Washington, DC runs trucks the way a city does: delivery, refuse, passengers and the moves in and out of a town where everyone arrives on a contract and leaves on one. In the census FMCSA published in October 2026, 844 carriers give a District address, about half registered for local work only and a little over four in ten private fleets. More than four hundred carry general freight, 136 carry passengers, 129 carry garbage, 112 carry motor vehicles, a hundred are in the driveaway and towaway trade, and 92 carry household goods. There are no quarries, no racks and no farms inside the line; the Benning rail yard and the four Navy and Air Force installations along the Anacostia are the whole industrial map. So the DC truck is a box truck on a Capitol Hill delivery route, the garbage truck that does Georgetown before the traffic, a bus on a Pennsylvania Avenue contract, the moving van out of a Southwest high-rise, a wrecker on the Beltway, the roll-off on a Navy Yard build, a semi truck with a sleeper that brought a load in from Maryland or Virginia and sits on New York Avenue, and the dually a contractor runs between jobs. Each of them is a truck we buy. To sell my semi truck in Washington, DC, send the year, make, model and VIN, photos all round, a photo of the title and the street.
Twenty-one thousand on an axle, and a thousand-pound tolerance
The District's weight rule is 18 DCMR 2505, written under section 50-2201.03 of the District Code, which leaves the length, weight, height and width of vehicles to the Mayor's rules: 21,000 pounds through the wheels of any one axle, with a loading tolerance of 1,000 pounds on axle loads that carries over to the axle and gross loads a special or annual permit allows. The tunnels and bridges in chapter 25 carry their own postings, and I-395 and I-295 hold the federal 80,000 pounds and bridge formula.
A five-axle semi truck that came in on New York Avenue at the federal 80,000, a tandem dump truck at the District axle figure, a heavy-haul tractor on a Mayor's permit and a dually that never saw a scale are four trucks and one offer process with us. The rule was the carrier's concern while the truck worked the city; what it is and what the photos show are ours.
A service center for the duplicate
The District titles through DC DMV, and a duplicate title is requested in person at a DC DMV service center with the required documents and fee, or online. The three centers open when the list was read: Rhode Island at 2350 Washington Place NE, Southwest at 95 M Street SW and Benning Ridge at 4525 Benning Road SE; the Georgetown center at 3270 M Street NW was posted closed until further notice after a water main break. The DMV's one line for all of them is 311 or 202-737-4404. Put in for the duplicate and write to us the same day; a lien comes off first, and the lender's figure is the slow part.
A brand on the title is one line in your first message and no more. The way the truck leaves is a question of where it sits: a truck parked in the District, in Prince George's or Montgomery County, or across the river in Arlington or Alexandria is the same conversation, and we come for it, buy it where it sits, or have you bring it to us. Sleeper or day cab, heavy-haul tractor, dump truck, roll-off, mixer, garbage truck, wrecker or rotator, log truck, tanker, boom or crane truck, box truck, straight truck, utility truck, bus, pickup or dually: tell us which, and the street.
Neighboring states
1 District of Columbia city has a local page below. We buy commercial trucks everywhere else in District of Columbia too.