Overhanging load between truck and trailer, is it legal?

Not sure if what seek is here.
Legal load and exemptions by state.

Compilation of Existing State Truck Size and Weight Limit Laws - Appendix A: State Truck Size and Weight Laws - FHWA Freight Management and Operations

 

Not sure if what you seek is here.
Legal load and exemptions by state.

Compilation of Existing State Truck Size and Weight Limit Laws - Appendix A: State Truck Size and Weight Laws - FHWA Freight Management and Operations

 

Idaho will want you to have flags and lights on the front corners when you get above 4ft front overhang. WA you will need a permit to overhang on either end of a 53 with a divisible load.

 

Call Washington and ask. In order to go 60ft with a divisible load you need at least one 60ft piece. So with LVL beams as long as you had one 60 then you can load 40/20 or 3 20’s or whatever. If you don’t have a 60 then you can buy a 56ft permit. We used to have to buy those for hauling cardboard bales. Other than that no overhang on a 53 in WA.

I was always 4ft or less in ID so never had any problems, only ever heard of the guys loading 60’s on 48ft trailers getting in trouble for too much front overhang without lights.

 

Ohio you can’t have any overhang at all front or rear on 53ft.

 

The reason 53' refers do not get ticketed is that the refrigerator unit is exempt because it is not a "cargo carrying extention". As a car hauler that gets ticketed for overhang I say B.S., without that refrigeration unit the trailer would be useless.

Federal Highway Administration has all sorts of little quirks in their regulations that guide how and what states can do. Finding clear black and white regulations in eachbstate is tricky, often they are in odd parts of the code or laws possibly even in sections not directly related to transportation.

 

That is a great point