Can you junk a car or truck to a junkyard without having the title to it?

Question

I'm asking cuz one of my husbands so called friends was letting my husband store his truck in his backyard till he could get it regristered and insurance, anyway my husband now wants to regrister the truck and get it on the road but he can't seem to get in touch with this so called friend of his that I'll call Joe, He has been trying to call him even has gone to his place of employment which is the school dept,he's a janitor. Has gone by to were he lives, but there has been no sign of him and the truck is no longer in his yard, can you give a truck away to a junkyard without the truck's title? My husband has the title and all the other paper work proving he is the owner of the truck. We live in the state of Massachusetts. Can someone help me? Thanks alot.

Answer 1

Go to your DMV with the title and ask them to run a check on the truck as to ownership. If your husband is still the owner and there have been no changes, the truck is just missing.

Junkyards are not to take vehicles without titles.

We read here all the time of people buying vehicles without titles. If it was in an accident, you would have heard by now.

Check with the police department about filing a stolen vehicle report or see if they would contact the 'friend'.