Georgia oversize and overweight permits: types and conditions

What the cited provisions say

O.C.G.A. 32-6-28(b)(1) provides annual permits lasting 12 months from issuance, ordinarily limited to 100,000 pounds total gross weight, 25,000 pounds per single axle, 100 feet total load length, 102 inches vehicle width, 144 inches load width, and 14 feet and six inches height. O.C.G.A. 32-6-28(b)(2) allows otherwise qualifying annual-permit vehicles and loads to seek annual plus permission on the NHS for widths of 14 feet through 10 feet above pavement and 14 feet and eight inches above that point.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

O.C.G.A. 32-6-28(b)(4) permits six-month authorization for tobacco or unginned cotton loads no wider than nine feet, excluding interstate travel. O.C.G.A. 32-6-28(b)(5) and (6) limit single-trip and multitrip issuance to vehicles or loads allowed by federal law. O.C.G.A. 32-6-28(b)(6) allows unlimited permitted loads within ten days using the same configuration and route; its return-movement authorization allows departmental specification otherwise.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Who and what the provisions cover

Rule 672-2-.01(a) connects non-divisible loads and vehicles to the referenced federal definition or O.C.G.A. 32-6-28, while recognizing exemptions. Rule 672-2-.01(i) defines a single-trip permit as usable once during its specified times, identifying the load, transporter, origin, and destination. O.C.G.A. 32-6-24(a)(4) defines NHS as the National Highway System.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

O.C.G.A. 32-6-28(a)(2) permits annual authorizations without license plate numbers so they can move between vehicles. Rule 672-2-.03(i) restricts that interchange to vehicles owned by the same permit holder, treats leased vehicles as owned for this purpose when lease proof is shown, and rejects photostatic permit copies. O.C.G.A. 32-6-28(a)(3) requires the permit in the relevant vehicle and available for authorized inspection.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

O.C.G.A. 32-6-28(b)(3) covers annual emergency towing of disabled, damaged, abandoned, or wrecked commercial vehicles, including combinations, subject to its single-axle, tandem-axle, and total-load-length limits.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Conditions and exceptions

O.C.G.A. 32-6-28(a)(1)(A) removes the dismantling restriction for cotton, tobacco, concrete pipe, and plywood loads no wider than nine feet, and round hay bales no wider than 11 feet, when movement excludes interstate highways. O.C.G.A. 32-6-28(a)(1)(A) also allows a truck tractor and low boy trailer to return to origin under the original permit after delivering the permitted load.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Rule 672-2-.02(4) bars permitted travel inside Interstate 285 unless making a pickup or delivery there with proof available, and additionally bars movement there from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Rule 672-2-.03(d) confines movement to permitted roads, requires compliance with posted bridge limits, and requires single-trip routing or designated detour routes. O.C.G.A. 32-6-28(a)(6) allows immediate invalidation for breached operating restrictions. Under Rule 672-2-.09(3), the permit requester has a right to an administrative hearing before suspension becomes final; if a hearing is requested, suspension becomes effective on the date of the order finally disposing of administrative review.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Related provisions in the saved sources

O.C.G.A. 32-6-25 exempts farming, agricultural, and forest management equipment, whether self-propelled or hauled, from width and length limits during daylight operation on noninterstate public roads by dealers or by the owner or the owner's agent within 40 miles of the dealer's or owner's property; vehicles hauling or transporting forest products are excluded. Rule 672-2-.06(3)(b) nevertheless requires front and rear escorts when such exempt equipment is wider than a road lane.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

O.C.G.A. 32-6-25.1 exempts vehicles or equipment transporting cargo or containers between and within wharves, storage areas, or terminals within facilities of a port under Georgia Ports Authority jurisdiction from width and length limits when operated by the owner or the owner's agent on noninterstate public roads within ten miles of the port facility of origin, accompanied by an escort vehicle equipped with one or more operating amber flashing lights visible from 500 feet. Rule 672-2-.07 also applies its marking requirements to these exempt loads. O.C.G.A. 32-6-26(h) independently prohibits crossing a bridge whose posted limit is below the vehicle's total gross weight with its load.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Source date and limits

The saved-source date is 2026-11-06, not a verification of today's law. This statute-only reference account also describes the supplied implementing rules; judicial interpretation and individual permit determinations are outside its scope. Unsaved federal definitions and administrative appeal provisions are not reconstructed from cross-references.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

The saved texts contain differences: O.C.G.A. 32-6-28(a)(1)(C)(iv) states a modular transporter maximum of 84 feet including the hitch, while Rule 672-2-.01(h) states 80' including the hitch. The amendment notes for O.C.G.A. 32-6-28 identify March 4, 2024, as the effective date of the statutory length change. The amendment notes for O.C.G.A. 32-6-28 identify a local-officer inspection amendment to subsection (a)(3) effective July 1, 2025; the editor's note quotes Ga. L. 2023, p. 573, § 6 as repealing on that date the provisions in Sections 2 through 5 concerning enforcement of vehicle weight and dimension violations by officers other than Department of Public Safety officers. These saved-source differences are reported without deciding their application to a particular movement. This entry provides general reference information about permit categories and conditions, not legal advice.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

See also

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