The short version: a Nevada single-trip permit starts at $25 before bands, overweight and the transaction charge; an escort is first required at over 12' wide; and the load becomes a superload at a gross weight the state does not publish. Everything below carries the Nevada document it came from, that document's own revision date, and the date we read it.
1. Nevada 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"rev. 2008-06-17 · read 2026-09-05 |
| Height | 14'rev. 2008-06-17 · read 2026-09-05 |
| Semitrailer length | Not yet covered |
| Overall length | 70'undated document · read 2026-09-05 |
| Kingpin to rear axle | None published |
| Front overhang | 10'undated document · read 2026-09-05 |
| Rear overhang | 10'undated document · read 2026-09-05 |
| Gross weight | Not yet covered |
| Single axle | 20,000 lbundated document · read 2026-09-05 |
| Tandem axle | 34,000 lbundated document · read 2026-09-05 |
2. When Nevada requires an escort
| Measurement | First escort trigger | First police escort trigger |
|---|---|---|
| Width | over 12'rev. 2019-08-21 · read 2026-09-05 · varies by road class | None published |
| Height | over 15'6"rev. 2019-08-21 · read 2026-09-05 | None published |
| Length | over 110'rev. 2019-08-21 · read 2026-09-05 | None published |
| Rear overhang | over 25'rev. 2019-08-21 · read 2026-09-05 | None published |
| Gross weight | None published | None published |
Every escort rule on file, in full9 rules
- Front overhang over 25 ft — one lead pilot car — Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/2019". The freshest Nevada document in this file by eleven years. rev. 2019-08-21 · read 2026-09-05
- Height over 15 ft 6 in — one lead pilot car, which must carry a clearance pole — Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/2019". The freshest Nevada document in this file by eleven years. rev. 2019-08-21 · read 2026-09-05
- Width over 12 ft, on a two- or three-lane highway or during holiday hours or darkness — one lead pilot car — Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/2019". The freshest Nevada document in this file by eleven years. rev. 2019-08-21 · read 2026-09-05
- Width over 16 ft — one lead pilot car, on any road at any hour — Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/2019". The freshest Nevada document in this file by eleven years. rev. 2019-08-21 · read 2026-09-05
- Rear overhang over 25 ft — one following pilot car — Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/2019". The freshest Nevada document in this file by eleven years. rev. 2019-08-21 · read 2026-09-05
- Length over 110 ft — one following pilot car (the rule allows 120 ft for a vehicle with mechanically steered rear axles, which a quote does not state) — Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/2019". The freshest Nevada document in this file by eleven years. rev. 2019-08-21 · read 2026-09-05
- Width over 14 ft — one following pilot car, on any road at any hour — Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/2019". The freshest Nevada document in this file by eleven years. rev. 2019-08-21 · read 2026-09-05
- Width over 12 ft during holiday hours or darkness — one following pilot car (no lane-count limb, unlike the lead rule) — Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/2019". The freshest Nevada document in this file by eleven years. rev. 2019-08-21 · read 2026-09-05
- Over 17 ft wide on two or three lanes, over 19 ft wide on four or more lanes, or over 16 ft high — NDOT MAY require an additional pilot car, utility escorts and law-enforcement traffic control — Subsection 12 is the only law-enforcement hook anywhere in NAC 484D, and it is a discretionary coordination power rather than an escort requirement. rev. 2008-06-17 · read 2026-09-05
3. Nevada single-trip permit fees
| Charge | Amount |
|---|---|
| Single-trip base | $25rev. 2008-06-17 · read 2026-09-05 |
| Transaction / card | Not yet covered |
| Route analysis review | Not yet covered |
| Route with no bridges | Not yet covered |
4. How Nevada prices overweight
The overweight pricing model is not resolved for Nevada on 2026-09-09; the permit must be priced by the agency.
5. Nevada'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 | None published |
| Width | None published |
| Height | None published |
| Length | None published |
| Short axle spacing | Not yet covered |
6. Route survey and bridge review
The dimensions at which Nevada 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 |
7. Police escorts
No schedule exists, and that is structural rather than a gap. Nevada has no police escort rate because it has no police escort requirement to price. No provision in NAC 484D or NRS 484D mandates a Nevada Highway Patrol escort at any dimension or any weight. NAC 484D.640(12) is the only law-enforcement hook in the chapter, and it is a discretion to "coordinate additional utilities escorts and traffic control with the appropriate law enforcement agencies" over 17 ft wide on two or three lanes, over 19 ft on four or more, or over 16 ft high — coordination, not an officer escort. NAC 484D.670(5)(c) does confirm the Highway Patrol runs its own amber-light permit on the pilot car under NRS 484D.185, and publishes no price for that either. NAC 484D.500-695 and the reachable NRS 484D sections were read in full; dot.nv.gov and leg.state.nv.us were both unreachable from the researching network. Claims that every superload requires an NHP escort appear only on commercial permit-service sites and are not adopted.
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".
8. When you can move it
Holiday, curfew and night-travel windows are not yet encoded for Nevada.
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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.
9. 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.
11. 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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12. Every source behind this page (8)
Every document behind Nevada8 sources
- NAC 484D.635 — Fees for permits — Nevada Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — Amendment history: "NAC A by Dep't of Transportation, 2-3-94; R127-98, 7-22-99; R113-02, 10-16-2002; R113-02, 10-16-2002, eff. 1-1-2003; R161-07, 6-17-2008". Last amended 2008 — eighteen years, which for a fee schedule is unusual and is consistent with the cost-recovery cap rather than with neglect.
rev. 2008-06-17 · read 2026-09-05 - NAC 484D.640 — Conditions of permits; additional pilot cars and utility escorts — Nevada Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — Subsection 12 is the only law-enforcement hook anywhere in NAC 484D, and it is a discretionary coordination power rather than an escort requirement.
rev. 2008-06-17 · read 2026-09-05 - NAC 484D.650 — When a permit is required — Nevada Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — Amendment history closes "R161-07, 6-17-2008".
rev. 2008-06-17 · read 2026-09-05 - NAC 484D.670 — Pilot cars — Nevada Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/2019". The freshest Nevada document in this file by eleven years.
rev. 2019-08-21 · read 2026-09-05 - NRS 484D.605 — Height of vehicles — Nevada Revised Statutes (via nevada.public.law) — SECONDARY, as above. Corroborated by NAC 484D.650(1)(f).
undated document · read 2026-09-05 - NRS 484D.615 — Length of vehicles and combinations — Nevada Revised Statutes (via nevada.public.law) — SECONDARY, as above. Corroborated by NAC 484D.650(1)(c)–(e).
undated document · read 2026-09-05 - NRS 484D.635 — Weight of vehicles; bridge formula — Nevada Revised Statutes (via nevada.public.law) — SECONDARY, as above. NOTE THE ABSENCE: this section states axle, tandem, per-tire, tire-count and bridge-formula limits and NO flat gross-weight cap.
undated document · read 2026-09-05 - NRS 484D.685 — Width of vehicles — Nevada Revised Statutes (via nevada.public.law) — SECONDARY. leg.state.nv.us was unreachable from the researching network. The reproduction carries no revision line; its own stamp reads "accessed May 26, 2025". Corroborated by NAC 484D.650(1)(b), which states the same 102 in threshold.
undated document · read 2026-09-05
Questions
How much is an oversize permit in Nevada?
The single-trip base is $25, before the dimension bands, the overweight component and the transaction charge. The base alone is rarely what is paid.
When does Nevada require a pilot car?
The first width trigger is over 12', and it varies by road class — the figure shown is the lowest across classes.
What is a superload in Nevada?
Nevada publishes no gross-weight superload threshold in the documents on file — see the superload section, which shows the dimensional triggers it does publish.