Two official documents, both in effect, giving different answers. Neither has been adopted.
legal gross weight
80,000 lbMiss. Code Ann. § 63-5-33 (via FindLaw — SECONDARY source) — Table III — 80,000 lb, but only on highways the Commission has designated as capable of the maximum load limits; the federal bridge formula; FindLaw states "Current as of January 01, 2025"
rev. 2025-01-01 · read 2026-09-05 Both are in effect and neither has been adopted.
superload gross-weight threshold
Both are in effect and neither has been adopted.
An overweight rate printed in the wrong unit, 200 times apart
Read literally, ".05 cents" is $0.0005 per 1,000 lb per mile and a 100,000 lb load over 100 Mississippi miles costs $1.00 in excess-weight charge. Read as the industry reads it — five cents, $0.05 — the same move costs $100.00. A factor of ONE HUNDRED, in the only document that states a Mississippi permit price. There is NO statutory backstop: Miss. Code Ann. § 63-5-51 authorises the permit and sets no fee, no formula and no fee-setting delegation, and both the Rule and the Manual describe overweight pricing as "based on weight and per mile travel" without a rate. Three further inputs the same sentence never supplies: whether a part-thousand pounds rounds up, down or pro rata; whether mileage is whole miles, rounded or true distance; and WHICH excess the charge runs on, since gross over 80,000, a single axle over 20,000 and a tandem over 34,000 are joined by "or" with no stated basis. Neither reading has been adopted and no Mississippi overweight amount is quoted.
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A heavy-haul axle table rewritten wholesale between two live documents
Both documents print a table headed "Maximum Axle Weights and Minimum Spacing / Special Heavy Haul Blanket Permit" and they do not agree on a single row above five axles. SIX AXLES: the Rule prints 80,000-120,000 lb with a 14,000 lb steering axle, a 42,000 lb tandem and a 64,000 lb tri-axle; the Manual prints 80,000-117,000 lb with a 15,000 lb steering axle, a 45,000 lb tandem and a 57,000 lb triaxle. SEVEN AXLES OR MORE: the Rule prints 80,000-150,000 lb with a 56,000 lb tandem and an 80,000 lb quad; the Manual prints 80,000-142,000 lb with a 45,000 lb tandem and a 60,000 lb quad. The Manual also introduces an "Eight Axles or More (80,000 lbs. to 150,000 lbs.)" row the Rule does not have. The differences run to 20,000 lb on a quad group and 8,000 lb of allowed gross. The five-axle row (14,000 / 40,500 / 40,500) is the one row both share. Anyone pricing a Mississippi Special Heavy Haul move must know which table the permit writer is using. Neither has been adopted, and this engine does not price the annual blanket product.
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An annual blanket envelope that gains a height limit in one document
Rule § 900: "Authorizes the movement of loads not exceeding 14 feet in width, 120 feet in length with no more than 14 feet 11 inches rear overhang and must be one continuous piece." — no height at all. Manual: "This permit authorizes the movement of loads not exceeding fourteen (14) feet in width, FOURTEEN (14) FEET IN HEIGHT, one hundred twenty (120) feet in length, with no more than fourteen (14) feet eleven (11) inches rear overhang." A 14 ft 6 in high, 12 ft wide load is inside the Rule’s envelope and outside the Manual’s — covered by the $100 annual blanket under one document and needing a separate single-trip permit under the other.
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The same $200 permit lasts a year in one document and a month in the other
The fee sheet lists "Pole Blanket $200.00" under Blanket Fees and states that "The Blanket Permits are not prorated, all permits are issued for one (1) year unless otherwise specified". The Manual states "The Pole Blanket Permit is valid for one (1) month at a cost of $200.00 per fleet of vehicles." A twelvefold difference in what $200 buys. The fee sheet’s "unless otherwise specified" arguably yields to the Manual, but the fee sheet does not itself specify otherwise. Both on file; neither adopted.
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