The branches here: in Charleston at 946 Orleans Road and 3790 Leeds Avenue in North Charleston; in Columbia at 1630 Shop Road and 228-A O'Neil Court; in Greenville at 15 Saluda Dam Road and 122 Edgeworth Street; in Spartanburg at 8794 Fairforest Road and 1625 Southport Road; in Rock Hill at 305 Hands Mill Road; in Florence at 3102 East Palmetto Street; in Myrtle Beach at 1200 21st Avenue North and 1330 Howard Parkway.
The lender's payoff comes before the title moves. If the truck is sitting at a shop or a tow yard over a bill, South Carolina's route runs through the magistrate: thirty days from written notice to the owner and any lienholder, then fifteen days of posted notice, before the truck can be sold to pay the yard. A salvage brand on the title is something to tell us when you write, not a reason to hold the truck back.
Thirty-five thousand two hundred, tolerance included
South Carolina writes its axle figures with the tolerance already inside them: section 56-5-4140 sets 20,000 pounds on a single axle and 35,200 on a tandem on the interstate, both including all enforcement tolerances, with 75,185 gross including tolerances and up to 80,000 under the bridge formula. Section 56-5-4160 then treats a scaled weight as no closer than ten percent to the true one, and because the axle numbers already carry theirs, that relief lands on the gross and not the axle; unprocessed forest products draw fifteen percent instead under section 56-5-4140, off the interstate only. Dump trucks and dump trailers, farm product haulers, mixers, fuel-oil trucks and line trucks get relief from the axle-spacing rule at 20,000 an axle plus the scale tolerance. A tandem dump truck that was over the number as printed, a log truck on fifteen percent, a heavy-haul tractor on permits and a dually that never saw a scale get the same answer from us.
The rest of the work: cement comes out of Harleyville and Holly Hill, and there are 41 crushed-stone quarries in the towns our data covers, Columbia, Cayce, Kershaw, Pacolet, Jenkinsville, Greenwood, Rock Hill, Liberty, Blacksburg and Clinton among them, with kaolin out of the pits around Aiken and Langley, the Haile gold mine at Kershaw, and sand from Pine Ridge, Jefferson, Pageland and Bennettsville. The racks at Charleston, Hanahan, Spartanburg, Belton, Inman, North Augusta and Union fill the tankers, and the 48 rail yards run from Cosgrove, Bennett and Seven Mile around Charleston to Andrews at Columbia, Hayne at Spartanburg, Greenville, Florence, Sumter and Laurens. Fort Jackson, Shaw, McEntire, Joint Base Charleston and the Marine air station at Beaufort keep military fleets. Cattle are the top farm product in sixteen of the 46 counties in USDA's 2022 census, cotton in ten, corn in nine and soybeans in eight, so the cattle hauler and the cotton truck belong here too. Tell us the town and whether you'd like us to come for it, buy it from where it sits, or have you bring it to us, with the year, make, model and VIN, photos all round and a photo of the title. 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: an offer comes back for any of them.
Neighboring states
South Carolina shares a border with two states.
Georgia and North Carolina.