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Louisiana oversize and overweight permits

Every figure here carries the Louisiana document behind it.

14 source documents on fileoldest revision 1994-04-01last retrieved 2026-09-0319 escort rules in effect1 source conflictsFree · no account needed

The Louisiana answer

Legal limits

Width
8'6" · caveat ↓rev. · read secondary host
Height
13'6" · caveat ↓rev. · read secondary host
Overall length
The state publishes none
Gross weight
80,000 lb · caveat ↓rev. · read secondary host

First escort trigger

Width
over 12'undated document · read
Height
No trigger published
Length
over 90'undated document · read
Rear overhang
No trigger published
Gross weight
No trigger published

What the paper costs

Single-trip base
$0 · caveat ↓rev. · read secondary host
Transaction / card
Not yet researched
How overweight is priced
Graduated weight bandsrev. · read secondary host
Superload above
254,000 lb and up · caveat ↓rev. · read secondary host

The short version: a Louisiana single-trip permit starts at $0 before bands, overweight and the transaction charge; an escort is first required at over 12' wide; and the load becomes a superload at over 254,000 lb. Everything below carries the Louisiana document it came from, that document's own revision date, and the date we read it.

Corridor

1. Where the load goes next

The jurisdictions this one borders, each chip carrying the fact that decides whether that crossing is the expensive one — so the row is itself a small comparison. A multi-state lane is the actual job, and from here it is one click per state rather than a return to an alphabetical index.

ArkansasEscort at over 12' (worst road class)MississippiEscort at 13' or more (worst road class)TexasEscort at 14' or more
PreviousKentucky NextMaine

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Escort ladder

3. The Louisiana escort ladder

Not one number per dimension — the whole staircase. Each row is a condition the state actually publishes, what it requires when that condition holds, and the clause it comes from. Where a rule requires escorts and the source states no number, the row says that in the source's own words rather than reporting no requirement.

WhenWhat is requiredSource
width from 12' (exclusive) to 16'
1 certified escort
 the private-escort and state-police escort tr…undated document · read
the road is “divided” or “multilane undivided” or “interstate” and width over 16'
1 police escort behind
 the private-escort and state-police escort tr…undated document · read
the road is “two lane” and width over 16'
1 police escort in front
 the private-escort and state-police escort tr…undated document · read
overall length from 90' (exclusive) to 125'
1 certified escort1 behind
 the private-escort and state-police escort tr…undated document · read
overall length over 125'
1 police escort behind
 the private-escort and state-police escort tr…undated document · read

The first trigger in each dimension

MeasurementFirst escort triggerFirst police escort trigger
Widthover 12'undated document · read over 16'undated document · read · varies by road class
HeightNone publishedNone published
Lengthover 90'undated document · read over 125'undated document · read
Rear overhangNone publishedNone published
Gross weightNone publishedNone published
The same rules restated in plain sentences19 rules

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Permit fees

4. Louisiana single-trip permit fees

ChargeAmount
Single-trip base$0rev. · read secondary hostLouisiana states no permit fee outside the oversize and overweight schedules themselves. The $10 oversize fee is carried as a fee band because R.S. 32:387(H)(3) waives it for a load that is also overweight.
Transaction / cardNot yet covered
Route analysis reviewNot yet covered
Route with no bridgesNot yet covered

Dimension bands

BandFee
oversize single trip (statute: $10 per trip or per operating day)$10rev. · read R.S. 32:387(H)(1)(a): "the fee for each overwidth, overheight, or overlength permit shall be ten dollars per trip or ten dollars per operating day for trips lasting more than one calendar day provided such vehicle or combination of vehicles is not also overweight". DOTD restates it as "Oversize – $10 per day / per trip". A mobile home or mobile office pays a flat $10 per permit for a consecutive 72-hour period under subparagraph (b) instead, which is the same amount and a different term.
oversize single trip (administrative code: $8 per trip or per day)$8rev. · read LAC 73:I.303(A): "The fee is $8 for a single trip if the trip lasts less than one day or $8 for a single day if the trip lasts more than one day." Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 06 (June 20 2025) and still published. See `la-oversize-fee-conflict`.

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Overweight model

5. How Louisiana prices overweight

Graduated weight bands. R.S. 32:387(H)(2)(c) prints a flat fee per cell of a table with ten gross-weight rows and five distance columns. It is neither a pure weight step nor a per-mile rate: the amount is banded on BOTH, so 120,000 lb over 40 miles is $135.00 and the same load over 210 miles is $622.50.

La. R.S. 32:387 — Special permits for excessive size and weight (via Justia) — rev. · read secondary host

The bands, as published

Gross weightAxlesFeeSource
80,001 lb – 100,000 lb any $45applies from 0 to 50 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
80,001 lb – 100,000 lb any $67.50applies from 51 to 100 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
80,001 lb – 100,000 lb any $97.50applies from 101 to 150 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
80,001 lb – 100,000 lb any $120applies from 151 to 200 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
80,001 lb – 100,000 lb any $150applies from 201 to any miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
100,001 lb – 108,000 lb any $75applies from 0 to 50 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
100,001 lb – 108,000 lb any $142.50applies from 51 to 100 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
100,001 lb – 108,000 lb any $202.50applies from 101 to 150 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
100,001 lb – 108,000 lb any $270applies from 151 to 200 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
100,001 lb – 108,000 lb any $330applies from 201 to any miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
108,001 lb – 120,000 lb any $105applies from 0 to 50 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
108,001 lb – 120,000 lb any $195applies from 51 to 100 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
108,001 lb – 120,000 lb any $285applies from 101 to 150 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
108,001 lb – 120,000 lb any $375applies from 151 to 200 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
108,001 lb – 120,000 lb any $465applies from 201 to any miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
120,001 lb – 132,000 lb any $135applies from 0 to 50 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
120,001 lb – 132,000 lb any $255applies from 51 to 100 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
120,001 lb – 132,000 lb any $375applies from 101 to 150 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
120,001 lb – 132,000 lb any $495applies from 151 to 200 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
120,001 lb – 132,000 lb any $622.50applies from 201 to any miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
132,001 lb – 152,000 lb any $180applies from 0 to 50 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
132,001 lb – 152,000 lb any $337.50applies from 51 to 100 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
132,001 lb – 152,000 lb any $502.50applies from 101 to 150 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
132,001 lb – 152,000 lb any $667.50applies from 151 to 200 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
132,001 lb – 152,000 lb any $832.50applies from 201 to any miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
152,001 lb – 172,000 lb any $232.50applies from 0 to 50 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
152,001 lb – 172,000 lb any $442.50applies from 51 to 100 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
152,001 lb – 172,000 lb any $660applies from 101 to 150 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
152,001 lb – 172,000 lb any $877.50applies from 151 to 200 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
152,001 lb – 172,000 lb any $1,095applies from 201 to any miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
172,001 lb – 192,000 lb any $285applies from 0 to 50 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
172,001 lb – 192,000 lb any $547.50applies from 51 to 100 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
172,001 lb – 192,000 lb any $817.50applies from 101 to 150 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
172,001 lb – 192,000 lb any $1,087.50applies from 151 to 200 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
172,001 lb – 192,000 lb any $1,357.50applies from 201 to any miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
192,001 lb – 212,000 lb any $337.50applies from 0 to 50 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
192,001 lb – 212,000 lb any $652.50applies from 51 to 100 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
192,001 lb – 212,000 lb any $975applies from 101 to 150 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
192,001 lb – 212,000 lb any $1,297.50applies from 151 to 200 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
192,001 lb – 212,000 lb any $1,620applies from 201 to any miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
212,001 lb – 232,000 lb any $390applies from 0 to 50 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
212,001 lb – 232,000 lb any $757.50applies from 51 to 100 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
212,001 lb – 232,000 lb any $1,132.50applies from 101 to 150 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
212,001 lb – 232,000 lb any $1,507.50applies from 151 to 200 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
212,001 lb – 232,000 lb any $1,875applies from 201 to any miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
232,001 lb – 254,000 lb any $442.50applies from 0 to 50 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
232,001 lb – 254,000 lb any $862.50applies from 51 to 100 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
232,001 lb – 254,000 lb any $1,290applies from 101 to 150 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
232,001 lb – 254,000 lb any $1,717.50applies from 151 to 200 miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
232,001 lb – 254,000 lb any $2,130applies from 201 to any miles in-state subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host

The distance charge, with its rounding

Rounding is not a detail here: the same rate over the same miles can differ by a whole increment depending on which pounds are rounded and in which direction, so the rule is printed with the source's own words rather than applied silently.

Gross weightAxlesRate and roundingSource
254,001 lb and up any
$0.75 per mile for each 2,000 lb above 80,000 lba part increment is charged in full ("or fraction thereof")plus $15 added before any dollar rounding
 subsection H — the $10 oversize fee, the thre…rev. · read secondary host
Seasonal posting

6. Louisiana seasonal posting windows

A permit priced against an unposted-road assumption in March is simply wrong, and wrong in the expensive direction. This is the window we watch, the basis for that window in the state's own orders or statute, and the authority that posts it.

Louisiana is not in the seasonal-restriction registry, so we hold no posting window for it and are not inventing one.

Superload

7. Louisiana's superload threshold

Above one of these, the state stops issuing over the counter and prices the move after an engineering review.

TriggerThreshold
Gross weightover 254,000 lbrev. · read secondary hostThe printed schedule’s top row is "232,001-254,000". R.S. 32:387(H)(2)(c)(iv): "OVER 254,000 -- $15.00 permit fee, plus $0.75 per ton-mile of weight in excess of 80,000 pounds, plus a fee for structural evaluation based on the following schedule". A ton-mile formula whose rounding convention is unpublished, plus a per-structure fee with no structure count, is not a quotable total.
WidthNone published
HeightNone published
LengthNone published
Short axle spacingNot yet covered

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Route survey

8. Route survey and bridge review

The dimensions at which Louisiana triggers a physical route inspection or an engineering review, and what the agency charges to review it.

MeasurementInspection / review trigger
Widthover 18'rev. · read LAC 73:I.309: "The DOTD District Maintenance Engineer must approve all movements over 18 feet wide, such as houses."
Heightover 18'rev. · read LAC 73:I.717: "Movers of houses, buildings, or loads that exceed 18 feet in height must contact the DOTD district office where the move originates for procedures to be followed before a permit will be issued by the truck permit office."
LengthNot yet covered
Police escorts

9. Police escorts

Louisiana State Police publishes a rate. One officer costs at least $150 before mileage.

Louisiana State Police Policy Order P.O. 1107 — Escorts — rev. · read

What the schedule does not price3 items
  • A separate fee for the use of the State Police vehicle, banded by the distance the ESCORT VEHICLE travels: 0–49 mi $100; 50–99 mi $125; 100–199 mi $150; 200–299 mi $175; 300 mi and over $200. Paid to Louisiana State Police on top of the officer's time. It is banded on the escort vehicle's own distance, which includes travel to and from the troop area, and not on the load's in-state miles.
  • One hour of travel time is added for a move beginning and ending in the same Troop area; travel across troop boundaries follows the Travel Time Remuneration Chart, which is not a published dollar figure.
  • The mover must provide the officer a room when the move runs more than one day. No cancellation charge is published — that is unknown here, not zero.

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Travel restrictions

10. When you can move it

Holiday, curfew and night-travel windows are not yet encoded for Louisiana. The seasonal picture — which is a different question — is in section 6 above.

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.

Who issues it

11. 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.

Source conflicts

12. Where the sources disagree

Two official documents, both in effect, giving different answers. Neither has been adopted.

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Scope

13. 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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Provenance

14. Every source behind this page (14)

Every document behind Louisiana14 sources
Common questions

Questions

How much is an oversize permit in Louisiana?

The single-trip base is $0, before the dimension bands, the overweight component and the transaction charge. The base alone is rarely what is paid.

When does Louisiana require a pilot car?

The first width trigger is over 12'.

What is a superload in Louisiana?

Louisiana's published gross-weight superload line is over 254,000 lb. It is not 80,000 lb; that is the federal legal gross limit, not a superload threshold.

Do Louisiana's own documents contradict each other?

Yes, in 1 place(s) we hold both documents for. They are set out in full above, each with its pinpoint citation, and none of them has been adopted.

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