Pennsylvania oversize and overweight permits

• Over 13 ft wide — one pilot car (following on a highway with two or more lanes in the direction of travel, preceding where there is only one) — §179.9 additional fees; §179.10 pilot cars and police escorts rev. 1993-08-13 · read 2026-09-01
• Over 14 ft 6 in high — one pilot car preceding by 1,000–3,000 ft with a height pole, on all highways — §179.9 additional fees; §179.10 pilot cars and police escorts rev. 1993-08-13 · read 2026-09-01
• Over 90 ft long — one pilot car following, on all highways — §179.9 additional fees; §179.10 pilot cars and police escorts rev. 1993-08-13 · read 2026-09-01
• Load extending more than 15 ft beyond the rear of the combination — one pilot car following, on all highways — §179.9 additional fees; §179.10 pilot cars and police escorts rev. 1993-08-13 · read 2026-09-01
• Over 13 ft but not over 14 ft wide and over 90 ft but not over 120 ft long — one pilot car only, positioned front or rear by PennDOT — amended 2014-06-30, effective 60 days later rev. 2014-06-30 · read 2026-09-01
• Super load, or a building over 16 ft wide — police escort requirement, on which the regulation and the later statute disagree — amended 2015-10-30, effective 60 days later rev. 2015-10-30 · read 2026-09-01
• Pennsylvania adds escort and cost conditions that are set when the permit issues, and publishes no price for several of them — §179.9 additional fees; §179.10 pilot cars and police escorts rev. 1993-08-13 · read 2026-09-01

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.

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.

This is a permit fee, not a freight rate.

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.

The agency's review fee is shown where the state publishes one; the engineer's own fee is a private cost with no schedule.

Set per move by the agency, and in at least one state the escort is billed at actual cost against it.

Arranged with each utility, priced by each utility.

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.