Seattle is 84 square miles of land with a port in the middle of it, and the trucks are built for that. Half the carriers with a city address are private fleets hauling their own goods, and the port sets the miles.
The Seattle truck is a day cab draying boxes off Terminal 18 and Terminal 5, a garbage truck or a roll-off on a city route. A reefer comes out of a cold-storage dock and a tandem dump truck out of the pits. A mixer comes off the cement plant, and a gravel train comes in from the Enumclaw pits on Washington's bridge-formula weights. A semi truck with a sleeper heads east out of the region, and the county licensing office on Jackson Street titles it when it is sold.
Lost title in Seattle
King County's vehicle licensing office is at 201 South Jackson Street. The subagents inside the city are at 2232 NW Market Street in Ballard, 5963 Corson Avenue South in Georgetown and 3820 Rainier Avenue South. Three more are at 5615 Roosevelt Way NE, 12531 30th Avenue NE and 2515 SW Trenton Street. Any of them takes a lost-title application and records the title transfer.
A port tractor has lived in short cycles and shows it at the fifth wheel and the clutch, a garbage truck in the body and the hydraulics. A gravel train shows it in its axles and lift gear. Photograph whatever did the work, and name the job.
Weight limits in Seattle
Seattle's own list is short: ten bridges with a load posting and eight under fourteen feet, the lowest where East Interlaken Boulevard crosses 26th Avenue East. What Washington allows on its own roads, and the federal table on the interstates, is set out on the Washington page, not on this Seattle page.
Tell us whether the truck is in a yard in Georgetown, down by the port or up in Ballard, and send photos and the title.
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