florida with a 53 foot spread axle

well cant you fight it or at least get the penalty reduced due to good intent or misunderstanding of the rule???

 

Spread over a certain length is no longer an axle group.

 

Late to the party and didn’t read thru all the posts, but if your trailer is over 48ft and you have a fixed spread axle then you can buy an annual overlength permit for Florida. I don’t know what it costs now but it only used to be $40 or so. But you can’t (at least you couldn’t when I got my last one in 2016) buy it at a scale. You have to buy it ahead of time and have it mailed to you.

 

Can get an annual over length permit for cheap from Fl DOT online.

 

You can get FL permits 2 different ways. Classic yellow paper mailed and usable in multiple trucks, or digital online immediately assigned to one vin only.

 

You can get an annual permit to cover this if you have fixed axles.

 

How long have they been doing the digital version? 2016 was the last time I needed one and I was sweating while waiting for the snail mail to show up before I had to leave. Lol

 

It’s been a few years now.