TABLE 1 Legal Size Vehicle Dimensions | ||
Vehicle | Maximum Length | Comments |
Single motor vehicle | 45 feet | Measured from bumper to bumper. |
Semitrailer | 53 feet | A trailer may not exceed 53 feet. |
Double trailer combinations | 61 feet | Measured from the front of the first trailer to the rear of the second trailer, excluding appurtenances. There is no overall length limitation on a truck tractor and double trailer combination when the trailers coupled together measure 61 feet or less. |
Stringer steered automobile transporter | 80 feet or less | Stinger-steered automobile transports are measured from bumper to bumper and may have a front overhang of 4 feet or less and a rear overhang of 6 feet or less, with a maximum vehicle length of 80 feet or less, excluding overhangs. |
Saddle Mount | 97 feet | This will allow a maximum of three saddle-mount vehicles, one power unit, and one full-mount. |
Truck trailer | 65 feet | Measured from bumper to bumper combination |
Dromedary unit | 65 feet | Truck tractor unloaded box deck, and trailer. A dromedary unit is considered a truck trailer configuration whether laden or un-laden. |
75 feet | Dromedary units transporting Class 1 Explosives or munitions related security materials, as specified by the Department of Defense, are allowed up to 75 feet of overall length on the interstates, US highways and reasonable access routes without requiring a permit. Reasonable access means to the Interstate or US highway system. | |
All other combinations including recreational vehicles | 65 feet | Measured from bumper to bumper. |
Overhang | 3 feet front 6 feet rear | Vehicle may not carry any load extending more than 3 feet beyond the front of the power unit or more rear than 6 feet beyond the rear of the bed or body of the vehicle. |
Drawbar | 15 feet | The drawbar or other connection between any two vehicles, one of which is towing or drawing the other on a highway, may not exceed 15 feet in length from one vehicle to the other, measured from box to box or frame to frame, except in the case of a connection between any two vehicles transporting poles, pipe, machinery, or structural material that cannot be dismembered when transported upon a pole trailer. |
Commercial delivery of light and weight and medium -duty trailers | 82 feet or less | Consisting of a trailer transporter towing unit and two trailers or semitrailers with a total weight not to exceed 26,000 pounds; and in which the trailers or semitrailers carry no property and constitute inventory property of a manufacturer, distributer, or dealer of such trailers or semitrailers, may have an overall length limitation of 82 feet or less on a towaway trailer transporter combination. |
Utah Admin. Code R909-2-4