Tennessee's trucks work three rivers and the rock between them. FMCSA's census, as published in October 2026, puts a little over 25,000 carriers at Tennessee addresses. A little under half are registered for in-state work only, and about a third are private fleets hauling their own goods. Four thousand of them carry machinery and large objects, close to four thousand carry motor vehicles, three thousand carry logs, poles and lumber, more than two and a half thousand carry metal in sheets, coils and rolls, two and a half thousand carry farm supplies, and more than two thousand are in the driveaway and towaway trade. That is a heavy-haul tractor moving an excavator up I-40, the car hauler leaving the plant yard at Chattanooga, a wrecker on the Nashville interstates, the tri-axle dump truck coming off a quarry at Murfreesboro or Smyrna, a log truck in the Cumberlands, a cattle hauler on a Middle Tennessee road, and the straight truck a business keeps for its own deliveries. All of those are trucks we buy.
The work is on the rivers and the rock. Barges load at Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga, and containers go onto rail at Memphis and Rossville and at Berry Hill in Nashville. The 59 rail yards in our data cluster at Memphis, Yale, Forrest, Harrison and Leewood among them, with Radnor and Kayne Avenue in Nashville, DeButts in Chattanooga, Etowah, Bruceton, Jackson, Mount Pleasant and Calhoun, and the Volkswagen plant's own yard at Chattanooga. Cement comes out of Sequatchie, Signal Mountain at Red Bank and the Knoxville plant at John Sevier, and there are 151 crushed-stone quarries in the towns our data covers, from Liberty, Springfield, Columbia and Murfreesboro to Cleveland, Madisonville, Dandridge, Jellico, Lookout Mountain, Lewisburg, Harriman and Mountain City, with 49 more cutting dimension stone on the Plateau around Crossville, Pleasant Hill, Graysville, Whitwell and Pikeville. Clay comes out of the pits at Gleason, Henry and Middleton, metal from the mines at Strawberry Plains and Gordonsville, and sand from Camden, Monterey, Decaturville and Jackson. Fuel loads at Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga and Parsons. Fort Campbell on the Kentucky line, Arnold Air Force Base at Manchester, the Holston ammunition plant at Kingsport, the Milan plant and the Navy's Mid-South base at Millington keep military fleets. Cattle are the top farm product in 58 of Tennessee's 95 counties in USDA's 2022 census, soybeans in 22, corn in eight, tobacco and milk in two each and cotton in one, so the livestock trailer and the grain truck belong on this list too. Say where the truck is and whether you want it collected, bought from where it sits, or you'd rather bring it in.
The county clerk and the title
You need the title to sell, and in Tennessee a duplicate comes from the county clerk, in person or by mail. In Nashville that's the Davidson County clerk at 700 President Ronald Reagan Way; in Memphis, 150 Washington Avenue; in Knoxville, 300 Main Street; in Chattanooga, 625 Georgia Avenue; in Clarksville, 350 Pageant Lane; in Murfreesboro, 319 North Maple Street; in Jackson, 100 Main Street. An older truck that never carried a title can be bonded into one. Ask the clerk for the duplicate, then send us the truck; neither waits for the other.
A lien comes off first, with the lender's payoff, and that is the slow part. A salvage or rebuilt title is something to tell us in the first message, nothing more.
Ten percent, off the interstate
Tennessee allows 80,000 pounds gross, 20,000 on a single axle and 34,000 on a tandem under section 55-7-203 of the Code, with up to 550 pounds more for idle-reduction or emissions-reduction equipment, and off the interstates it grants a ten percent margin on the weighing to logging, sand, coal, clay, shale, phosphate, solid-waste, recovered-materials, farm and machinery trucks. Crushed stone is on none of those lists, and neither is limestone, aggregate or gravel. Section 47-26-812, which sits in the weights-and-measures chapter on certified public weighers rather than in the vehicle code, adds a shield against an axle citation and five hundred pounds for a natural resources load, off the interstate again. Those were the rules your truck worked under, and they don't reach the sale. A log truck that ran on the margin, a tandem dump truck that didn't get one, a semi truck that stayed on the interstate and got none, a heavy-haul tractor that moved on permits, a pickup that was never near a scale: the same offer for each.
Year, make, model and VIN, a set of photos, a photo of the title, and the town: that is the whole first message. 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: the list is the same for each, and so is what follows, an offer.
Neighboring states
Tennessee shares a border with eight states.
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia.