The Missouri MoDOT motor carrier services announced some oversize and overweight rule changes that will go into effect on March 31, 2025.
The rule updates includes the following:
- Reduces barriers for the oversize and specialized hauling transportation industry while preserving a risk averse priority to highway safety
- Maximizes access to off-peak system capacity
- Relaxes width restriction to allow loads up to but not exceeding sixteen feet (16’) to travel on weekends
- Increases the width threshold for nighttime travel to allow loads up to but not exceeding twelve feet six inches (12’6”) wide
- Increases the length threshold for nighttime travel to allow loads up to but not exceeding one hundred ten feet (110’) in length
- Increases the threshold to require escorts to apply to overlength loads exceeding one hundred ten feet (110’)
- Promulgates a new escort requirement for overlength loads exceeding one hundred twenty-five feet (125’) on all highways
- Streamlines and simplifies holiday restrictions to align with MoDOT contractor work restrictions
- Redefines outmoded and ambiguous travel way descriptors by eliminating references to “dual lane” and “multilane” highways
- Authorizes the use of roadway geometric modeling software for overlength vehicle route surveys
- And cleans up various housekeeping items and codifies existing business requirements into the administrative rule