Current through September 2, 2024
Section 39.03.01.304 - CONVOY OF OVERSIZE LOADS01.Convoying Oversize Loads. Oversize loads that individually would require a pilot/escort vehicle, except overwidth manufactured homes, office trailers, and modular buildings, may be permitted to travel in convoy with pilot/escort vehicles in front of and behind the convoy, but such convoys will not exceed four (4) oversize loads or vehicles between pilot/escort vehicles. Maximum width of units in a convoy will be limited to fourteen (14') feet wide on black-coded routes of the Pilot/Escort Vehicle Travel and Vertical Clearance of Structures Map and to twelve feet six inches (12'6") on red-coded routes of the Pilot/Escort Vehicle Travel and Vertical Clearance of Structures Map. Oversize loads that do not individually require a pilot/escort vehicle may travel in convoy without pilot/escort vehicles. Maximum length of units in a convoy will be limited to one hundred (100') feet on black-coded routes and seventy five (75') feet on red-coded routes of the Pilot/Escort Vehicle Travel and Vertical Clearance of Structures Map and one hundred twenty (120') feet on the interstate system.02.Convoying Manufactured Homes, Office Trailers, and Modular Buildings. No convoy of overwidth manufactured homes, modular buildings, or office trailers will include more than two (2) units between two (2) piloting/escorting vehicles. On those routes where pilot/escort vehicles are required in front and to the rear of an overwidth manufactured home or office trailer, two (2) units may travel in convoy between such piloting/escorting vehicles. On routes requiring only a front pilot/escort vehicle, the manufactured home or office trailer mover may have the option of convoying two (2) units between front and rear pilots/escorts. At no time will more than one (1) manufactured home or office trailer be piloted/escorted by one (1) pilot/escort vehicle. Maximum width of units in a convoy will be limited to fourteen (14') feet wide on black-coded routes and to ten (10') feet wide on red-coded routes of the Pilot/Escort Vehicle Travel and Vertical Clearance of Structures Map. Minimum spacing of approximately one thousand (1,000') feet will be maintained between all units in a convoy except when a pilot/escort is necessary to control traffic in turning movements. Maximum length of units in a convoy will be limited to one hundred (100') feet on black-coded routes and seventy five (75') feet on red-coded routes of the Pilot/Escort Vehicle Travel and Vertical Clearance of Structures Map and one hundred twenty (120') feet on the interstate.Idaho Admin. Code r. 39.03.01.304