oversize loads
Highway-hogging cargo shipments
Oversize loads are cargo shipments that exceed standard legal limits for width, height, length, or weight on public roads.
These loads—construction equipment, prefabricated buildings, wind turbine blades—require special permits, designated routes, and escort vehicles with warning signs: Traffic slowed behind an oversize load carrying a mobile home.
Also oversized loads.
- truckingRoad-based freight shipping
- long haulProlonged difficult undertaking
- permitOfficial written authorization
- police escortOfficers accompanying for safety
- escortOne who accompanies another
pilot car · safety cones · flatbed · highway · banner · road closure · flags · clearance · bridge · power lines · lowboy · crane · bucket truck · wind turbine · turbine · blade · modular home · house mover
- trucking ruleshours of service, logbooks, weight limits, weigh stations, safety compliance