Question about running a 10’ wide load TN to CA

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Should be good to go then.

Should you plan on running oversized loads, a good idea is to get a copy of one of these books.
US Truckers Regulations on Oversize Load & Pilot Car
Permit Guide for Oversize Loads

While they are good references, they are not the end all to be all. Your permit is the primary info.

 

Not trying to be an A Hole, I promise.

Don’t guess. Know. In OSOW (oversized and overweight), the thing that brings the most succe$$ is knowledge. The permits may not say anything about beacon lights. However that exact same permit might bring attention to a state oversized provision sheet. A provision sheet will tell you everything that the permit doesn’t. Don’t just do the job, be good at what you do.

Six back quiet.

 

Epic post BTW.

On some permits, there will be something saying, “This permit is only valid with Provision XYZ attached.” You show up to the scale. Scalemaster asks to see your permit (that’s actually a whole different rabbit hole as far as who can inspect and enforce an OSOW permit, but we aren’t going there). If you hand over the permit without Provision XYZ attached, permit is void. Ticket book comes out. Every inch over 8’6 is a ticket. Every lb over 80k is another ticket. Every inch over 136-14ft tall , depending on the state, is another ticket. If there’s damage or an accident or if anything happens with a voided ticket, from drunk drivers with suicide notes to whatever, you’re automatically at fault because of the permit being void.

It is your responsibility, as the driver, to read and understand EVERYTHING regarding permitted loads.

 

Was in the office. My travel agent was on the phone, “ Read your permit. Read Your Permit! READ YOUR PERMIT!!!

What’s going on?
“New driver pulling his first oversized.”
Where is he at?
“Pennsylvania.”
Oh no! Do you have a copy of his permit?
“Is something wrong?”
(I grabbed her road atlas and went through the permit and I got on the phone with the driver and had him write notes on the back of his permits. Haven’t been to Pennsylvania in a number of years, but back in the day Pennsylvania had a provision sheet and a curfew map that had to be with the permit and the routing would say something like SR00081 for Interstate 81. If you didn’t know, it was difficult to figure out. A new driver is panicking and dispatch couldn’t understand why. Been there, done that, bought the tee shirt.)

 

Where to the Communist state are going to ?