Laredo is the land port, and nearly everything on its roads is crossing the border or waiting to: nearly one job in five inside the city is in transportation and warehousing, three in four of the drivers its 5,400 carriers report work interstate beyond a hundred miles, and the median carrier reports 59,000 miles a year on each power unit. The Laredo and South Laredo yards, Port Laredo and two intermodal ramps put the boxes on rail.
After general freight the cargoes its carriers declare most are paper, beverages, dry bulk and steel coil, so a Laredo yard holds a drayage tractor on the bridge queue, a box truck on the paper and beverage routes, a dry-bulk tanker, a flatbed with steel coil, and the semi truck with a sleeper that takes a load up from the bridge and north. The biggest fleet based here runs more than a thousand power units.
Victoria Street
The Webb County Tax Office at 1110 Victoria Street, Suite 107, 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 bridge-crossing tractor has lived in the queue and carries it in the clutch, the brakes and the fifth wheel; a long-haul sleeper carries its miles in the drivetrain and the service file. Photograph those first, then the cab and the engine, and tell us whether it worked the bridge or the lane.
Five posted bridges and Lafayette Street over the tracks
Laredo runs the Texas statute, the federal 80,000 pounds and the state axle figures the Texas page sets out, over 173 bridges inside the city, five posted for load and one below fourteen feet, Lafayette Street over the Union Pacific tracks at ten feet four, which every tandem drayage tractor in town has measured.
Tell us where the truck is in Laredo, by the bridges, out at Port Laredo or on the south side by the yards, and send photos and the title.