Charleston is a small city with a coalfield around it. Three in four of the carriers with a city address are private fleets. Kanawha County's part of the freight map is the prep plants and river docks up the hollows, Blue Creek, Marmet and Quincy among them.
So the Charleston semi truck is a tri-axle coal truck running from a mine to a prep plant or a dock on the state's off-interstate table. Beside it sit a flatbed with machinery, a log truck, a utility truck and a tanker off the Charleston racks, and the occasional sleeper works the lanes out of the valley.
Lost title in Charleston
The DMV regional office at 5707 MacCorkle Avenue SE in Kanawha City replaces a lost title and takes the title transfer. The thing that catches people out is that the seller keeps the plates and must notify the commissioner of the transfer, so build it into the day. That rule, the lien and the brand are on the West Virginia page.
A coal truck shows its life in the body, the tailgate, the suspension and the frame. A truck that has worked the hollows shows it in the brakes and the driveline on the grades. Photograph the body and the undercarriage with the cab and the engine, and tell us the run it made.
Weight limits in Charleston
West Virginia writes a configuration table with a ten percent tolerance for every road that is not an interstate, which is the coal truck's law. The interstate holds the federal 80,000 pounds, and the West Virginia page has the table. Charleston's own fact is fourteen bridges with a load posting and four under fourteen feet. The lowest is on a county road over Cabin Creek, which a coal truck on that creek has read every morning.
Tell us whether the truck is up Cabin Creek, in Kanawha City or across the river in South Charleston, and send photos and the title.