TN annual OS permits

As far as the electronic copy of the permits, I was told if the officer ask for a hard copy, you have to be able to provide one. I put a small copier in my truck.

 

Are you still Landstar? Which permit service you use?

 

Yessir.

I use “The Permit Company “ - Texas office. There’s 2 in there I send a ‘donation’ to occasionally to get a little better service.

West Coast Permits is usually good too.

 

I got a TN permit last week, just to go 20 miles through Memphis from Mississippi to Arkansas. I used TN-Trips and since it was a border-to-border route the computer approved it even though I was OSOW. But the application had that question about kingpin length and I wasn’t even sure what that was or how to measure it. What is the correct answer? And why does Tennessee say it may take up to 5 days to get a permit if I want to pick up a piece of equipment originating somewhere in the state other than at the border? All these other states we work in in the mid -South I just call up the permit office and tell the lady where I’m going and a credit card number and they email me a permit within a few minutes.

 

TN - legal limit is 50’ from trailer kingpin to the end of trailer OR load. Anything over requires a permit.

So, if a 48’ trailer with a 24” setback kingpin - could legally have 4’ of rear overhang on the load before requiring a permit.

The whole permit deal across 48 states is wildly varied. California, for all its other restrictions, is rather lax on length. A third of the load can overhang. What? So a 90’ beam can sit on a 60’ trailer with a 30’ tail swing?! Yup.

Yet TN wants a rear pilot car over 90’ overall. I’m 75’ overall at the 48’ closed mark before I even start stretching it out. I typically run around TN E-W if I can, it’s the odd one out in that region.

Which makes me wonder if they know what fuel amd tax revenue they miss by having more restrictive permit laws than others - probably not.

Missouri the same, I’ll drive 150 miles longer so I don’t have to fool with KC and STL restrictive curfews, or 2 lane curfews.

Aaaah. Rules. Who needs ‘em.