Fort Worth is a rail town that became a plant town. Sixteen rail yards sit in Tarrant County, Tower 55 and the Downtown, Peach and Northside yards inside the city, and one job in nine here is in a plant with one in ten in transportation and warehousing, the highest shares of either among the Texas cities we write about. The fuel terminals cluster at Meacham, Saginaw and Euless.
A Fort Worth yard holds a day cab draying boxes off the yards, a flatbed with steel coil, a tanker off the Saginaw rack, a winch truck for the oilfield, and the semi truck with a sleeper on the long lanes. The biggest fleet based here runs nearly three thousand power units.
Weatherford Street
The Tarrant County Tax Office at 100 East Weatherford Street records the title transfer and starts a certified copy of a lost title for the Department of Motor Vehicles. Liens, the bonded route and the diesel emissions exemption are covered on the Texas page.
A coil hauler is read through its racks, chains and frame; a yard day cab through its fifth wheel and clutch; a winch truck through its winch, bed and undercarriage. Shoot those, then the cab and the engine, and tell us the yard or the lease it worked.
Fifteen posted bridges and Lancaster over Foch
Fort Worth runs the Texas statute, the federal 80,000 pounds and the state axle figures the Texas page sets out, over 1,226 bridges inside the city, fifteen posted for load and seven below fourteen feet, the lowest at nine feet four where West Lancaster Avenue crosses Foch Street by the rail yards. A tandem day cab that worked the Downtown yard has that one memorized.
Tell us where the truck is in Fort Worth, up by Saginaw and Blue Mound, down by the Downtown yards or out by White Settlement, and send photos and the title.