oversize load
Escort-requiring freight shipment
An oversize load is cargo that exceeds standard legal limits for width, height, length, or weight on public roads.
Such loads—industrial equipment, prefabricated buildings, wind turbine blades—require special permits and escort vehicles: The highway patrol stopped traffic for an oversize load.
Warning signs and flags alert other drivers.
- escort vehicleProtective convoy automobile
- flatbedOpen-topped hauling vehicle
- semi-truckCab with detachable cargo trailer
- pilot carLead car for oversized loads
- bannerDisplayed strip with message
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- Freight Haulingsemi truck, tractor trailer, flatbed, tanker truck, container ship
- heavy haulheavy hauler, pilot car, escort vehicle, wind turbine blade, helicopter transport
- heavy vehiclessemi truck, semi-truck, eighteen-wheeler, 18-wheeler, big rig
- freightcargo, cargo ships, air freight, freight rates, bulk freight
- Semi-trucks18-wheeler, big rig, semi truck, semi-trailer, tractor trailer