The Arizona answer
Legal limits
First escort trigger
What the paper costs
- Single-trip base
- $0 · caveat ↓rev. · read secondary host
- Transaction / card
- None published · caveat ↓undated document · read
- How overweight is priced
- Graduated weight bandsundated document · read
- Superload above
- 250,000 lb and up · caveat ↓rev. · read secondary host
The short version: a Arizona single-trip permit starts at $0 before bands, overweight and the transaction charge; an escort is first required at over 10' wide; and the load becomes a superload at over 250,000 lb. Everything below carries the Arizona document it came from, that document's own revision date, and the date we read it.
1. Where the load goes next
The jurisdictions this one borders, each chip carrying the fact that decides whether that crossing is the expensive one — so the row is itself a small comparison. A multi-state lane is the actual job, and from here it is one click per state rather than a return to an alphabetical index.
CaliforniaEscort at over 10' (worst road class)NevadaEscort at over 12' (worst road class)New MexicoEscort at 14' or moreUtahEscort at 12' or more (worst road class)MexicoInternational border — outside this corpus
2. Arizona legal limits
Anything over one of these needs a permit. Every value links to the document that sets it.
| Measure | Legal limit |
|---|---|
| Width | 8'6"undated document · read § 28-1093(C): "A person may operate a vehicle with a total width of the vehicle or the load on the vehicle of NOT MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED TWO INCHES, EXCLUSIVE OF SAFETY EQUIPMENT, on: 1. Any segment of the national system of interstate and defense highways. 2. Any other qualifying federal aid highway. 3. Any state highway, as designated by the director." INCLUSIVE — "not more than one hundred two inches" makes 102 in legal and 102.1 in not. THE BASELINE OFF THAT SYSTEM IS NARROWER, and it is 8 ft rather than the 102 in most of this corpus uses: § 28-1093(A) — "Except as otherwise provided in subsections B and C of this section and section 28-627, the total outside width of a vehicle or the load on the vehicle SHALL NOT EXCEED EIGHT FEET", which is EXCLUSIVE (8 ft itself is legal). The 96 in figure is recorded here and not as a competing row, because Arizona publishes no road classification this engine can condition it on and two unconditioned rows would conflict on every quote. A load between 96 in and 102 in on a non-designated state highway may need an Arizona permit this engine does not flag; the director's designation list was not retrieved. |
| Height | 13'6"undated document · read § 28-1094(A): "Without a permit issued under section 28-1103 or this section, a vehicle unladen or with a load SHALL NOT EXCEED A HEIGHT OF THIRTEEN FEET SIX INCHES above the level surface on which the vehicle stands." EXCLUSIVE. § 28-1094(B) separately requires a designated system on which a vehicle "NOT EXCEEDING FOURTEEN FEET" may operate "WITHOUT A PERMIT" — INCLUSIVE of 14 ft — but the designation list was not retrieved, so the statewide figure is the one recorded. Arizona also prices two height-specific permits that are not single-trip alternatives and are not applied: § 28-1094(C), a one-year permit at $45 per motor vehicle where the laden height does not exceed 14 ft, and § 28-1094(D), $15 per motor vehicle where the laden height exceeds 14 ft — and (D) says expressly that "the SINGLE TRIP special permit is governed by sections 28-1103, 28-1104 and 28-1105", which is the $15/$75/$75 schedule this file prices. |
| Semitrailer length | 57'6"undated document · read § 28-1095(C)(1): "The length of a semitrailer operating in a truck tractor-semitrailer combination or a truck tractor-semitrailer-forklift combination SHALL NOT EXCEED FIFTY-SEVEN FEET SIX INCHES." EXCLUSIVE, and 4 ft 6 in MORE GENEROUS than the 53 ft most of this corpus records — a 57 ft trailer that needs a permit in South Dakota is legal in Arizona, and substituting 53 ft would invent a permit requirement and a $15 fee with it. A DOUBLE is different and stricter: the trailer or semitrailer in a tractor-semitrailer-trailer combination may not exceed 28 ft 6 in (C)(2), and the trailer in a truck-trailer combination the same (C)(3). |
| Overall length | None published |
| Kingpin to rear axle | None published |
| Front overhang | None published |
| Rear overhang | None published |
| Gross weight | 80,000 lbundated document · read § 28-1100(A): "a person may operate a vehicle on all highways, including a toll facility as defined in section 28-7751, subject to the following maximum gross weights: ... 3. EIGHTY THOUSAND POUNDS on a vehicle combination of five axles or more. 4. On a group of two or more consecutive axles ... W = 500 (LN/(N-1) + 12N + 36)". The heading is "maximum gross weights" and the exceptions read "may exceed the weight limitation", so this is an INCLUSIVE maximum — 80,000 lb is legal, above is not. TWO EXCEPTIONS ARE RECORDED AND NOT APPLIED because a quote states no powertrain: (H) allows an extra 550 lb or the weight of the idle-reduction technology, whichever is less; (I) allows up to 82,000 lb for natural-gas, battery-electric and hydrogen vehicles. THE AXLE-GROUP SIDE CANNOT BE FULLY EVALUATED: R17-6-411 expands the bridge formula into Illustration 3 and Tables 3.01 through 3.09 ("The values in Table 3.01 line 'A' are an expression of the formula W = 1.5 x 700 (L + 40) for L = 3' 5" to 18' 0'"), and those tables could not be retrieved — Cornell does not render them and the ADOT and Secretary of State PDFs are 403. Exceeding them is an independent class C trigger under R17-6-211(F). |
| Single axle | 20,000 lbundated document · read § 28-1100(A)(1): "TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS, INCLUDING ENFORCEMENT TOLERANCES, on any one axle." INCLUSIVE maximum, and note that the figure is stated as already including the tolerances rather than before them. |
| Tandem axle | 34,000 lbundated document · read § 28-1100(A)(2): "THIRTY-FOUR THOUSAND POUNDS, INCLUDING ENFORCEMENT TOLERANCES, on a tandem axle." INCLUSIVE, and this IS Arizona's own figure rather than the federal number borrowed — unlike Wyoming's 36,000 lb. § 28-1100(B) defines "tandem axles" as "two or more consecutive axles that are MORE THAN FORTY INCHES BUT NOT MORE THAN NINETY-SIX INCHES apart", which is the usual 40-96 in window. |
3. The Arizona escort ladder
Not one number per dimension — the whole staircase. Each row is a condition the state actually publishes, what it requires when that condition holds, and the clause it comes from. Where a rule requires escorts and the source states no number, the row says that in the source's own words rather than reporting no requirement.
| When | What is required | Source |
|---|---|---|
| width from 10' (exclusive) to 12' and the move runs on one of 5 named segments (AZ:sr24-mp0-00-to-mp1-00, AZ:sr202loop-mp9-80-to-mp57-24, AZ:sr202loop-mp55-50-to-mp77-80, AZ:sr101loop-mp1-21-to-mp61-33, AZ:sr989-mp34-01-to-mp36-00) and the day is Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday or Friday and the time is between 07:00 and 09:00 or the time is between 16:00 and 18:00 | 1 certified escort1 behind |
SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/20…rev. · read secondary host |
| width from 11' (exclusive) to 14' and the time is between 03:00 and 12:00 and the move travels in darkness | 1 certified escort1 behind |
SECONDARY, Cornell LII. Document date: "Renum…rev. · read secondary host |
| width from 14' (exclusive) to 16' and the time is between 03:00 and 12:00 and the move travels in darkness | 2 certified escorts1 in front1 behind |
SECONDARY, Cornell LII. Document date: "Renum…rev. · read secondary host |
| height over 15' and the time is between 03:00 and 12:00 and the move travels in darkness | 1 certified escort1 in frontHeight pole required |
SECONDARY, Cornell LII. Document date: "Renum…rev. · read secondary host |
| height over 17' | 1 certified escort1 in frontHeight pole required |
SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/20…rev. · read secondary host |
| front overhang over 20' | 1 certified escort1 in front |
SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/20…rev. · read secondary host |
| rear overhang over 20' | 1 certified escort1 behind |
SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/20…rev. · read secondary host |
The first trigger in each dimension
| Measurement | First escort trigger | First police escort trigger |
|---|---|---|
| Width | over 10'rev. · read | None published |
| Height | over 15'rev. · read | None published |
| Length | None published | None published |
| Rear overhang | over 20'rev. · read | None published |
| Gross weight | None published | None published |
The same rules restated in plain sentences13 rules
- Width over 11 ft and up to 14 ft, travelling after 3:00 a.m. and before one-half hour before sunrise — one rear escort — SECONDARY, Cornell LII. Document date: "Renumbered from R17-6-408 and amended by final rulemaking at 28 A.A.R. 1264, effective 7/8/2022." Subsection (D) carries Arizona's only published width and height escort thresholds, and they apply ONLY "from 3:00 a.m. until one-half hour before sunrise". TRANSCRIPTION CAVEAT: Cornell's copy of the (A) eligibility list shows duplicated numbering ("5. 3. 120 feet or less", "6. 4. 250,000 pounds or less") and a duplicated subsection B, which look like un-stripped amendment markup; the figures are internally consistent with R17-6-205(B) and R17-6-401(A) apart from the 14 ft / 14 ft 6 in height disagreement recorded in `permitEnvelopes`. rev. · read
- Width over 14 ft and up to 16 ft, travelling after 3:00 a.m. and before one-half hour before sunrise — one front and one rear escort — SECONDARY, Cornell LII. Document date: "Renumbered from R17-6-408 and amended by final rulemaking at 28 A.A.R. 1264, effective 7/8/2022." Subsection (D) carries Arizona's only published width and height escort thresholds, and they apply ONLY "from 3:00 a.m. until one-half hour before sunrise". TRANSCRIPTION CAVEAT: Cornell's copy of the (A) eligibility list shows duplicated numbering ("5. 3. 120 feet or less", "6. 4. 250,000 pounds or less") and a duplicated subsection B, which look like un-stripped amendment markup; the figures are internally consistent with R17-6-205(B) and R17-6-401(A) apart from the 14 ft / 14 ft 6 in height disagreement recorded in `permitEnvelopes`. rev. · read
- Height over 15 ft, travelling after 3:00 a.m. and before one-half hour before sunrise — one front escort with a height pole — SECONDARY, Cornell LII. Document date: "Renumbered from R17-6-408 and amended by final rulemaking at 28 A.A.R. 1264, effective 7/8/2022." Subsection (D) carries Arizona's only published width and height escort thresholds, and they apply ONLY "from 3:00 a.m. until one-half hour before sunrise". TRANSCRIPTION CAVEAT: Cornell's copy of the (A) eligibility list shows duplicated numbering ("5. 3. 120 feet or less", "6. 4. 250,000 pounds or less") and a duplicated subsection B, which look like un-stripped amendment markup; the figures are internally consistent with R17-6-205(B) and R17-6-401(A) apart from the 14 ft / 14 ft 6 in height disagreement recorded in `permitEnvelopes`. rev. · read
- Width over 10 ft and up to 12 ft on SR 24, SR 202 Loop, SR 101 Loop or SR 989 during the weekday metropolitan curfew — one rear escort — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022 (28 A.A.R. 1264). NINETEEN named route segments with mileposts across Phoenix, Tucson and Yuma: five in subsection (C) with width-graded escort/no-transport treatment and fourteen in subsection (D) with flat no-transport. TRANSCRIPTION CAVEAT: Cornell prints the operative subsection letters duplicated as "B. C." and "C. D."; R17-6-404(A)'s own cross-references to "subsections (C) and (D)" confirm that the width table is (C) and the no-transport table is (D). rev. · read
- Width over 12 ft and up to 16 ft on SR 24, SR 202 Loop, SR 101 Loop or SR 989 during the weekday metropolitan curfew — no transport permitted — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022 (28 A.A.R. 1264). NINETEEN named route segments with mileposts across Phoenix, Tucson and Yuma: five in subsection (C) with width-graded escort/no-transport treatment and fourteen in subsection (D) with flat no-transport. TRANSCRIPTION CAVEAT: Cornell prints the operative subsection letters duplicated as "B. C." and "C. D."; R17-6-404(A)'s own cross-references to "subsections (C) and (D)" confirm that the width table is (C) and the no-transport table is (D). rev. · read
- Width over 10 ft and up to 16 ft on any of the fourteen Phoenix, Tucson or Yuma no-transport segments during the weekday metropolitan curfew — no transport permitted — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022 (28 A.A.R. 1264). NINETEEN named route segments with mileposts across Phoenix, Tucson and Yuma: five in subsection (C) with width-graded escort/no-transport treatment and fourteen in subsection (D) with flat no-transport. TRANSCRIPTION CAVEAT: Cornell prints the operative subsection letters duplicated as "B. C." and "C. D."; R17-6-404(A)'s own cross-references to "subsections (C) and (D)" confirm that the width table is (C) and the no-transport table is (D). rev. · read
- Over 10 ft wide on a metropolitan curfew segment during curfew hours, and over 16 ft high, 10 ft front overhang, 10 ft rear overhang, 120 ft overall or 250,000 lb — over the curfew-hours dimensional cap — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022 (28 A.A.R. 1264). NINETEEN named route segments with mileposts across Phoenix, Tucson and Yuma: five in subsection (C) with width-graded escort/no-transport treatment and fourteen in subsection (D) with flat no-transport. TRANSCRIPTION CAVEAT: Cornell prints the operative subsection letters duplicated as "B. C." and "C. D."; R17-6-404(A)'s own cross-references to "subsections (C) and (D)" confirm that the width table is (C) and the no-transport table is (D). rev. · read
- Front overhang over 20 ft — one front escort, at any hour on any route — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022. Subsection (C) is the ONLY numeric Arizona escort trigger with no time-of-day and no route limiter. (A)-(B) set the side-projection class boundary (class A at or under 2 ft for a load under 12 in thick, 3 ft at 12 in or more; class C above). (D) requires flags and lighting for "more than a four-foot front or rear overhang". rev. · read
- Rear overhang over 20 ft — one rear escort, at any hour on any route — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022. Subsection (C) is the ONLY numeric Arizona escort trigger with no time-of-day and no route limiter. (A)-(B) set the side-projection class boundary (class A at or under 2 ft for a load under 12 in thick, 3 ft at 12 in or more; class C above). (D) requires flags and lighting for "more than a four-foot front or rear overhang". rev. · read
- Height over 17 ft — one front escort with a height pole (R17-6-210(D), the extended approval class C rule; every Arizona load over 17 ft high is class C) — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022. The product is the Page port-of-entry houseboat move on the highways listed under Table 5 — and TABLE 5 COULD NOT BE RETRIEVED, so whether a given route is on it is unknowable from this dataset. rev. · read
- Above the class A ceiling (over 14 ft wide, 16 ft high, 120 ft long or 250,000 lb) — the extended approval class C product requires a front AND rear escort, plus traffic control at the Glen Canyon Bridge over 14 ft wide — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022. The product is the Page port-of-entry houseboat move on the highways listed under Table 5 — and TABLE 5 COULD NOT BE RETRIEVED, so whether a given route is on it is unknowable from this dataset. rev. · read
- Any Arizona load over a legal dimension — the Department determines escorts from five discretionary factors, and R17-6-305 publishes no numeric threshold — SECONDARY, Cornell LII. Document date: "New Section made by final rulemaking at 9 A.A.R. 665, effective April 8, 2003 (Supp. 03-1). Amended ... at 13 A.A.R. 866, effective March 6, 2007 (Supp. 07-1). Amended ... at 19 A.A.R. 2486, effective September 7, 2013. Amended by final rulemaking at 28 A.A.R. 1264, effective 7/8/2022." READ IN FULL: the section titled "Escort Vehicles" contains NO numeric dimensional threshold. This is the single most important citation in the file. rev. · read
- Any Arizona load over a legal dimension — a law-enforcement escort is discretionary and unpriced, and R17-6-306 publishes no numeric threshold — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022. READ IN FULL: no numeric threshold. The Department "may require additional traffic control by a uniformed certified law enforcement officer", considering the R17-6-305(A) criteria, and the permittee must contact the Arizona Department of Public Safety "at least 12 hours before transport". rev. · read
4. Arizona single-trip permit fees
| Charge | Amount |
|---|---|
| Single-trip base | $0rev. · read secondary hostCorroboration from the application rule rather than the fee statute: A.A.C. R17-6-103 (Application Procedure) was read in full and names no base, processing, issuance, service or card charge either. (A)(1)(b) contemplates applying "through the Department's electronic service provider if the appropriate permit is available for online purchase", which implies a possible third-party convenience charge — no amount is published in the statute or the rule, and the ADOT pages that would state one are HTTP 403. This zero therefore covers the AGENCY's charge only. |
| Transaction / card | None publishedundated document · read AFFIRMATIVELY CHECKED, NOT ASSUMED. A.R.S. § 28-1105 (read in full) names only the permit fees themselves, the government exemption and the local-authority offset. A.A.C. R17-6-103 (Application Procedure, read in full) names no charge of any kind. THE ZERO COVERS THE AGENCY ONLY: R17-6-103(A)(1)(b) allows application "through the Department's electronic service provider if the appropriate permit is available for online purchase", no amount is published anywhere in the statute or the rule, and the ADOT commercial-vehicle-permit and EZ Pay pages that would state an e-service-provider convenience fee return HTTP 403 to every automated request. An online Arizona purchase may therefore carry a third-party charge this file does not hold. |
| Route analysis review | $15rev. · read secondary hostR17-6-211(A)'s class C fee table: "In addition to the standard permit fees above, the Department shall collect the following class C review and analysis fee(s) as applicable to the applicant's proposed vehicle and load configuration: Class C review and analysis fee (A.R.S. § 28-1103) — Height or width 18 FEET OR LESS → $15; Height or width OVER 18 FEET → $25." THE $25 FIGURE IS REAL AND IS NOT ENCODED AS A SECOND ROW: the step is on a load dimension, which `Sourced.appliesWhen` cannot express, and two unconditioned rows would conflict and suppress the charge entirely. A class C move over 18 ft in height or width owes $25 here, not $15. THE ENGINEERING ANALYSIS IS SEPARATE AND LARGER: "Engineering analysis (A.R.S. § 28-1103) — Prepared by non-ADOT engineer, and reviewed by ADOT engineer → $75 PER 50 MILE INCREMENT of proposed route; Prepared by ADOT engineer → $125 PER 50 MILE INCREMENT of proposed route." That component is mileage-dependent and is recorded in `feeDistanceDependence`; the engineer's own fee is not a state charge. The statutory authority for both is A.R.S. § 28-1103(B): the director "may establish fees to cover all or part of the cost of review and analysis of requests for overdimensional and overweight load permits ... in addition to the special permit fee". A tridem class C variant is priced the same way — R17-6-212(B) directs the applicant to "include the $75 standard permit fee with the $15 class C review and analysis fee as provided under R17-6-211". |
| Route with no bridges | Not yet covered |
Dimension bands
| Band | Fee |
|---|---|
| oversize only — flat, whatever the load measures | $15undated document · read § 28-1105(A)(1): "Except as otherwise provided by law, the following fees are required: 1. FIFTEEN DOLLARS FOR EACH SPECIAL PERMIT ISSUED PURSUANT TO SECTION 28-1103 FOR EXCESS SIZE, except that a thirty dollar fee is required for each thirty day permit and a three hundred sixty dollar fee is required for each annual permit." FLAT — not banded by width, height or length, not stepped by distance, no formula, no minimum, no maximum and no rounding language anywhere in the section. A 9 ft load and a 17 ft load pay the same $15. The thirty-day and annual products are not single-trip alternatives and are not applied. |
| oversize only — flat, whatever the load measures | $15rev. · read R17-6-201(A)'s own fee table: "Standard permit fee for weight not exceeding 80,000 pounds (A.R.S. § 28-1105) — Single trip: 96-hour maximum — $15". The class A single-trip permit runs for a "96-hour maximum". R17-6-211(A)'s class C table prints the same figure for a superload: "Oversize only $15". Two bodies, the same number, which is the only cross-check available while apps.azsos.gov and azdot.gov are 403. |
5. How Arizona prices overweight
Graduated weight bands. A.R.S. § 28-1105(A)(2): "Except as provided in paragraph 4 of this subsection, SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS FOR EACH PERMIT and each thirty day permit issued pursuant to section 28-1103 FOR EXCESS WEIGHT, except that a six hundred dollar fee is required for each annual permit." A flat amount — not weight-stepped bands, not per mile, not per ton-mile, no "per increment over the legal limit", no base weight over which excess is measured, no stated minimum, no stated maximum and no rounding language at all. It is recorded as a one-row band so that a single row is unmistakably a published flat fee rather than a research gap.
The bands, as published
| Gross weight | Axles | Fee | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 lb and up | any | $75 | PRIMARY, azleg.gov raw HTML, no date stated. …undated document · read |
| 0 lb and up | any | $75 | SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/20…rev. · read secondary host |
6. Arizona seasonal posting windows
A permit priced against an unposted-road assumption in March is simply wrong, and wrong in the expensive direction. This is the window we watch, the basis for that window in the state's own orders or statute, and the authority that posts it.
Arizona is not in the seasonal-restriction registry, so we hold no posting window for it and are not inventing one.
7. Arizona's superload threshold
Above one of these, the state stops issuing over the counter and prices the move after an engineering review.
| Trigger | Threshold |
|---|---|
| Gross weight | over 250,000 lbrev. · read secondary hostR17-6-211(A): "The Department shall issue a single trip CLASS C oversize, overweight, or oversize and overweight special permit for a specific non-reducible vehicle, combination of vehicles, or vehicle and load combination that EXCEEDS 250,000 POUNDS, a maximum permitted weight computation for overweight axle group weight distribution as provided under R17-6-411, an oversize or overweight special permit limitation provided under this Article, or a highway-specific restriction, requirement, condition, or allowance provided under R17-6-412, Table 4". R17-6-211(F): "The Department shall require a class C special permit for an overweight vehicle or vehicle and load combination HEAVIER THAN 250,000 POUNDS or that exceeds the maximum permitted weight computations for overweight axle group weight distribution as provided under R17-6-411." "EXCEEDS" AND "HEAVIER THAN" ARE EXCLUSIVE — 250,000 lb exactly is still class A and 250,001 lb is class C, hence `inclusive: false`. NOT OVER THE COUNTER: the R17-6-211 table says "Permit option - requires pre-approval by the Class C Unit — Single trip only". TWO FURTHER CLASS C TRIGGERS CANNOT BE EVALUATED HERE: exceeding the R17-6-411 axle-group computations (Tables 3.01-3.09 and Illustration 3, which could not be retrieved) and any Table 4 highway-specific restriction (served live, not held). |
| Width | over 14'rev. · read secondary hostR17-6-201(A)'s class A table: "A specific non-reducible vehicle or load over a threshold dimension provided under R17-6-102, Table 1, to a maximum: WIDTH 14 FEET / Height 16 feet / Overall length 120 feet / Weight 250,000 lbs." EXCLUSIVE — 14 ft is the class A maximum, so 14 ft exactly is class A and over 14 ft is class C. R17-6-212(E) states the same 14 ft figure, which is corroboration on width even though it disagrees on weight. |
| Height | over 16'rev. · read secondary hostR17-6-201(A), same table: "Height 16 feet" as the class A maximum. EXCLUSIVE. Corroborated by R17-6-212(E)'s "16 feet in height" and by R17-6-404(A)(1)'s 16 ft curfew-hours height cap. This is also why `az-210d-class-c-height-over-17ft-front-escort-with-height-pole` can be applied generally: anything over 17 ft high in Arizona is necessarily class C. |
| Length | over 120'rev. · read secondary hostR17-6-201(A), same table: "Overall length 120 feet" as the class A maximum. EXCLUSIVE. Corroborated by R17-6-212(E), R17-6-401(A)(5), R17-6-402(A) and R17-6-404(A)(4), all of which use 120 ft. NOTE THAT THIS IS A PERMIT-CLASS CEILING AND NOT A LEGAL LIMIT — Arizona publishes no general legal overall-length cap at all, which is why `legalLimits.overallLengthIn` is absent. |
| Short axle spacing | Not yet covered |
8. Route survey and bridge review
The dimensions at which Arizona triggers a physical route inspection or an engineering review, and what the agency charges to review it.
| Measurement | Inspection / review trigger |
|---|---|
| Width | Not yet covered |
| Height | Not yet covered |
| Length | Not yet covered |
9. Police escorts
Charges exist and no schedule is published. ARIZONA PUBLISHES THE BILLING MECHANISM AND NOT THE RATE. ADOT's Escort Information and Guidelines page sets out how a DPS escort is paid for — "The Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS), requires payment for DPS officers performing oversize-overweight vehicle escorts to be made electronically... On completion of the officer-assisted vehicle escort, DPS, using EZ DPS Escorts, will electronically bill the carrier for total escort expenses incurred, plus a $4.00 administrative fee for each transaction" — and the only figure on it is that $4.00 transaction fee. "Total escort expenses incurred" is not a rate. No hourly figure, minimum hours, officer minimum, mileage rate or cancellation charge appears on that page, on the pages it links (Escort Vehicles Rules and Regulations, Law Enforcement Escort Best Practices Guidelines, Route Restriction Table 4), or in A.R.S. 28-1110. THE $93.18 PER HOUR PER TROOPER FIGURE IS NOT ADOPTED: it is quoted by commercial permit services as an increase effective 30 May 2022 and appears in no ADOT or AZ DPS publication, and a $4.00 fee is not grounds for filing Arizona as a state that publishes a rate.
This is a positive finding: we searched and there is nothing to quote. It is not the same as "no police escort is ever required here".
10. When you can move it
Holiday, curfew and night-travel windows are not yet encoded for Arizona. The seasonal picture — which is a different question — is in section 6 above.
Why those windows are absent rather than estimated
They are not guessed at here. What we do publish is the seasonal weight-restriction picture, with the date we last read each state's own bulletin — a curfew invented from a plausible pattern is worth less than an honest gap, because a reader cannot tell the two apart on the page.
11. Permit office
The agency behind each figure above is linked from that figure. We publish no per-state permit-office phone number.
Why there is no phone number here
We are not publishing per-state permit-office phone numbers yet, and the reason is worth stating: the two seed lists available for them are both demonstrably stale — the federal one gives two different states the same phone number — and a wrong number on a page like this costs somebody a morning. The agency behind each figure above is linked from that figure, which is the part we can stand behind today.
12. What this does not include
Named rather than gestured at, because each of these can exceed the permit itself. Every item is listed; open one for why it is excluded.
Line haul, fuel and driver time
This is a permit fee, not a freight rate.
Civilian pilot car rates
We hold no rate data, and the two commercial sites that publish market rates disagree by nearly a factor of two on the same service.
Route-survey engineering
The agency's review fee is shown where the state publishes one; the engineer's own fee is a private cost with no schedule.
Bonds and escrow
Set per move by the agency, and in at least one state the escort is billed at actual cost against it.
Utility coordination and line lifts
Arranged with each utility, priced by each utility.
Second-issuer permits
A toll, bridge or city authority inside the same state issues its own permit, and a state total that omits it is missing a whole permit.
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13. Every source behind this page (16)
Every document behind Arizona16 sources
- A.R.S. § 28-1093 — Vehicle width; exceptions — Arizona State Legislature — PRIMARY, raw HTML from the legislature's own statute host. The page carries no date or supplement stamp. Source of the 8 ft baseline and the 102 in designated-system width.
undated document · read - A.R.S. § 28-1094 — Vehicle height; exceptions; special permits — Arizona State Legislature — PRIMARY, azleg.gov raw HTML, no date stated. Source of the 13 ft 6 in statewide height, the 14 ft designated-system allowance, and the two height-specific permit fees ($45 annual at or under 14 ft laden height, $15 single trip over 14 ft).
undated document · read - A.R.S. § 28-1095 — Vehicle length; exceptions; permits; rules; definitions — Arizona State Legislature — PRIMARY, azleg.gov raw HTML, no date stated. Source of the 57 ft 6 in semitrailer limit, the conditional 65 ft combination caps, the 40 ft single vehicle, and the vehicle-type-specific overhang figures that are NOT general limits.
undated document · read - A.R.S. § 28-1100 — Vehicles and loads; gross weight restrictions; exceptions — Arizona State Legislature — PRIMARY, azleg.gov raw HTML, no date stated. Source of the 20,000 lb single axle, the 34,000 lb tandem, the 80,000 lb five-or-more-axle gross and the bridge formula W = 500 (LN/(N-1) + 12N + 36).
undated document · read - A.R.S. § 28-1105 — Special permit fees — Arizona State Legislature — PRIMARY, azleg.gov raw HTML, no date stated. READ IN FULL. Source of $15 oversize, $75 overweight, the subsection (A)(3) rule that the overweight amount governs a both-oversize-and-overweight permit, the (B) government exemption, the (C)-(D) local-authority fee offset, and the affirmative absence of any transaction, processing, service or credit-card charge.
undated document · read - Ariz. Admin. Code § R17-6-103 — Application Procedure — Arizona Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — SECONDARY — apps.azsos.gov and azdot.gov are 403. Rule effective 7/8/2022 (28 A.A.R. 1264). READ IN FULL for a transaction, processing, service or card charge: none appears. (A)(1)(b) does contemplate applying "through the Department's electronic service provider", with no amount published.
rev. · read secondary host - Ariz. Admin. Code § R17-6-201 — Class A single trip permit; fee table and ceiling — Arizona Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022 (28 A.A.R. 1264). Its fee table corroborates the statute exactly — "Standard permit fee for weight not exceeding 80,000 pounds (A.R.S. § 28-1105) — Single trip: 96-hour maximum — $15" and "Overweight permit fee for weight exceeding the legal threshold under R17-6-102, Table 1, but not exceeding 250,000 pounds — Single trip — $75" — and states the class A dimensional ceiling of 14 ft / 16 ft / 120 ft / 250,000 lb.
rev. · read secondary host - Ariz. Admin. Code § R17-6-205 — Specialty equipment envelope permit — Arizona Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022. (B)(2) states the specialty-equipment height as "14 feet 6 inches", which R17-6-402(B)(2) contradicts at "14 feet". One side of a recorded, unresolved conflict.
rev. · read secondary host - Ariz. Admin. Code § R17-6-210 — Extended approval class C special permit (Table 5 highways) — Arizona Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022. The product is the Page port-of-entry houseboat move on the highways listed under Table 5 — and TABLE 5 COULD NOT BE RETRIEVED, so whether a given route is on it is unknowable from this dataset.
rev. · read secondary host - Ariz. Admin. Code § R17-6-211 — Class C single trip special permit; review, analysis and engineering fees — Arizona Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — SECONDARY, Cornell LII. Document date: "New section made by final rulemaking at 19 A.A.R. 2486, effective September 7, 2013. Renumbered from R17-6-204 and amended by final rulemaking at 28 A.A.R. 1264, effective 7/8/2022." Source of the "exceeds 250,000 pounds" class C trigger, the "requires pre-approval by the Class C Unit" note, and the $15/$25 review-and-analysis and $75/$125-per-50-mile engineering-analysis fees.
rev. · read secondary host - Ariz. Admin. Code § R17-6-305 — Escort Vehicles — Arizona Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — SECONDARY, Cornell LII. Document date: "New Section made by final rulemaking at 9 A.A.R. 665, effective April 8, 2003 (Supp. 03-1). Amended ... at 13 A.A.R. 866, effective March 6, 2007 (Supp. 07-1). Amended ... at 19 A.A.R. 2486, effective September 7, 2013. Amended by final rulemaking at 28 A.A.R. 1264, effective 7/8/2022." READ IN FULL: the section titled "Escort Vehicles" contains NO numeric dimensional threshold. This is the single most important citation in the file.
rev. · read secondary host - Ariz. Admin. Code § R17-6-306 — Law enforcement traffic control — Arizona Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022. READ IN FULL: no numeric threshold. The Department "may require additional traffic control by a uniformed certified law enforcement officer", considering the R17-6-305(A) criteria, and the permittee must contact the Arizona Department of Public Safety "at least 12 hours before transport".
rev. · read secondary host - Ariz. Admin. Code § R17-6-307 — Projecting loads and excess overhang; escorts — Arizona Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022. Subsection (C) is the ONLY numeric Arizona escort trigger with no time-of-day and no route limiter. (A)-(B) set the side-projection class boundary (class A at or under 2 ft for a load under 12 in thick, 3 ft at 12 in or more; class C above). (D) requires flags and lighting for "more than a four-foot front or rear overhang".
rev. · read secondary host - Ariz. Admin. Code § R17-6-402 — Night and Weekend Transport — Arizona Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — SECONDARY, Cornell LII. Document date: "Renumbered from R17-6-408 and amended by final rulemaking at 28 A.A.R. 1264, effective 7/8/2022." Subsection (D) carries Arizona's only published width and height escort thresholds, and they apply ONLY "from 3:00 a.m. until one-half hour before sunrise". TRANSCRIPTION CAVEAT: Cornell's copy of the (A) eligibility list shows duplicated numbering ("5. 3. 120 feet or less", "6. 4. 250,000 pounds or less") and a duplicated subsection B, which look like un-stripped amendment markup; the figures are internally consistent with R17-6-205(B) and R17-6-401(A) apart from the 14 ft / 14 ft 6 in height disagreement recorded in `permitEnvelopes`.
rev. · read secondary host - Ariz. Admin. Code § R17-6-404 — Metropolitan Curfew Transport Restriction — Arizona Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022 (28 A.A.R. 1264). NINETEEN named route segments with mileposts across Phoenix, Tucson and Yuma: five in subsection (C) with width-graded escort/no-transport treatment and fourteen in subsection (D) with flat no-transport. TRANSCRIPTION CAVEAT: Cornell prints the operative subsection letters duplicated as "B. C." and "C. D."; R17-6-404(A)'s own cross-references to "subsections (C) and (D)" confirm that the width table is (C) and the no-transport table is (D).
rev. · read secondary host - Ariz. Admin. Code § R17-6-412 — Table 4 highway-specific restrictions, served live — Arizona Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — SECONDARY, Cornell LII; rule effective 7/8/2022 (28 A.A.R. 1264). (B), (C) and (G) make the promulgated table a snapshot, mandate a DAILY check of www.azdot.gov, and require ADOT to publish "real-time updates as an addendum to Table 4". (E) caps law-enforcement escorts: "When more than two escort vehicles are required on a route listed under Table 4 due to excess height, length, width, or weight, only two law enforcement escorts are required". THE TABLE'S OWN CONTENTS COULD NOT BE RETRIEVED — the ADOT PDF is 403.
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Questions
How much is an oversize permit in Arizona?
The single-trip base is $0, before the dimension bands, the overweight component and the transaction charge. The base alone is rarely what is paid.
When does Arizona require a pilot car?
The first width trigger is over 10'.
What is a superload in Arizona?
Arizona's published gross-weight superload line is over 250,000 lb. It is not 80,000 lb; that is the federal legal gross limit, not a superload threshold.