Permitted load stopping at truck stops

Ohio does now put that provision on OD permits, you can deviate as long as you do not cross under an overpass to get to the fuel, parking, repairs.

 

If you request it, I've never seen it on a permit and I had 3 Ohio permits today alone.

 

I'm with you 4020 never seen it Ohio is a pain about everything though rest areas are use less due to 4 dot bears setting in every one of them

 

You have the permit. That's step One. Step Two is the State Provisions. The provision sheets will tell you everything that the permit does not. How far you can deviate off route (if you can) for fueling, parking...etc.

If you do not have the OSOW provision sheets, look on the permit. On an Illinois permit, it will say that the permit is not valid without provision OPER 993 version 1-14. Do a google search for "OPER 993", and you will see the provisions. Real simple. Many states require that you have the provisions with the permits in order for the OSOW permit to be valid.

BE SURE TO READ YOUR PROVISION SHEETS!!!!!!!

 

I don't do our permits myself. My dispatch dept orders them. I can't say what they do or don't request. And I don't remember if that was Ohio or not. Just know I seen that in the provisions of one of the states I crossed. Went from Cofield, NC to Valley, Ne. I know West Virginia permits say you can't stop an oversize load at any service plaza on the turnpike, or in any rest area on I-64. That makes a pain out of crossing WV. There aren't that many truckstops on that route.

 

Well it would have been over the 4th of July holiday last time I was through there headed to Toronto with a super-load and both trucks had that on the permit, we were allowed X distance off the route for access to "services" provided we did not go under any overhead structures. I'll go back through and see if I can find a copy of it.

Our permit girl serves on the MATSHA (or some such thing) council which is the council that works to "harmonize" permits between states and I remember from the 2014 conference that they had got this provision added into Ohio permits starting on some date in 2015.

 

Please do because I haul in Ohio daily as a part of my job and I know the permit people on a first name basis including the director Jerry Wray and I've never heard of it. I pulled my permits for today and an oversize from a couple weeks ago and neither say anything about it, I also checked the website if it true it would benefit me.

 

I don't have any of those permits any longer but did just re-confirm with our permit girl and she says .5 miles off the route for services.

So I stand corrected, it was not listed on the permit itself but I knew we were allowed to get into a truck stop without it being listed on the route.

 

so How does he get fuel, shower, food etc etc understandably it would be harder to park somewhere however not impossible.