Where do I find weight restrictions on roads

Buy a Motor Carrier Atlas and look up the roads. It's far cheaper than the overweight ticket. If you're too cheap, stop and look at a Motor Carrier Atlas for your few roads.

 

you can call the county highway department if they don't have anything on the Internet and hopefully they would know about the Township roads also

 

State website since many have spring weight restrictions.
Then county if your on county or farm roads.

 

or just ask or call the farmer

 

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Yea, that's the best way to get legal weights....

 

Motor Carrier atlases are a fantastic source of information. However they have one very important limitation. Once you get off the national network and onto secondary roads most don't have this information. In fact there are lots of low bridges and weight restricted bridges that are not pointed out. I swear by these atlases however I have been confronted by problems I never knew was there once I got off the main road. @ad356 I HIGHLY recommend you STAY on the roads you know are legal for you to be on. You may or may not find weight restrictions online, however I am sure if you took a few minutes to look at these city/county websites you might find a phone number OR you might get a map listing these roads and their limits.

 

Weight restrictions on bridges are not mark for their full capacity. They're marked at a much lower weight than they can hold. But the problem is if they have been neglected, as most are, and you go across and cause any damage guess who pays for it?

 

Sure most of them know the weight limits, just because they don't obey them don't mean they don't know them. They're usually informed by a badge bearing individual at least once every few years.