The Nevada answer
Legal limits
First escort trigger
- Width
- over 12'rev. · read · lowest across road classessecondary host
- Height
- over 15'6"rev. · read secondary host
- Length
- over 110'rev. · read secondary host
- Rear overhang
- over 25'rev. · read secondary host
- Gross weight
- No trigger published
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. 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.
2. 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. · read secondary hostNAC 484D.650(1)(b): a permit is required when "The maximum width of the vehicle exceeds 102 inches." The regulation and the statute agree exactly — corroboration across two bodies, which matters here because both are being read through secondary hosts. |
| Height | 14'rev. · read secondary hostNAC 484D.650(1)(f): "The height of the vehicle exceeds 14 feet, except that baled hay loads may be up to 15 feet high." |
| Semitrailer length | Not yet covered |
| Overall length | 70'undated document · read secondary hostNRS 484D.615(3): "no combination of vehicles, including any attachments thereto coupled together, may exceed a length of 70 feet." EXCLUSIVE. 70 FT IS RESTRICTIVE for a combination — a 53 ft trailer behind a modern tractor is close to it — so Nevada permits a good deal of ordinary freight on length that its neighbours do not. Corroborated by NAC 484D.650(1)(c). NOTE that NRS 484D.615(7) sets a SECOND and higher length trigger at 75 ft "including overhang", and NAC 484D.650(1)(d) repeats it; the 70 ft figure is the one that governs the combination itself. |
| Kingpin to rear axle | None published |
| Front overhang | 10'undated document · read secondary hostNRS 484D.615(7), per-end figure. EXCLUSIVE. The same subsection also caps the SUM of front and rear overhang at 10 ft, which this field cannot express — see the comment above. Corroborated by NAC 484D.650(1)(e): "The overhang of the vehicle exceeds 10 feet, regardless of length." The subsection exempts the booms and masts of shovels, cranes and water-well drilling equipment. |
| Rear overhang | 10'undated document · read secondary hostNRS 484D.615(7), per-end figure, identical to the front. EXCLUSIVE. |
| Gross weight | Not yet covered |
| Single axle | 20,000 lbundated document · read secondary hostNRS 484D.635(1)(a): "The maximum weight on any single axle does not exceed 20,000 pounds." AND THE PER-TIRE LIMIT BINDS FIRST ON A HEAVY MOVE: (1)(c) caps a steering axle at 600 lb per inch of tire width and every other axle at 500 lb/in, and NAC 484D.640(8)(a) repeats it as a PERMIT CONDITION, so it survives the permit unless the permit expressly exceeds it. A quote states no tire widths, so it is recorded and not evaluated. (1)(d) separately requires at least four tires on any axle over 10,000 lb whose tires are 14 in or narrower. |
| Tandem axle | 34,000 lbundated document · read secondary hostNRS 484D.635(1)(b): "The maximum weight on any tandem axle does not exceed 34,000 pounds." (1)(e) states the federal bridge formula W = 500[LN/(N−1) + 12N + 36] with W "computed to the nearest 500 pounds", and (2) adds the twin-tandem 34,000 lb proviso at 36 ft or more. Subsection (3) allows an electric or natural-gas vehicle 2,000 lb over and an idle-reduction-equipped vehicle 550 lb over — stated as flat allowances rather than Arizona's "lesser of" formula. Powertrain is not collected on a quote, so neither is applied. |
3. The Nevada 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.
| When | What is required | Source |
|---|---|---|
| width over 12' and the move travels in darkness or the move travels on a holiday | 1 certified escort1 behind |
Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/…rev. · read secondary host |
| width over 12' and the road is “two or three lane” or the move travels in darkness or the move travels on a holiday | 1 certified escort1 in front |
Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/…rev. · read secondary host |
| width over 14' | 1 certified escort1 behind |
Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/…rev. · read secondary host |
| height over 15'6" | 1 certified escort1 in frontHeight pole required |
Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/…rev. · read secondary host |
| width over 16' | 1 certified escort1 in front |
Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/…rev. · read secondary host |
| rear overhang over 25' | 1 certified escort1 behind |
Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/…rev. · read secondary host |
| front overhang over 25' | 1 certified escort1 in front |
Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/…rev. · read secondary host |
| overall length over 110' | 1 certified escort1 behind |
Amendment history: "A by R157-18A, eff. 8/21/…rev. · read secondary host |
The first trigger in each dimension
| Measurement | First escort trigger | First police escort trigger |
|---|---|---|
| Width | over 12'rev. · read · varies by road class | None published |
| Height | over 15'6"rev. · read | None published |
| Length | over 110'rev. · read | None published |
| Rear overhang | over 25'rev. · read | None published |
| Gross weight | None published | None published |
The same rules restated in plain sentences9 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. · read
- 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. · read
- 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. · read
- 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. · read
- 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. · read
- 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. · read
- 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. · read
- 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. · read
- 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. · read
4. Nevada single-trip permit fees
| Charge | Amount |
|---|---|
| Single-trip base | $25rev. · read secondary hostNAC 484D.635(1)(a): "Single-trip permits are $25." An annual multiple-trip permit is $60, which pays for itself on the third move and is by a wide margin the cheapest annual OS/OW permit in this corpus; a replacement for a lost or destroyed ANNUAL permit is $10, and no replacement price is published for a single-trip permit. NAC 484D.635(2) lets the Department WAIVE the fee for a governmental entity, and — more interestingly — for an otherwise legal load over a route whose weight limit the Department has itself reduced under NRS 484D.660. Both are discretionary ("may waive") and neither is applied. A SCOPE CONFLICT IS RECORDED RATHER THAN RESOLVED SILENTLY: subsection (1)'s preamble prices permits "for oversized vehicles" while NAC 484D.625(1) describes the same instrument as being "for the movement of an oversized OR overweight vehicle", so read literally Nevada publishes no price for an overweight-only permit. The reading that $25 covers both is OURS; it is the only sensible one, and it is flagged as ours in `nv-fee-scope-conflict`. |
| Transaction / card | Not yet covered |
| Route analysis review | Not yet covered |
| Route with no bridges | Not yet covered |
5. How Nevada prices overweight
No overweight pricing model is on file for this jurisdiction. That is a gap in our corpus, not a statement that the state charges nothing.
6. Nevada 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.
Nevada is not in the seasonal-restriction registry, so we hold no posting window for it and are not inventing one.
7. 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 |
8. 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 |
9. 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".
10. When you can move it
Holiday, curfew and night-travel windows are not yet encoded for Nevada. 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.
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.
12. 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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13. 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. · read secondary host - 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. · read secondary host - NAC 484D.650 — When a permit is required — Nevada Administrative Code (via Cornell LII) — Amendment history closes "R161-07, 6-17-2008".
rev. · read secondary host - 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. · read secondary host - 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 secondary host - 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 secondary host - 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 secondary host - 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 secondary host
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.