Ports work at Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga, with petroleum terminals at each of them and Knoxville.
A Freightliner day cab out of Memphis, a Volvo sleeper off a Nashville run, a Mack dump truck near Knoxville or a Chevrolet dually out of Chattanooga are handled the same way: send photos and the details, an offer comes back, and if you like it we can come to you, buy it remotely, or you can drive it to us.
Tennessee’s trucking industry is home to FedEx’s global hub in Memphis and a major automotive manufacturing corridor making it one of the top freight states in the South.
Whichever of those a truck does, the statute treats it the same and gives this trade nothing extra. Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-7-203 sets 80,000 lb gross, 20,000 lb on a single axle and 34,000 lb on a tandem, with up to 550 lb more for emissions-reduction equipment. Subsection (b)(7) grants a ten per cent margin of error on the weighing to logging, sand, coal, clay, shale, phosphate, solid waste, recovered materials, farm trucks and machinery trucks — off the interstate system only. Crushed stone is on none of those lists, and neither is limestone, aggregate or gravel. Tenn. Code § 47-26-812 adds a second mechanism from a weights-and-measures chapter about certified public weighers rather than the motor vehicle code: an axle-citation shield and five hundred pounds for a natural resources load. Off the interstate again.
The paperwork, by contrast, is one sentence: we need a title unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. The salvage rule is the one people repeat wrongly. Tennessee’s salvage and rebuilt part is built on the term passenger motor vehicle , and § 55-3-201 defines that as a vehicle ten model years old or less which, if it is a light-duty truck or a multipurpose vehicle, is rated at not more than nine thousand pounds gross.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-3-201 and § 55-3-211, with the Tennessee Department of Revenue’s guidance.