Vehicle OL Permit

I had a W9L on a 268 wb that I ran into BC alot from AB n never once had an issue...and I never even had a permit...so Im gonna say they are pretty relaxed...or they used to be anyways

 

Call a scale house and find out....

 

17,000 is max on the drives in BC.

I just had an FTL of iron ore out of Watson Lake that was 17620kg on the drives. The load was ok at that weight in the Yukon and would be ok in Alberta with the 500kg winter allowance but in BC we might have been ticketed as per the Watson Lake scale.

I didn't know about the permits available for the longer chassis.
I can tell you that north and west for six years I've been in a scale about two times besides buying permits in the Yukon.

I think as long as your weights are good they wouldn't even notice the length of your vehicle.
The only place that I have heard of them measuring is Enterprise, NWT. They've been measuring Rocky Mountain Doubles to make sure they're not more than 101 ft.
If you slid your 5th wheel forward I don't understand why a 268" would be an issue!

 

You'd have to slide it 24 inches to give you the same lenght as a 244/ You would be grossly overweight on the steering. Alberta give you 6000 on the steer. NEVER HEARD OF 500 ON THE DRIVES. oppppsss caps on, sorry.

 

oh the 500 kg on the drives we call "winter weights"
They allow us a bit more in the winter... not sure if it's because the permafrost prevents the extra weight from damaging the surfaces or more weight on the axle is better for traction or the idea of snow pack on the trailer accumulating during the trip making extra weight.

http://www.dot.gov.nt.ca/_live/pages/wpPages/CommercialAlerts.aspx

Under the NWT winter load tolerance section. AB and YT ok with them too.

 

Bc has the same as far as I knew?

 

I thought so too but the Watson lake scale pulled us in and told us we were not over for Yukon but if the lady in fort Nelson was crabby she would give us a ticket for overweight drives!


Pretty bad when your reputation at the scale reaches to the next region. I understood from my husband that we were 120 over for bc at 17620 but ok and under the 18000 for Yukon.