Lenght of RV and trailer
Thinking about buying a stacker trailer. Would make my RV with trailer 75 ft long. Anyone have troubles when it comes to the law?
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If you were registered commercial, you can buy permits in most states to exceed length, width, height and weight limits. This is how triple tows get put together, and how rigs move across the Plains at weights of 100,000 to 120,000 pounds. Long and heavy combinations are usually permitted as "self escorted" if not over width.
It is also how big equipment like wind generator parts, refinery equipment, and drilling rigs get moved. It is how manufactured housing gets moved.
A lot of the really oversize equipment is kept off the Interstate Highway systems. Oklahoma and Kansas keep the wind generator parts off the Interstates and tollways. Permits are issued state by state, which is why there are big parking areas at the state line on the highways used, where these movements wait for escorts and permits. In most states, a commercial escort service has to be licensed for the state, and in some communities, local police escorts are necessary where other traffic must be held up to move a big rig past a pinch point.
What you see moving on the highway is thus not indicative of what you are allowed to do with a private use vehicle and an ordinary driver's license.
It is also how big equipment like wind generator parts, refinery equipment, and drilling rigs get moved. It is how manufactured housing gets moved.
A lot of the really oversize equipment is kept off the Interstate Highway systems. Oklahoma and Kansas keep the wind generator parts off the Interstates and tollways. Permits are issued state by state, which is why there are big parking areas at the state line on the highways used, where these movements wait for escorts and permits. In most states, a commercial escort service has to be licensed for the state, and in some communities, local police escorts are necessary where other traffic must be held up to move a big rig past a pinch point.
What you see moving on the highway is thus not indicative of what you are allowed to do with a private use vehicle and an ordinary driver's license.
