Knoxville has a bulk transfer at each end of town, the Coster rail yard north of downtown and the Transflo terminal to the south-east. A fuel rack sits on the west side and an asphalt terminal on the east. Of 1,173 carriers based here, half run interstate and nearly half are private fleets moving their own goods. After general freight the cargoes they declare most are machinery, motor vehicles and metal coil.
So a Knoxville yard holds a lowboy with machinery, a car hauler, a flatbed with coil and a dump truck off the Riverside Drive quarry east of the city. The semi truck with a sleeper works the interstate, and an asphalt hauler and a tanker load at the two terminals.
Lost title in Knoxville
In Tennessee a duplicate title comes from the county clerk, and in Knoxville that is the Knox County Clerk at 300 Main Street. The bonded title for an older truck, the lien and the brand are on the Tennessee page.
A quarry tri-axle is read through the body, the hoist and the springs, a coil flatbed through the deck and the racks, a tanker through its tank paperwork. Photograph those first, then the cab, the engine and the odometer. Tell us the quarry, the terminal or the lane it worked and whether the trailer goes with it.
Weight limits in Knoxville
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. Knoxville's own list is 347 bridges in the area, twelve 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 Knoxville, up by Coster, out east by the quarries or at a plant dock, and send photos and the title.