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Florida Issues Emergency Road Use Permit

FL Issues Emergency Road Use Permit

The Florida Department of Transportation (DOT) issued an emergency order to suspend the size and weight restrictions for divisible loads on any vehicles transporting emergency equipment, services, supplies, and agricultural commodities and citrus as recommended by the Commissioner of Agriculture, allowing the establishment of alternative size and weight restrictions for all such vehicles by permit.


Pursuant to this authority, the Florida DOT issues this letter to suspend the size and weight restrictions for divisible loads on any vehicles transporting emergency equipment, services, supplies, and agricultural commodities and citrus as recommended by the Commissioner of Agriculture, allowing the establishment of alternative size and weight restrictions for all such vehicles by permit in excess of the normal restrictions on weight, height, length and width as provided below. The weight, height, length, and width for any such vehicle on roadways maintained by the State of Florida shall be as follows:


WEIGHT:


All overweight vehicles must operate in accordance with the applicable map based upon the vehicle configurations described below.

Current versions of these maps are located on the Permit Office website at https://www.fdot.gov/maintenance/owodpermits.shtm. The hauler is responsible for obtaining a copy of the current appropriate map prior to movement.

A. The maximum Gross Vehicle Weight for vehicles equipped with five (5) weight-bearing axles with outer bridge spans of not less than forty (40) feet, but less than fifty-one (51) feet, shall not exceed ninety thousand (90,000) pounds.


Axle weight restrictions are as follows when operating under Bridge Restriction Map TTT-1: Maximum twenty-two thousand (22,000) pounds (single), forty-four thousand (44,000) pounds (tandem) and sixty thousand (60,000) pounds (tridem).

Axle weight restrictions are as follows when operating under Bridge Restriction Map TTT-2: Maximum twenty-five thousand (25,000) pounds (single), forty-eight thousand (48,000) pounds (tandem), and sixty-six thousand (66,000) pounds (tridem).

View the emergency order here.

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