Where the official sources disagree

Ark. Code §27-35-210(e)(2) bands the per-ton charge "201 miles to 250 miles, inclusive" and then "Over 251 miles", which prices no move of exactly 251 miles. ARDOT Permit Rules Appendix 3 and 27 CAR Part 111 Appendix both read "251 miles or more" and do price it. Only the range all three documents name — 252 miles and up — is priced here; a 251-mile move matches no band and the permit fee must be confirmed with the Permit Section.

The statute prices "95,000-99,999 pounds . . . . $ 3.87" while WSDOT's own schedule bands the same step as "95,000-99,000". Between 179,001 lb and 179,999 lb the two documents do not cover the same ground, so no fee is quoted. Reading the statute's figure into the schedule's gap would resolve, in favour of one document, a defect that consists precisely of the two not ending the band in the same place.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-7-205(h)(1)(B) opens its $30 band immediately above 14 ft 0 in while TDOT's published fee table opens it at 14 ft 1 in. The $20 band closes at exactly 14 ft 0 in on both readings. A width strictly between 14 ft 0 in and 14 ft 1 in is therefore priced by no band either document publishes, and the permit fee must be confirmed with the TDOT Permit Office.

Between 10' and 10'1": the rule reads "over ten feet (10') wide but not exceeding twelve feet six inches (12'6")" while the agency FAQ reads "10'1” – 12'6”". Between 12'6" and 12'7": the rule reads "over twelve feet six inches (12'6") wide but not exceeding thirteen feet six inches (13'6")" while the agency FAQ reads "12'7” – 13'6”". Between 13'6" and 13'7": the rule reads "over thirteen feet six inches (13'6") wide but not exceeding sixteen feet (16')" while the agency FAQ reads "13'7” and greater" (our own observation, following identically from the two texts).

The statute and agency website list three distinct stepped bands starting at 16' ($500, $750, $1,000), whereas the older administrative code imposes a base fee of $2,500 + $100/inch above 17'.

MDOT publishes 164,000 lb as the maximum allowable gross vehicle weight and states it is the result of the eleven-axle cap and the per-axle spacing maxima, not a statutory figure. It does not publish the configuration. One arrangement that reaches it under MCL 257.722(1)-(3) is 3 axles at 18,000 lb (each 9 ft or more from its neighbours) + 1 tandem assembly at 16,000 lb per axle + 6 axles at 13,000 lb = 54,000 + 32,000 + 78,000 = 164,000 lb. THAT ARITHMETIC IS OURS, NOT MICHIGAN’S, it is offered only as evidence the number is reachable, and it is encoded in no rule, fee or limit in this file.

A new Michigan extended (annual) permit is prorated once, from a 12x12 matrix crossing the month the existing permit expires with THE FIRST LETTER OF THE APPLICANT COMPANY’S NAME: $30-$57 for an oversize permit and $100-$191 for an overweight one, with farm-to-farm-only permits at 10% of the overweight prorated fee. MDOT’s worked example: "The new extended transport fee for the oversize permit (prorated this year only) is $47.00." No field in this model expresses a fee keyed to an applicant’s name, and none is invented. The sheet itself carries NO printed revision date and its PDF was created on 2010-07-20 — sixteen years old and still the live linked schedule. It leaves June, July and August unassigned to any letter group, and says nothing about a company name beginning with a digit.

Two official MDOT hosts serve different editions of the same two documents, and only one host is current. MDOT T-1 (04/19) — SUPERSEDED copy still served by michigan.gov at https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/-/media/Project/Websites/MDOT/Business/Truckers/Rules-and-Guidelines/Maximum-Legal-Truck-Loadings-Dimensions.pdf is superseded by T-1 (05/2024) at mdotjboss.state.mi.us. MDOT T-2 (11/22) — SUPERSEDED copy still served by michigan.gov at https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/-/media/Project/Websites/MDOT/Business/Truckers/Rules-and-Guidelines/Moving-Oversize-Overweight-Vehicles-Loads.pdf is superseded by T-2 (10/2023) at mdotjboss.state.mi.us. These are different editions rather than reflows — the michigan.gov T-2 runs to eight pages against the permit host’s five. Every Michigan value on this site is taken from the permit host’s current copies, and no value is taken from the superseded ones, because their contents were not transcribed and writing down what they probably said would manufacture history.

Read literally, ".05 cents" is $0.0005 per 1,000 lb per mile and a 100,000 lb load over 100 Mississippi miles costs $1.00 in excess-weight charge. Read as the industry reads it — five cents, $0.05 — the same move costs $100.00. A factor of ONE HUNDRED, in the only document that states a Mississippi permit price. There is NO statutory backstop: Miss. Code Ann. § 63-5-51 authorises the permit and sets no fee, no formula and no fee-setting delegation, and both the Rule and the Manual describe overweight pricing as "based on weight and per mile travel" without a rate. Three further inputs the same sentence never supplies: whether a part-thousand pounds rounds up, down or pro rata; whether mileage is whole miles, rounded or true distance; and WHICH excess the charge runs on, since gross over 80,000, a single axle over 20,000 and a tandem over 34,000 are joined by "or" with no stated basis. Neither reading has been adopted and no Mississippi overweight amount is quoted.

Both documents print a table headed "Maximum Axle Weights and Minimum Spacing / Special Heavy Haul Blanket Permit" and they do not agree on a single row above five axles. SIX AXLES: the Rule prints 80,000-120,000 lb with a 14,000 lb steering axle, a 42,000 lb tandem and a 64,000 lb tri-axle; the Manual prints 80,000-117,000 lb with a 15,000 lb steering axle, a 45,000 lb tandem and a 57,000 lb triaxle. SEVEN AXLES OR MORE: the Rule prints 80,000-150,000 lb with a 56,000 lb tandem and an 80,000 lb quad; the Manual prints 80,000-142,000 lb with a 45,000 lb tandem and a 60,000 lb quad. The Manual also introduces an "Eight Axles or More (80,000 lbs. to 150,000 lbs.)" row the Rule does not have. The differences run to 20,000 lb on a quad group and 8,000 lb of allowed gross. The five-axle row (14,000 / 40,500 / 40,500) is the one row both share. Anyone pricing a Mississippi Special Heavy Haul move must know which table the permit writer is using. Neither has been adopted, and this engine does not price the annual blanket product.

Rule § 900: "Authorizes the movement of loads not exceeding 14 feet in width, 120 feet in length with no more than 14 feet 11 inches rear overhang and must be one continuous piece." — no height at all. Manual: "This permit authorizes the movement of loads not exceeding fourteen (14) feet in width, FOURTEEN (14) FEET IN HEIGHT, one hundred twenty (120) feet in length, with no more than fourteen (14) feet eleven (11) inches rear overhang." A 14 ft 6 in high, 12 ft wide load is inside the Rule’s envelope and outside the Manual’s — covered by the $100 annual blanket under one document and needing a separate single-trip permit under the other.

The fee sheet lists "Pole Blanket $200.00" under Blanket Fees and states that "The Blanket Permits are not prorated, all permits are issued for one (1) year unless otherwise specified". The Manual states "The Pole Blanket Permit is valid for one (1) month at a cost of $200.00 per fleet of vehicles." A twelvefold difference in what $200 buys. The fee sheet’s "unless otherwise specified" arguably yields to the Manual, but the fee sheet does not itself specify otherwise. Both on file; neither adopted.

The fee table states a rate and no basis. Read on the ENTIRE gross vehicle weight, a 180,000 lb load pays $540; read on the EXCESS over 130,000 lb it pays $150. The statute’s OTHER per-poundage fee, § 57-3-130(B)(5), is explicit — "there is an additional megaload impact fee assessed ON THE ENTIRE GROSS VEHICLE WEIGHT on a pounds per mile basis" — so the drafter used the word in one place in the section and omitted it in the other. Reading the superload fee on the entire GVW makes that clarification redundant; reading it on the excess makes the two fees inconsistent in basis. THAT IS AN ARGUMENT, NOT AN ANSWER, and neither reading has been adopted. Two further inputs are unpublished: whether a part increment (130,500 lb is half an increment over) rounds up, down or pro rata, and whether the impact fee STACKS with the engineering-analysis fee, which triggers at the same "Over 130,000 pounds". The Guidelines Rev. 3/2026 reprint both lines verbatim and add nothing.

§ 57-3-130(A) prints $35 over 16 ft, $40 over 18 ft, $45 over 20 ft, $50 over 22 ft as separate line items in the same table as the $30 single-trip permit, and neither the statute nor SCDOT’s Guidelines says whether a step REPLACES that fee or is ADDED to it — $35 or $65 on a 17-ft-wide load. Every band they could occupy also starts above South Carolina’s own 16 ft permit ceiling, where a load is no longer issued over the counter but goes through the Resident Maintenance Engineer as a frame building, capped at thirty miles with four escorts and per-county sign-off. Neither reading has been adopted and no width step is priced. § 57-3-130(A): "Superload Engineer Analysis Over 130,000 pounds $100.00 / Superload Engineer Analysis Over 200,000 pounds $200.00 / Superload Engineer Analysis Over 300,000 pounds $350.00", plus a "Superload Application (Non-Refundable) $100.00" — the ONLY non-refundable fee in South Carolina, where everything else is returned on denial. All three analysis boundaries are exclusive. WHETHER THE BANDS ARE CUMULATIVE OR EXCLUSIVE IS NOT PUBLISHED: at 350,000 lb the analysis fee is either $350 or $100+$200+$350 = $650. Bands in a fee ladder are normally exclusive and that is the natural reading, but neither document says so, and $300 is not a rounding question. These are SCDOT’s review charges; the independent structural analysis the Guidelines "may require the carrier to provide" above 300,000 lb is the carrier’s own cost and is unquantified. None of this is quoted, because a load over 130,000 lb is a South Carolina superload and the engine prices no superload.

A five-year-old copy of the Guidelines is still served at a second scdot.org URL. It is a WARNING RATHER THAN A SUBSTANTIVE CONFLICT: the fee table and the entire escort section were compared line by line against Rev. 3/2026 and are IDENTICAL, so no figure in this file changes either way. But the sections that DID change between the two — permit types, superload tiers and travel times — would be silently wrong for anyone who landed on the older URL, which carries no indication that it has been superseded. Every row in this file is taken from Rev. 3/2026.