Vermont's trucks haul milk, stone and logs, and seven in ten of them hold interstate authority because the dairies ship south and the quarries ship everywhere. In FMCSA's October 2026 census, a little over 2,000 carriers give a Vermont address, and close to six in ten are private fleets. Close to seven hundred carry machinery and large objects, more than five hundred carry logs, poles and lumber, three hundred carry motor vehicles, close to three hundred carry farm supplies, and close to three hundred carry grain, feed and hay. Milk leads 12 of the 14 counties in USDA's 2022 census and maple syrup the other two. So the Vermont truck is the milk tanker on a Franklin County road at five in the morning, a log truck coming down out of the Northeast Kingdom, the granite truck out of Rock of Ages at Graniteville, the slate truck in Poultney and Wells, the marble haul at Danby and Proctor, a semi truck with a sleeper on I-89 between the Canadian line and White River Junction, a dump truck loading at the Winooski or Shelburne quarries or the New Haven plant, the feed truck, and the pickup every farm runs. We take every one of those. To sell my semi truck in Vermont, send us the year, make, model and VIN, a photo of each side, a photo of the title, and the town.
Twenty-four thousand pounds on the road outside
Vermont's general maximum is 80,000 pounds, with the gross-weight table topping out there at 51 feet for five or more axles, and under 23 U.S.C. 127(a)(11)(B) the state's own weight law applies on its interstates in place of the federal 80,000 pounds and bridge formula, the same arrangement Congress wrote for Maine. The number that decides most trips is smaller: under 23 V.S.A. section 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 village, is 24,000 pounds, and on a bridge with a wood floor, subfloor or stringers it is 16,000 on a class 3 or 4 road and 20,000 on a class 1 or 2, unless the selectboard posts otherwise, with permits under section 1400 above it.
A loaded tractor-trailer is more than three times the town-road figure, so in this state the question was rarely how much a truck could carry and usually which road it could use. A five-axle milk hauler that ran the table on I-91, a tandem dump truck that worked under a town posting, a heavy-haul tractor on permits and a dually that never saw a scale are four trucks and one offer process with us.
Online, at a DMV office, or form VT-004
Vermont titles through the Department of Motor Vehicles; a lost or misplaced Vermont title is replaced online, at a DMV office, or by mailing the Replacement Title Application, form VT-004. The offices that list title work: the main office at 120 State Street in Montpelier, South Burlington at 4 Market Street, Rutland at 101 State Place, Bennington at 530 Main Street and Newport at 100 Main Street, ten in all; town clerks renew some registrations but do not do titles. Put in for the replacement and write to us in the same week. A lien clears before anything else, and the lender's payoff is the part that waits.
The state's salvage scheme runs on an application clock rather than a percentage, which is a different mechanism from the 75 percent threshold New Hampshire and New York use, so if your truck carries a brand, tell us and we check it against your paperwork rather than another state's number. The rest of the state's work: the Burlington terminal at South Burlington fills the tankers, 13 crushed-stone quarries and 12 dimension-stone quarries run from Swanton and Winooski to Graniteville, Danby, Poultney and Fair Haven, the Ludlow mill at Proctorsville, and the rail yards sit at White River Junction, Rutland, St. Albans, Burlington, Middlebury, Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Newport and St. Johnsbury. Camp Johnson, the Ethan Allen range and the Burlington Guard base run fleets of their own. A sleeper, a day cab, a heavy-haul tractor, a dump truck, a roll-off, a mixer, a garbage truck, a wrecker or rotator, a log truck, a tanker, a boom or crane truck, a box truck, a straight truck, a utility truck, a pickup or a dually all get an offer; tell us which it is, and whether to come for it, buy it where it sits, or let you bring it down.
Neighboring states
Vermont shares a border with three states.