Chattanooga is a plant town with the DeButts rail yards a mile west of downtown and the river port beside them. Manufacturing is one job in eight inside the city and transportation and warehousing one in ten. Of 1,034 carriers based here, nearly two in three run interstate and nearly half are private fleets. After general freight the cargoes they declare most are machinery, motor vehicles and metal coil.
So a Chattanooga yard holds a flatbed with coil, a lowboy with machinery, a car hauler and a dump truck off the Chattanooga quarries east of town. The semi truck with a sleeper works the interstate, because two in three of the drivers reported here work beyond a hundred miles.
Lost title in Chattanooga
In Tennessee a duplicate title comes from the county clerk, and in Chattanooga that is the Hamilton County Clerk at 625 Georgia Avenue, Room 201. A truck still under a lender's lien can be sold once the lender is named. The bonded title for an older truck, the lien and the brand are on the Tennessee page.
A coil flatbed shows its life in the deck, the racks and the chains, a quarry tri-axle in the body and the springs, a tank tractor in its tank paperwork. Photograph those first, then the cab, the engine, the door sticker and the dash with the ignition on. Tell us the yard, the quarry or the lane it worked and whether the trailer goes with it.
Weight limits in Chattanooga
Tennessee grants a ten percent margin off the interstate to some loads and not to crushed stone, and the Tennessee page has the list beside the federal 80,000 pounds. Chattanooga's own list is 249 bridges inside the city, eighteen posted for load and none under fourteen feet. A quarry truck here has read the signs on the county side and the scale on the interstate.
Tell us where the truck is in Chattanooga, by DeButts, out east by the quarries or at a plant dock, and send photos and the title.