Indiana oversize and overweight permits

• Over 12 ft 4 in wide, over 110 ft long or over 14 ft 6 in high — one escort (in front on an undivided highway, in the rear on a divided highway) — escort thresholds at 12 ft 4 in wide, 110 ft long, 14 ft 6 in high; height stick; escort vehicle equipment. Month-only date, recorded as the 1st. rev. 2022-04-01 · read 2026-09-01
• Over 14 ft 6 in high — an escort carrying a height stick must travel in front of the load — escort thresholds at 12 ft 4 in wide, 110 ft long, 14 ft 6 in high; height stick; escort vehicle equipment. Month-only date, recorded as the 1st. rev. 2022-04-01 · read 2026-09-01
• Over 14 ft 4 in up to 17 ft wide on a dual-lane divided highway — one rear escort — escort thresholds at 12 ft 4 in wide, 110 ft long, 14 ft 6 in high; height stick; escort vehicle equipment. Month-only date, recorded as the 1st. rev. 2022-04-01 · read 2026-09-01
• Over 14 ft 4 in up to 17 ft wide on any road that is not a dual-lane divided highway — two escorts, front and rear — escort thresholds at 12 ft 4 in wide, 110 ft long, 14 ft 6 in high; height stick; escort vehicle equipment. Month-only date, recorded as the 1st. rev. 2022-04-01 · read 2026-09-01
• Over 17 ft wide — at least a front and a rear police escort — police escort over 200,000 lb with the interstate-only exception; width over 17 ft; route survey triggers; bucket-truck requirement over 15 ft high undated document · read 2026-09-01
• Over 200,000 lb — an Indiana State Police escort is required unless the whole route is interstate, there are no required slowdowns, and the load is under 250,000 lb — police escort over 200,000 lb with the interstate-only exception; width over 17 ft; route survey triggers; bucket-truck requirement over 15 ft high undated document · read 2026-09-01
• Over 108,000 lb — an executive fee applies, and Indiana publishes four different readings of its amount and trigger — (a) administrative fees; (b) oversize base fees $20/$30/$40; (c) $20 overweight base fee; (h) the full fee schedule; "superload" definition rev. 2025-05-16 · read 2026-09-01
• Indiana adds escort, survey and per-bridge charges that are set when the permit issues, and publishes no price for several of them — police escort over 200,000 lb with the interstate-only exception; width over 17 ft; route survey triggers; bucket-truck requirement over 15 ft high undated document · read 2026-09-01

• A motor carrier inspector is $34.00 per hour and each escort must include at least one sworn trooper, so the mix of officers — and therefore the blended rate — is set by ISP.
• Hours are computed round trip from the officers' HOMES, which are not known before ISP assigns them, so no minimum can be derived from the route.
• Vehicle mileage at Indiana's approved state rate of $0.64 per mile from 7 August 2026, applied to the same round trip from the officers' homes.

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.