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Microsoft Streets and Trips is your friend. It allows you to plot your route to match your permits.

EDIT: My version of S&T shows RT 24 running North off of RT 55 in the town of Annandale. It may have been signed as Oak Ave N. If you went N of Rt 15, that must have been in Kimball....approx 9.5 miles west of Annandale.

 

California Vehicle Code Article 7 section 25250 says you can't have an amber light on a commercial vehicle that is not exempt (house moving at night, disaster response vehicles, etc...). They rarely cite for it but they can. A few years ago they got a memo to cite for it. I had 8 trucks that we never turned the lights on in CA but we had to put beanie hats on all of the lights till they laid off that issue.
If you have been cited in Arizona for not flagging the TRUCK but you did flag the widest most foreword point of the load, you need to contact John Morales at ADOT Enforcement and Compliance (PM me if you need a phone number) or Chris Pippen at Class C permits. They can give you a written explanation to show the judge. More importantly, Captain Morales will tell the officers at San Simone to stop making up new rules (they do that more often than you would think). The confusion is where your permit says "Red flags required on all four corners at the widest points of the load/vehicle. "..

 

That is a pretty confusing sign. It should have the directions (IE: 24 north to the right 24 south straight).

 

when i hang my oversize on the front. i use bungeess hooked to the grill to pull it up. if i stick it behind the plate. it becomes wrinkled and unreadable.

i'll hang it on the load of i can on the trailer. most of the trailers i've pulled. don't have any real means of hanging the sign in a organized manner. and most times cover the back plate and lites. and are usually folded.

be nice if all trailers had full bumpers and plates were mounted on top with lights. or somewhere. then the sign could be hooked to 4 corner points and sit in middle of the back. below plate and lights.

i've seen guys with posts in the back pockets for the signs. some even have the hard metal signs.

 

I attached a hinged plate to the bottom of my front bumper and mounted my license plate on that so the banner doesn't cover it up anymore. Even simpler is to zip tie the plate to the grille.

 

It's been almost two years since I've been there. For some reason, I find myself trying to avoid the place, even tho I really do like that Petro2 in Clearwater. (actually met an attractive female driver from Quebec at the bar there). I get the feeling that they don't really want to talk to me. That's okay though...I'm not trying to win a popularity contest. I will try that sign shop. Do you know the name and location of that shop?

 

I run O/S weekly from CO, through WY, MT and into AB. WY is starting to get anal about the plate / sign issue. I have a Magnum bumper with a hinged plate mount over the centre pin. I run the large Oversize / Wide Load sign and the plate covered 8.5% of the sign (I measured after getting grief at the Cheyenne PoE) and really only a bit of the yellow and the tiniest bit of lettering. Still not good enough for them. They are even making a point of mentioning it in their spiel when calling in for a clearance number. So, now my plate is zip-tied to the grill guard uprights and the sign is clear. Sign in the back is attached to the load.

On the one hand it seems like they're making mountains out of molehills. A WY trooper I discussed the issue with at the Sheridan PoE even rolled his eyes and said, "I REALLY hope no one would cite you for that." The problem is that although a lot of us use common-sense regarding these things, I have seen loads with the signs covering the plate, headlights, even tail lights. So I can see their point... like most everything these days, they have to dumb it down to the lowest common denominator.