Help on over-dimensional load

I'm sure others will chime in. Flags and banners hung. I doubt any night travel. Some cities will have curfews. 10 wide shouldn't need escorts. Possibly a beacon at the rear, possibly one on the truck, read the permits front to back, then re-read them. Certain states require red vs orange flags for instance.

Or just run it through the woods overnight.

 

10'4 tall or wide? What kind of trailer do you have? What's the weight? 53 ft step, you'd better familiarize yourself with the CT bridge law and see if you're legal. On a step, that load will hang off the back of the trailer and if it's heavy, you will be over axle (especially if you have to close the spread for the CT bridge law)

What about Virginia? Double check the provisions (like speed limits and run times and curfews and stuff like that.)

"Ho do I find the provisions, Six?"

Do a google search per state "oversized regs and provisions."

You have a whole bunch of homework to do. I sure hope that load is paying well.

Luck in battle.

 

Mostly you want to avoid curfews if you're on a tight schedule. Also nice to avoid toll roads if practical since that's another permit to order. Curious what route your chose and how close your actual permitted mileage is to what you guessed when you bid. What cities are the PU and destination?

 

Good call on the axle thing for CT @TripleSix . 41 ft from KP to rear axle IIRC correctly but don't quote me OP.

Don't know what cities he's picking and delivering in AND I don't know that area but I might be tempted to investigate a route through Norfolk to avoid Baltimore and DC.

 

It's been almost a decade since I've been north of Baltimore. The only toll road I think I've ever crossed in that area with a load that size is the one north of Baltimore on i95 before you get to Delaware. I took an aircraft engine to that air force base (it was 11 wide) in MD, and I took an armored dozer that you drop out of planes (small, but 2x as heavy. Had the folding blade. The thing was freakin heavy. Couldn't believe a dozer that small could be over 50000 lbs) to Aberdeen.

 

If he has a stepdeck and that piece is heavy, he may be in trouble. It would take a flat or a stretch Rgn to axle a heavier load out. And an Rgn would have to be stretched out 14 ft (possibly putting you over that 90 ft mark...)and that would get tricky maneuvering in the northeast.

 

I don't think he's over height or he wouldve said so. I'm guessing 10.4 wide on a 48 flat or he would've mentioned he had a low deck step

 

US 13 in DE is a good OD route but I've never been south of Salisbury.