Section Trans 254.05 - Eligibility(1) Any vehicle or vehicle and load to be considered as operating under a permit shall satisfy requirements for a permit under s. 348.25, Stats.(2) An issuing authority may not issue a permit for mobile homes or camping trailers under this chapter.(3) An issuing authority may not issue a permit for transporting loads or articles which could reasonably be divided in a manner as to allow transporting of loads or articles in 2 or more loads that are not oversize or overweight, or both.(4) An issuing authority may not issue a permit to transport more than one article if the vehicle, load, or vehicle and load is overweight. Note: This section prohibits, among other things, the addition of an extra boom section to a load that is transported under a permit for an overweight vehicle, load, or vehicle and load. Transporting necessary blocking for a load, or transporting the necessary blocking on an otherwise empty vehicle to and from the origin or destination of the load is not prohibited.
(5) An issuing authority may not issue a permit for a vehicle and load exceeding 100 feet in overall length when the rear supporting axle is at or near the rear of the load unless the rear support is separately steered.(6) An issuing authority may issue a permit only for a vehicle equipped with pneumatic tires.(7) The issuance of a permit is not a guarantee of the sufficiency of any highway or structure for the transporting of the vehicle, load, or vehicle and load.(8) A permit may not authorize the operation of more than 2 vehicles in combination. Note: This does not prohibit the use of dollies to support or assist in supporting one or both ends of a trailer.
(9) A permit may authorize the operation of vehicle combinations consisting of a truck-tractor and semi-trailer with an earth-mover being transported with its power unit resting on the bed of a semi-trailer and its single rear axle trailing on the roadway behind the semi-trailer, in which case the gross weight of the rear axle of the earth mover may not exceed 35,000 pounds.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Transportation Trans 254.05
Cr. Register, December, 1990, No. 420, eff. 1-1-91.