Charleston is a port before it is anything else. Day cabs dray containers out of the Wando Welch and Leatherman terminals, and cars come off at the Columbus Street terminal. The yards at Bennett and Seven Mile put the rest on rail. 395 active carriers with at least one truck give a city address in FMCSA's November 2026 census, and two in three of them work South Carolina only.
So the Charleston semi truck is a port day cab more often than a sleeper. Behind it come a car hauler, a log truck coming in from the pine country and a tandem dump truck on a construction site. A tanker fills at the Hanahan racks.
Lost title in Charleston
The SCDMV branch at 946 Orleans Road replaces a lost title, and the expedited duplicate is a same-day item there, in person only. Another branch is at 3790 Leeds Avenue in North Charleston.
A port tractor has lived in salt air and short cycles and shows it in the frame rails, the fifth wheel and the steps. A car hauler shows it in the ramps and the hydraulics. Photograph what did the work, and tell us whether it worked the terminals or the road.
Weight limits in Charleston
Charleston's own fact is a short list: 96 bridges inside the city, four with a load posting and none under fourteen feet. A port truck here has never had to think about a clearance sign. A Charleston truck's limits are South Carolina's, and they sit with the federal table on the South Carolina page.
Tell us where the truck is in Charleston, on the peninsula, out by the North Charleston terminal or across the river at Wando Welch, and send photos and the title.
More city pages near Charleston: Savannah, GA, Columbia, SC and Augusta, GA.