{"data":{"id":"us-or/ors-818.210","jurisdiction":"us-or","citation":"ORS 818.210","heading":"Limits on authority to issue variance permit.","body":"Except as provided under ORS 818.220, a road authority shall not issue a variance permit under ORS 818.200 for any vehicle or load that can readily or reasonably be dismantled or disassembled. The limit under this section does not apply to the following:\n      (1) Combinations of vehicles consisting of not more than a motor truck with a registration weight of more than 8,000 pounds and two self-supporting trailers or a truck tractor and semitrailer drawing two self-supporting trailers or semitrailers mounted on dollies equipped with fifth wheels having an overall length not in excess of 105 feet. The self-supporting trailers or semitrailers must be reasonably uniform in length.\n      (2) Vehicles or combinations of vehicles having a length in excess of that permitted under ORS 818.060 or 818.090.\n      (3) Any self-loading log truck. In the granting of permits to vehicles described in this subsection, a granting authority shall observe and be governed by the following maximum loaded weights:\n      (a) The loaded weight of any individual wheel, axle or tandem axles of any vehicle or combination of vehicles shall not exceed the maximum loaded wheel, axle and tandem axle weights set forth in Tables I and II of ORS 818.010.\n      (b) The loaded weight of any group of axles of any vehicle or combination of vehicles, when the distance between the first and last axles of any group of axles is 18 feet or less, and the loaded weight of any vehicle when the distance between the first and last axles of all of the axles of the vehicle is 18 feet or less, shall not exceed that set forth in the following table of weights, or the sum of the permissible axle or tandem axle weights, whichever is less:\nDistance in feet between                         Maximum loaded weight,\nthe first and last axles                             in pounds, of any\nof any group of axles of                          group of axles of any\nany vehicle or combination                    vehicle or combination\nof vehicles, or between the                     of vehicles, or\nfirst and last axles of all                          of any vehicle:\nthe axles of any vehicle:\n      6                                                         34,000\n      7                                                         34,000\n      8                                                         34,000\n      9                                                         39,000\n      10                                                       40,000\n      11                                                       40,000\n      12                                                       40,000\n      13                                                       40,000\n      14                                                       43,200\n      15                                                       44,000\n      16                                                       44,800\n      17                                                       45,600\n      18                                                       50,000\n      (c) The loaded weight of any vehicle or combination of vehicles, where the distance between the first and last axles of the vehicle or combination of vehicles is more than 18 feet, shall not exceed that set forth in the following table of weights, or the sum of the permissible axle, tandem axle or group of axles weights, whichever is less:\nDistance                      Maximum loaded weight,\nin feet                          in pounds, of any\nbetween                       vehicle or combination\nthe first                       of vehicles:\nand last\naxles of\nall the\naxles of a\nvehicle or\ncombination\nof vehicles:\nWheel                         Max            5 Axles       6 Axles         7 Axles      8 or\nBase                            Weight                                                                  More\n                                                                                                                  Axles\n19                                50,000\n20                                50,000\n21                                50,000\n22                                50,000\n23                                50,400\n24                                51,200\n25                                55,250\n26                                56,100\n27                                56,950\n28                                57,800\n29                                58,650\n30                                59,500\n31                                60,350\n32                                61,200\n33                                62,050\n34                                62,900\n35                                63,750\n36                                64,600\n37                                65,450\n38                                66,300\n39                                68,000\n40                                70,000         73,000\n41                                72,000         73,500\n42                                73,280         74,500\n43                                73,280         75,000\n44                                73,280         75,500\n45                                73,280         76,000\n46                                73,280         77,000\n47                                73,280         77,500        81,000          81,000       81,000\n48                                73,280         78,000        82,000          82,000       82,000\n49                                73,280         78,500        83,000          83,000       83,000\n50                                73,280         79,500        84,000          84,000       84,000\n51                                73,280         80,000        84,500          85,000       85,000\n52                                73,600         80,500        85,000          86,000       86,000\n53                                74,400         81,000        86,000          87,000       87,000\n54                                75,200         81,500        86,500          88,000       91,000\n55                                76,000         82,500        87,000          89,000       92,000\n56                                -                  83,000        87,500          90,000       93,000\n57                                -                  83,500        88,000          91,000       94,000\n58                                -                  84,000        89,000          92,000       95,000\n59                                -                  85,000        89,500          93,000       96,000\n60                                -                  85,500        90,000          94,000       97,000\n61                                -                  86,000        90,500          95,000       98,000\n62                                -                  87,000        91,000          96,000       99,000\n63                                -                  87,500        92,000          97,000       100,000\n64                                -                  88,000        92,500          97,500       101,000\n65                                -                  88,500        93,000          98,000       102,000\n66                                -                  89,000        93,500          98,500       103,000\n67                                -                  90,000        94,000          99,000       104,000\n68                                -                  90,000        95,000          99,500       105,000\n69                                -                  90,000        95,500          100,000     105,500\n70                                -                  90,000        96,000          101,000     105,500\n71                                -                  90,000        96,500          101,500     105,500\n72                                -                  90,000        96,500          102,000     105,500\n73                                -                  90,000        96,500          102,500     105,500\n74                                -                  90,000        96,500          103,000     105,500\n75                                -                  90,000        96,500          104,000     105,500\n76                                -                  90,000        96,500          104,500     105,500\n77                                -                  90,000        96,500          105,000     105,500\n78                                -                  90,000        96,500          105,500     105,500\n      (4) Any vehicle, combination of vehicles, load, article, property, machine or thing that:\n      (a) Is used in the construction, maintenance or repair of public highways; and\n      (b) Is either not being used by the federal government, State of Oregon or any county or incorporated city or not being used at the immediate location or site.\n      (5) Combinations of vehicles having a combined loaded weight in excess of that authorized under Table III of ORS 818.010.\n      (6) A vehicle engaged in the transportation of secondary wood products, which may be issued a permit for an overlength load. As used in this subsection, “secondary wood products” means laminated wood products and wooden I-beams. A vehicle engaged in the transportation of secondary wood products may also transport a divisible load of secondary wood products that otherwise exceeds allowable load length limits if:\n      (a) The load contains a permitted, nondivisible secondary wood product that exceeds the length allowed in ORS 818.080 or 818.100;\n      (b) The divisible load does not exceed the length allowed for the nondivisible wood product in the permit; and\n      (c) Not more than 49 percent of each divisible load item, by length or weight, authorized by this subsection overhangs the vehicle transporting the load.\n      (7) A vehicle engaged in the transportation of lumber, veneer or plywood, which may be issued a permit for an overwidth load if the width of the divisible load does not exceed nine feet.\n      (8) A vehicle transporting an overheight marine container to or from a marine port facility.\n      (9) A vehicle or combination of vehicles engaged in hauling grass seed straw, grass hay or cereal grain straw, which may be issued a permit to allow the load to be up to 14 feet 6 inches high. A permit issued under this subsection shall be valid for one year and shall specify the routes over which the overheight load may be hauled.\n      (10) A vehicle or combination of vehicles that has a variance permit and that can carry items related to the already permitted load without increasing the size of the vehicle needed to carry the item requiring the variance permit.\n      (11) A vehicle engaged in hauling poplar logs or the processing residual from the logs, which may be issued an annual overwidth permit for a vehicle and load with a combined width of not more than 12 feet. The annual permit shall allow movement of the vehicle only on Patterson Ferry Road and Frontage Road in Morrow County and only for a distance of 5,000 feet or less.\n      (12) A vehicle or combination of vehicles engaged in hauling bagged grass seed or mint leaves in sacks, which may be issued a permit to allow the load to be up to nine feet six inches wide. A permit issued under this subsection shall be valid for one year and shall specify the routes over which the overwidth load may be hauled.\n      (13) A combination of a truck tractor and two property-carrying units that exceeds the maximum length established under ORS 818.080 if:\n      (a) The combined length of the two property-carrying units does not exceed 82 feet 8 inches;\n      (b) The combination is used only to transport sugar beets; and\n      (c) The combination is operated on U.S. Highway 20, U.S. Highway 26, U.S. Highway 30 or State Highway 201 in the vicinity of or between the cities of Vale, Ontario and Nyssa.","path":["19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation","59. Oregon Vehicle Code","Chapter 818 — Vehicle Limits"],"source_url":"https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors818.html","current_through":"2025 Edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T23:50:18Z","sha256":"d71c9c06a6574c5f3474ab6e62bbca6b44447b25a349c8bf77916406f4d04d6f","source_id":"us-or","stale":false,"prev":"us-or/ors-818.205","next":"us-or/ors-818.220"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}