- (1) Any vehicle or vehicle and load to be considered as operating under a permit shall satisfy requirements for a permit under s. 348.25, Stats.
- (2) An issuing authority may not issue a permit for mobile homes or camping trailers under this chapter.
- (3) An issuing authority may not issue a permit for transporting loads or articles which could reasonably be divided in a manner as to allow transporting of loads or articles in 2 or more loads that are not oversize or overweight, or both.
(4) An issuing authority may not issue a permit to transport more than one article if the vehicle, load, or vehicle and load is overweight.
Note: This section prohibits, among other things, the addition of an extra boom section to a load that is transported under a permit for an overweight vehicle, load, or vehicle and load. Transporting necessary blocking for a load, or transporting the necessary blocking on an otherwise empty vehicle to and from the origin or destination of the load is not prohibited.
- (5) An issuing authority may not issue a permit for a vehicle and load exceeding 100 feet in overall length when the rear supporting axle is at or near the rear of the load unless the rear support is separately steered.
- (6) An issuing authority may issue a permit only for a vehicle equipped with pneumatic tires.
- (7) The issuance of a permit is not a guarantee of the sufficiency of any highway or structure for the transporting of the vehicle, load, or vehicle and load.
(8) A permit may not authorize the operation of more than 2 vehicles in combination.
Note: This does not prohibit the use of dollies to support or assist in supporting one or both ends of a trailer.
- (9) A permit may authorize the operation of vehicle combinations consisting of a truck-tractor and semi-trailer with an earth-mover being transported with its power unit resting on the bed of a semi-trailer and its single rear axle trailing on the roadway behind the semi-trailer, in which case the gross weight of the rear axle of the earth mover may not exceed 35,000 pounds.
History
History: Cr. Register, December, 1990, No. 420, eff. 1-1-91.