ORS § 818.210

Current through 2024 Regular Session legislation
Section 818.210 - Limits on authority to issue variance permit

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:

(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.
(2) Vehicles or combinations of vehicles having a length in excess of that permitted under ORS 818.060 or 818.090.
(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:
(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.
(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:

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Distance in feet between the first and last axles of any group of axles of any vehicle or combination of vehicles, or between the first and last axles of all the axles of any vehicle:

Maximum loaded weight, in pounds, of any group of axles of any vehicle or combination of vehicles, or of any vehicle:

6

34,000

7

34,000

8

34,000

9

39,000

10

40,000

11

40,000

12

40,000

13

40,000

14

43,200

15

44,000

16

44,800

17

45,600

18

50,000

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(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:

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Distance in feet between the first and last axles of all the axles of a vehicle or combination of vehicles: Wheel Base

Maximum loaded weight, in pounds, of any vehicle or combination of vehicles:

Max

Weight

5 Axles

6 Axles

7 Axles

8 or More Axles

19

50,000

20

50,000

21

50,000

22

50,000

23

50,400

24

51,200

25

55,250

26

56,100

27

56,950

28

57,800

29

58,650

30

59,500

31

60,350

32

61,200

33

62,050

34

62,900

35

63,750

36

64,600

37

65,450

38

66,300

39

68,000

40

70,000

73,000

41

72,000

73,500

42

73,280

74,500

43

73,280

75,000

44

73,280

75,500

45

73,280

76,000

46

73,280

77,000

47

73,280

77,500

81,000

81,000

81,000

48

73,280

78,000

82,000

82,000

82,000

49

73,280

78,500

83,000

83,000

83,000

50

73,280

79,500

84,000

84,000

84,000

51

73,280

80,000

84,500

85,000

85,000

52

73,600

80,500

85,000

86,000

86,000

53

74,400

81,000

86,000

87,000

87,000

54

75,200

81,500

86,500

88,000

91,000

55

76,000

82,500

87,000

89,000

92,000

56

-

83,000

87,500

90,000

93,000

57

-

83,500

88,000

91,000

94,000

58

-

84,000

89,000

92,000

95,000

59

-

85,000

89,500

93,000

96,000

60

-

85,500

90,000

94,000

97,000

61

-

86,000

90,500

95,000

98,000

62

-

87,000

91,000

96,000

99,000

63

-

87,500

92,000

97,000

100,000

64

-

88,000

92,500

97,500

101,000

65

-

88,500

93,000

98,000

102,000

66

-

89,000

93,500

98,500

103,000

67

-

90,000

94,000

99,000

104,000

68

-

90,000

95,000

99,500

105,000

69

-

90,000

95,500

100,000

105,500

70

-

90,000

96,000

101,000

105,500

71

-

90,000

96,500

101,500

105,500

72

-

90,000

96,500

102,000

105,500

73

-

90,000

96,500

102,500

105,500

74

-

90,000

96,500

103,000

105,500

75

-

90,000

96,500

104,000

105,500

76

-

90,000

96,500

104,500

105,500

77

-

90,000

96,500

105,000

105,500

78

-

90,000

96,500

105,500

105,500

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(4) Any vehicle, combination of vehicles, load, article, property, machine or thing that:
(a) Is used in the construction, maintenance or repair of public highways; and
(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.
(5) Combinations of vehicles having a combined loaded weight in excess of that authorized under Table III of ORS 818.010.
(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:
(a) The load contains a permitted, nondivisible secondary wood product that exceeds the length allowed in ORS 818.080 or 818.100;
(b) The divisible load does not exceed the length allowed for the nondivisible wood product in the permit; and
(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.
(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.
(8) A vehicle transporting an overheight marine container to or from a marine port facility.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(13) A combination of a truck tractor and two property-carrying units that exceeds the maximum length established under ORS 818.080 if:
(a) The combined length of the two property-carrying units does not exceed 82 feet 8 inches;
(b) The combination is used only to transport sugar beets; and
(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.

ORS 818.210

Amended by 2019 Ch. 490, § 1, eff. 6/25/2019.
Amended by 2015 Ch. 77, § 1, eff. 1/1/2016.
1983 c.338 §536; 1985 c.16 §275; 1989 c.431 §1; 1991 c.261 §1; 1991 c.880 §5; 1993 c.416 §1; 1995 c.488 §1; 1997 c.360 §1; 1997 c.466 §1; 1999 c.59 §244; 1999 c.352 §1; 2001 c.335 §3