Vermont's freight is stone, rail and a lake terminal. Dimension-stone quarries work through the state, crushed-stone quarries alongside them, and there is a liquid-bulk terminal at Burlington.
An International box truck out of Burlington, a Mack dump truck off a Bellows Falls run, a Freightliner day cab through Rutland or a Ford dually out of Brattleboro all get the same treatment: photos and details come to us, we send an offer, and if it suits you we can come to you, buy it remotely, or you can drive it in.
Vermont’s trucking industry is a small but active Northeast freight state with strong agricultural and manufacturing trucking demand.
Congress handed this state its own interstate back
Under 23 U.S.C. § 127(a)(11)(B), for all portions of the Interstate Highway System in this state, the state’s own weight laws applicable to other state highways apply in lieu of the federal requirements. The state’s own highway weight law does. Maine is handed the same thing by the same subsection.
Twenty-four thousand pounds, on the road outside
Under 23 V.S.A. § 1392 the limit on a class 2, 3 or 4 town highway, or on a bridge with other than a wood floor in any town or incorporated village, is 24,000 lb. On a bridge with a wood floor, wood subfloor or wood stringers it is 16,000 lb on a class 3 or 4 town highway and 20,000 lb on a class 1 or 2, unless the town selectboard posts otherwise. Twenty-four thousand pounds is the town-road limit, and a loaded tractor-trailer is more than three times it. The general maximum is 80,000 lb, with the gross-weight table topping out there at 51 feet for five or more axles — but that is the ceiling, not the road. In this state the question is rarely how much a truck can carry.
23 V.S.A. § 1392, with permitting under § 1400.
The scheme runs on an application clock instead, which is a different mechanism entirely from the 75 per cent threshold rules New Hampshire and New York use. If your truck carries a brand, tell us and we will check it against your paperwork rather than against another state’s number.
Vermont title and salvage provisions — an application clock and no percentage.