Oversized load

Some of my permits I get monthly , 6 months or yearly, I will have to look and see if there is even a place to sign. lol I get them checked at the scales all the time, have never heard a word about it.
Most of our instructions are on the addendum, not the permit itself.

For smaller oversize loads, it is only 20 bucks more for a monthly permit than a trip permit. If I mess with the trip permit I have to have my route put on it, where the extended permit I can run any legal road, and a lot of the time I will be moving the same load again before a month is out, so it is a no brainer.

 

Annual permits for me on certain things, because I am normally pulling over sized loads. So much cheaper and easier.

 

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How does that work? What is the distinction between small and large OS?

 

There is no distinction, it’s either oversize or it is not.
However, rules can vary based on the width and/or height of the load.

 

Between 12-13 ft or wider, the game changes. Your factory mirrors become useless. Civilian pilot cars required. Differences in speeds and curfew areas. The wider you get, the more municipalities will have rush hour curfews, the crazier your route becomes. Fueling and parking become more critical and the more weekend curfews.

Over 14, you’re big. Front and rear cars police escorts in metro areas.

Over 17-18 wide, you’re superload. You will have the civilian pilot cars and police escorts.

24 wide, you’re 2 full lanes wide. Gonna be a loooong day. Odds are you will have to do a night more across a metro area.

The bigger the load, the less interstate you will see.

Now, the difficult (hair pulling, nerve wracking, so happy when you get empty) loads are the over height and stretch rgn loads.

 

That makes sense. I have no desire to run over 12ft at this point, I need to learn basics before going to more intricate things.

 

Every state has different oversize laws. here we can run day or night, only exception is curfew in anchorage or fairbanks .
What I call small is anything I can run without a pilot car, I can then use my extended permit.
We do not have to use police anywhere for any loads here that I know of, however the larger the load, the more pilots we have to have, some loads require 5 pilot cars.
I haul long pipe sometimes, under 100 feet only requires 1 pilot, over 100 ft requires one in the rear half way, and you drop the lead pilot at the half way mark too.
My truck is long enough I can over hang over enough on most loads to get it down to 100 feet, but usually don't the pilots have to make a living too.

 

I've had a few police escorts, but not many, maybe 12 in my whole life. Two pilot cars is fairly regular for me, but the widest load I've ever pulled was only 17'2", tallest was 18'9", and longest was 128'. So i have never pulled those super sized loads like some have. I have no desire to ever try and get something 20 something feet wide down any road. I did spend 4 hours going 1.5 miles years ago. As i would pull up a bit and wait for the telephone and electricity lines to be taken down off the next pole, 7 poles in total by guys in a bucket truck. Some had enough slack to be just pushed up with fiberglass poles. But if that was not enough, down the wires would come. By the time I was unloaded and heading out, all the lines were back up and it was just like i hadn't ever been there. Nothing like averaging 0.35 MPH speed.

 

We get to go 15 foot legally, but going north to the oilfield, there is nothing in the air, so height is no problem.
The widest I have taken up was 17 feet and it required 3 pilots, there is a lot of modules that are 22 wide that goes up, iirc they require 5 pilots.
You have to have pilot cars far enough out to stop traffic at the few wide spots you can get into and let ongoing traffic around.

At one time in New Mexico, any time a guy moved a house, you had to use state police escorts, but that changed years ago.
I moved a 26 wide house, and when I got the permit they ask which route I wanted to run. I jokingly said I-40, which would be way easier on me. lol
She sold me a permit for it, and I took the interstate.