Tacoma is the port. The Sitcum, Blair and Terminal 7 docks, the Marshall Avenue auto facility and the TOTE Alaska terminal sit on the tideflats. The North Yard and TacSIM intermodal ramps, five rail yards and two fuel racks sit beside them, and one job in seventeen inside the city is in transportation and warehousing. Seven in ten of the carriers based here work Washington only, and half of them are private fleets.
After general freight the cargoes its carriers declare most are motor vehicles, machinery, logs and lumber, and steel coil. So a Tacoma lot holds a day cab draying boxes off Sitcum, a car hauler out of the Marshall Avenue yard and a log truck in from the timber. A flatbed carries steel coil, and the semi truck with a sleeper works the interstate. The Tacoma plant at Fife puts a dump truck on the roads.
Lost title in Tacoma
The Pierce County auditor's licensing office at 2401 South 35th Street, Suite 200, and the Parkland Auto Licensing subagent at 215 Garfield Street South take title work. A replacement title and the title transfer go through the same counters.
Rain and salt air are the Tacoma wear: frame rails, electrical connectors and cab floors before the mileage, and a log truck's bunks and stakes on top. Photograph those, then the cab and the engine, and tell us the terminal or the timber.
Weight limits in Tacoma
Tacoma's own list is 97 bridges, six posted for load and two below fourteen feet. The lowest is thirteen feet five where the Tacoma spur crosses Schuster Parkway, which a loaded log truck clears by inches. Beyond the city's own structures, a Tacoma truck answers to Washington's figures and the federal table, and both are on the Washington page.
Tell us where the truck is in Tacoma, on the tideflats by the port, up on South 35th Street or out in Parkland, and send photos and the title.
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