By Evan Reid, Founder of Haul Handbook · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Wisconsin runs oversize and overweight permits out of the WisDOT Bureau of Highway Maintenance, priced by the statutory schedule in Wis. Stat. s. 348.25. A single trip permit lasts 5 days and covers one routed trip; a multiple trip permit runs 3 to 12 months with unlimited trips and the carrier doing its own routing. Fees start at $15 for overlength only and $20 for overweight, and most permits self-issue online.
Who issues what in Wisconsin
The permit pages
Wisconsin-specific requirements
Wisconsin runs almost every motor carrier credential out of one agency, WisDOT Motor Carrier Services, and brands its intrastate property authority Local Cartage, so carriers ask for an LC number rather than a motor carrier certificate. Two things make Wisconsin unusual for a small fleet: the intrastate authority fee is a one-time $500 rather than an annual renewal, and the state runs three seasonal weight programmes that raise limits on frozen roads in winter and suspend most overweight permits during the spring thaw.
Intrastate property authority is branded Local Cartage
Wisconsin calls its intrastate for-hire property credential Local Cartage. When authority is granted the carrier receives a certificate showing the authority number prefixed LC, and passenger authority carries a PC prefix. Both are requested on the same Wisconsin Motor Carrier Authority Application, Form MV2843.
The $500 authority fee is one time, but the vehicle permits renew every December 31
Wis. Stat. s. 194.04(1)(b) sets the LC and PC certificate fees once, and WisDOT's fee table lists both as one-time charges: $500 for Local Cartage and $50 for Passenger Carrier, with nothing to pay to amend an authority for a name change, an address change, or a transfer. What renews is the vehicle side. Section 194.04(4) charges $5 a year for each motor vehicle operated solely in intrastate commerce for hire, other than semitrailers, and s. 194.04(2) expires every such permit on December 31 with an annual application and fee.
Insurance has to be on file before the authority application is submitted
Form MV2843 requires for-hire liability insurance under Wis. Stat. s. 194.41 to be on file with the Motor Carrier Service Unit before the application is submitted, filed electronically by the underwriter as a Form E or a scheduled filing. An active federal BMC-91X in the same legal name can be used instead. Proof of insurance on file is also a prerequisite for vehicle registration and for registration trip permits, so a lapse stops more than the authority.
One legal name has to match in four places
The legal name on the USDOT number must match the name on the LC application, the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions corporate or LLC filing (or the Wisconsin driver licence for an individual), and the Form E insurance on file. WisDOT applies the same exact-name rule to IFTA and IRP, and will not process an application until the FEIN is on file with FMCSA in the same name. An out of state corporation operating intrastate in Wisconsin has to register with DFI as a foreign corporation.
Wisconsin cut its intrastate passenger insurance minimums in 2018
Effective May 1, 2018 the minimum policy limit for a motor carrier of passengers operating solely in intrastate commerce dropped from $1,500,000 to $500,000 for a vehicle carrying 15 or fewer passengers and from $5,000,000 to $1,000,000 for 16 or more. The interstate figures did not change, so an intrastate-only Wisconsin passenger carrier now files a materially smaller policy than an interstate one.
Three seasonal weight programmes, two of which cut both ways
The frozen road declaration normally runs from late December to late February or early March and lets legally licensed vehicles hauling abrasives or salt for winter maintenance, or peeled and unpeeled forest products cut crosswise, carry more weight with no special permit. The class II roads programme and the seasonal posted roads programme then run from early or mid March to late April or early May and go the other way: most divisible load multiple trip permits over legal axle weights or 80,000 pounds are suspended statewide, and overweight nondivisible permits must avoid roughly 1,400 miles of class II highway. A recorded message at (608) 266-8417 gives the current status.
Class B highways carry 60 percent of the legal weight
Wis. Stat. s. 348.16(2) limits vehicles on locally designated class B highways to 60 percent of the class A wheel, axle, axle group and gross weight limits, and s. 348.16(1) defines class B highways as the county trunk highways, town highways and municipal streets local authorities have designated under s. 349.15. A truck that is legal at 80,000 pounds on a state trunk highway is 33,000 pounds overweight on a class B town road. Pickup or delivery to a business or residence with an entrance on a class B highway is exempt from the gross weight reduction.
Wisconsin sells a long list of commodity-specific overweight permits
Beyond the general nondivisible permits, WisDOT sells multiple trip permits keyed to what is in the trailer: agricultural products to and from a farm (FF), feed, fertiliser and grain at 91,000 pounds (FG), fluid milk products at 98,000 pounds (FMP), milk product byproduct at 98,000 pounds (MPB), raw forest products at 98,000 pounds (RS), fruits, vegetables and raw forest products at 90,000 pounds (RF), hay or straw (HM), bulk potatoes (PB), potato seed (PS), grain, coal and iron ore near the Minnesota border (AC), granular roofing material (GR), and garbage, refuse and recyclable scrap (AG). Most are barred from the Interstate system with narrow corridor exceptions.
A Michigan border permit runs Michigan configurations 11 miles into Wisconsin
The MI multiple trip permit lets Michigan rigs and configurations hauling miscellaneous commodities operate in Wisconsin within 11 air miles of the Wisconsin-Michigan border, and lets raw forest products, lumber, or forestry biomass run further on specified corridors. Maximum permit weight is 164,000 pounds, well above anything else Wisconsin sells, and the 12-month fee runs $100 to $525 by weight.
Building movers need motor carrier authority and a CDL
The building mover (BM) permit covers a dwelling or structure at least 12 feet wide, 14 feet 3 inches high, or 100 feet long that is raised off an existing foundation, up to 15 feet high, 15 feet wide and 100 feet overall. Applicants must hold motor carrier authority, MC for interstate or LC for intrastate, which means insurance on file, and every driver towing the building must hold a valid CDL whose number goes on the permit application. Wis. Stat. s. 194.41(1) separately requires the department to demand cargo protection for a carrier transporting a building.
30-mile border agreements with three neighbours, and a Michigan fuel deal limited to forest products
Vehicles on Iowa, Minnesota or Michigan intrastate plates may run interstate within 30 air miles of the respective Wisconsin border without extra registration credentials, and Wisconsin-plated vehicles get the same going the other way. The fuel tax side is narrower: Iowa and Minnesota residents get full 30-mile IFTA reciprocity, but the Michigan fuel tax agreement, effective November 1, 2022, covers only qualified vehicles hauling raw forest products.
WisCRS is the one portal for IFTA and IRP, and it is changing its login
The Wisconsin Carrier Registration System handles IFTA renewals, replacement stickers and licences, quarterly returns and prior returns, plus IRP renewals, fleet additions, registration transfers, replacement plates and cab cards, and weight changes. Access runs on a WAMS user ID today; the state will move public users to a MyWisconsin ID before December 31, 2026. Oversize and overweight permits sit on a separate system at wi.gotpermits.com.
Overweight-only loads may move around the clock; oversize loads cannot
A permitted vehicle that is overweight but not oversize may operate 24 hours a day including weekends and restricted-travel holidays unless the permit says otherwise. Once the load is over 12 feet wide, 13 feet 6 inches high or 150 feet long, it is barred from moving during the hours of darkness, from noon Saturday until sunrise Sunday, and from noon the day before until sunrise the day after every restricted-travel holiday, which Wis. Adm. Code s. Trans 254.02(2)(c) lists.
No superload class, and no route or bridge review fee beyond $10
Wisconsin publishes no superload permit type; the word appears in none of ch. Trans 230, 250, 252 or 254. The single trip ceiling is set per axle instead, 20,000 pounds on the steering axle and 35,000 pounds on any other axle, with route-imposed limits on top. Where the size or weight forces a regional highway office to review the route the charge is $10.00 per district, and where the gross weight forces a review of specific highway structures it is $10.00 per review. The WisDOT escort grid separately requires one law enforcement escort for a load over 350,000 pounds.
More Wisconsin rules that catch carriers out
- State carrier number: issuer
- Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles, Motor Carrier Services
- State carrier number: detail
- Recorded once in the state intrastate authority page (B1) and repeated here only as the cross-reference. The number appears on the certificate WisDOT issues when authority is granted, prefixed LC for property and PC for passengers, and is quoted on later amendments and transfers of authority.
- Weight distance tax: note
- Wisconsin levies no weight-distance or weight-mile tax. Only New York, Kentucky, New Mexico and Oregon do, which is why this state carries no the state weight-distance tax page. WisDOT's own motor carrier credential index lists operating authority, IFTA, IRP, apportioned plates, trip permits, UCR, HVUT and oversize-overweight permits, and nothing resembling a mileage tax. Wisconsin's distance-based obligations are the quarterly IFTA return and the apportioned IRP registration, both administered by WisDOT Motor Carrier Services.
- ELD intrastate adoption: current text amendment
- CR 22-051 repealed and recreated s. Trans 327.03 (10), Register February 2024 No. 818, effective 3-1-24. The chapter as published carries Register November 2024 No. 827.
- ELD intrastate adoption: summary: text
- Wisconsin adopts 49 CFR part 395 for intrastate carriers at s. Trans 327.03 (10) (a) and then declines three pieces of it. Two of the three are the federal daily and weekly driving limits, and sub. (10) (b) writes Wisconsin's own clock in their place: 12 hours driving after 10 consecutive hours off duty, no driving after 16 hours on duty, 70 hours in 7 consecutive days, and 80 hours in 8 consecutive days. The third is dated. The record-of-duty-status paragraphs of 49 CFR 395.8 (a) (1) do not apply to operation on or before March 31, 2025, so the electronic logging device requirement reaches Wisconsin intrastate operation from April 1, 2025. Scope runs on Wisconsin statutory definitions rather than federal ones: s. Trans 327.09 (4) (b) lifts the hours subsection off any driver whose vehicle is not a commercial motor vehicle under s. 340.01 (8), Stats., which starts at 26,001 pounds.
- ELD intrastate adoption: adopted parts: value
- The federal motor carrier safety regulations listed in s. Trans 327.03 are adopted by the department and shall be enforced in relation to those carriers, drivers or vehicles which operate in intrastate commerce in the same manner as though the regulations were set out in full in the chapter. The list runs 49 CFR parts 390, 391, 392, 393, 396, 397, 382, 40, 395 and part 385 subpart C, each with its own named exceptions.
- ELD intrastate adoption: not adopted: value
- Section Trans 327.03 (10) (a) adopts 49 CFR part 395, hours of service of drivers, except as follows: 49 CFR 395.3 (a) (2) and (3) are not adopted; 49 CFR 395.3 (b) is not adopted; and 49 CFR 395.8 (a) (1) (i) through (iv) does not apply to operation on or before March 31, 2025. Nothing else in part 395 is carved out, so 395.1, 395.3 (a) (1), 395.3 (c), 395.5, 395.8 in all other respects, and the subpart B device specifications run at their federal text for intrastate Wisconsin drivers.
- ELD intrastate adoption: ELD compliance start: value
- Section Trans 327.03 (10) (a) 3. provides that 49 CFR 395.8 (a) (1) (i) through (iv) does not apply to operation on or before March 31, 2025. The paragraphs named are the record-of-duty-status methods in 49 CFR 395.8 (a) (1), which is where the electronic logging device requirement sits, so Wisconsin set its own intrastate start date for that requirement at April 1, 2025 rather than the federal December 18, 2017. The current federal section carries (a) (1) (i) through (iii) and has no paragraph (a) (1) (iv).
- ELD intrastate adoption: hours of service variance: regulation
- Wis. Adm. Code s. Trans 327.03 (10) (b), replacing 49 CFR 395.3 (a) (2), (a) (3) and (b) for intrastate operation
- ELD intrastate adoption: unmodified sections: value
- The exception list at s. Trans 327.03 (10) (a) is three lines long and names only 49 CFR 395.3 (a) (2), 395.3 (a) (3), 395.3 (b), and the dated suspension of 395.8 (a) (1) (i) through (iv). Everything else in part 395 runs at its federal text for intrastate Wisconsin drivers, including 395.1 with the 150 air-mile short-haul exception, 395.3 (a) (1) requiring 10 consecutive hours off duty before driving, 395.3 (c) allowing a 7-day or 8-day period to end with 34 or more consecutive hours off duty, 395.5 for passenger-carrying vehicles, and the subpart B electronic logging device specifications.
- ELD intrastate adoption: record of duty status: value
- Once the dated carve-out expired, 49 CFR 395.8 applies to intrastate Wisconsin drivers as written. Paragraph (a) (1) (i) requires a motor carrier operating commercial motor vehicles to install and require each of its drivers to use an electronic logging device to record duty status in accordance with subpart B of part 395. Paragraph (a) (1) (ii) (A) is the only route to a manual log, and its four cases are federal, not Wisconsin exceptions: a driver completing a record of duty status on not more than 8 days within any 30-day period, two driveaway-towaway situations, and a vehicle manufactured before model year 2000 as reflected in the vehicle identification number.
- ELD intrastate adoption: commercial motor vehicle definition: value
- Section Trans 327.09 (4) (b) lifts the hours-of-service subsection off drivers who operate motor vehicles that are not defined as a commercial motor vehicle in s. 340.01 (8), Stats. That statute defines a commercial motor vehicle as a motor vehicle designed or used to transport passengers or property with one or more of these characteristics: a single vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of 26,001 or more pounds or a registered weight or actual gross weight of more than 26,000 pounds; a combination vehicle with a gross combination weight rating, registered weight or actual gross weight of 26,001 or more pounds inclusive of a towed unit with a gross vehicle weight rating, registered weight or actual gross weight of more than 10,000 pounds; a vehicle designed to transport or actually transporting the driver and 15 or more passengers; or a vehicle transporting hazardous materials requiring placarding or any quantity of a material listed as a select agent or toxin under 42 CFR 73.
- ELD intrastate adoption: commercial motor vehicle definition: regulation
- Wis. Stat. s. 340.01 (8), applied by Wis. Adm. Code s. Trans 327.09 (4) (b)
- ELD intrastate adoption: declined federal exemption: value
- The federal compatibility rule lets a state exempt an intrastate commercial motor vehicle from all or part of its safety rules where the vehicle does not reach 11,801 kilograms (26,001 pounds), unless the vehicle is placarded for hazardous materials or is designed or used to transport 16 or more people including the driver. Wisconsin takes that permission for its hours-of-service subsection: the exemption at s. Trans 327.09 (4) (b) runs on the s. 340.01 (8) definition, whose single-vehicle floor is 26,001 pounds gross vehicle weight rating. The USDOT number trigger is a separate question and sits lower, at 10,001 pounds.
- ELD intrastate adoption: scope and exemptions: value
- Section Trans 327.09 (4) provides that the hours-of-service subsection does not apply to drivers of authorized emergency vehicles as defined in s. 340.01 (3), Stats., drivers who operate motor vehicles that are not defined as a commercial motor vehicle in s. 340.01 (8), Stats., or drivers of tow trucks as defined in s. 340.01 (67n), Stats., operating at the request of a law enforcement officer. Section Trans 327.09 (7) lifts the whole chapter off any farm truck or dual purpose farm truck combined with any semitrailer or farm trailer, and off any vehicle combined with a horse trailer, where the combination's gross combination weight rating, registered weight and actual gross weight all stay at or under 26,000 pounds, the combination includes no commercial motor vehicle described in s. 340.01 (8) (c) or (d), Stats., and it operates solely in intrastate commerce. Section Trans 327.09 (1) separately lifts the whole of s. Trans 327.03 off a school bus driver when the bus is being used for authorized educational or extracurricular school-related activities.
- ELD intrastate adoption: scope and exemptions: regulation
- Wis. Adm. Code s. Trans 327.09 (1), (4) and (7)
- ELD intrastate adoption: definitions rule: value
- Section Trans 327.01 provides that words and phrases defined in s. 340.01, Stats., and 49 CFR 390.5 have the same meaning in the chapter, and that where a word or phrase is defined in both, the s. 340.01 definition applies, except s. 340.01 (8), Stats. The exemption in s. Trans 327.09 (4) (b) then names s. 340.01 (8) expressly, so the Wisconsin statutory commercial motor vehicle definition is what scopes the hours-of-service subsection. Section 340.01 itself opens by providing that in s. 23.33 and chs. 340 to 349 and 351 the words and phrases it lists have the designated meanings unless a different meaning is expressly provided or the context clearly indicates a different meaning, so the same commercial motor vehicle line runs through the registration, size and weight, and driver licensing chapters.
- ELD intrastate adoption: commerce test: value
- The variance is written for intrastate commerce, and s. Trans 327.01 gives the 49 CFR 390.5 definitions the same meaning in the chapter. Interstate commerce there includes trade, traffic or transportation between two places in a State as part of trade, traffic or transportation originating or terminating outside the State or the United States, so a load moving between two Wisconsin addresses can still be an interstate run. Intrastate commerce is any trade, traffic or transportation in any State that the interstate definition does not describe.
- ELD intrastate adoption: commerce test: regulation
- 49 CFR 390.5, applied by Wis. Adm. Code s. Trans 327.01
- ELD intrastate adoption: out of service: value
- Section Trans 327.03 (7) authorizes every traffic officer and state patrol inspector employed under the authority of s. 110.07, Stats., to declare vehicles and drivers out of service in accordance with the North American Standard Out-of-Service Criteria, except that sub. (10) shall be used to determine the maximum number of hours allowed to drive after coming on duty. The Wisconsin numbers, not the federal ones, are what an intrastate driver is measured against at roadside.
- ELD intrastate adoption: passenger carrying: value
- The replacement clock at s. Trans 327.03 (10) (b) opens with the words no driver may drive a property-carrying vehicle, and 49 CFR 395.5, the federal maximum driving time for passenger-carrying vehicles, is not among the chapter's exceptions. An intrastate Wisconsin passenger carrier therefore runs the federal passenger clock: 10 hours driving following 8 consecutive hours off duty, no driving after 15 hours on duty following 8 consecutive hours off duty, and 60 hours in 7 consecutive days or 70 hours in 8 consecutive days.
- ELD intrastate adoption: passenger carrying: regulation
- 49 CFR 395.5, adopted through Wis. Adm. Code s. Trans 327.03 (10) (a)
- ELD intrastate adoption: enforcement: value
- Section Trans 327.07 (2) provides that s. Trans 327.03 (1), (2), (3), (6), (8) and (10) shall be enforced under the provisions of ch. 194, Stats. That is the same chapter of the statutes that issues the Local Cartage certificate, so the intrastate hours rule and the intrastate authority sit under one enforcement chapter. Section Trans 327.11 separately provides that no demerit points may be assessed for violations of the regulations adopted in the chapter.
- ELD intrastate adoption: enforcement: regulation
- Wis. Adm. Code s. Trans 327.07 (2) and s. Trans 327.11
- ELD intrastate adoption: notes
- Authored 2026-08-05 by reading ch. Trans 327 in full from the Legislative Reference Bureau's published chapter PDF (Register November 2024 No. 827) and s. 340.01 from the legislature's own document server, with the federal counterparts read the same day from the eCFR versioner API for title 49 parts 350 and 395. The dated line in sub. (10) (a) 3. is modelled as effective_from 2025-04-01 so the freshness gate can watch it. Nothing on this page is inferred: where the rule text names a paragraph range the current federal section does not carry, that mismatch is recorded rather than resolved.
ELD intrastate adoption: hours of service variance: items
| Name | Intrastate | Federal interstate | Regulation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Driving time | No driver may drive a property-carrying vehicle for more than 12 hours following 10 consecutive hours off duty. | A driver may drive a total of 11 hours during the 14 consecutive hours after coming on duty following 10 consecutive hours off duty. | Wis. Adm. Code s. Trans 327.03 (10) (b) 1., in place of 49 CFR 395.3 (a) (3) (i) |
| On-duty ceiling | No driver may drive a property-carrying vehicle for any period after having been on duty for 16 hours following 10 consecutive hours off duty. | A driver may not drive after a period of 14 consecutive hours after coming on duty following 10 consecutive hours off duty. | Wis. Adm. Code s. Trans 327.03 (10) (b) 2., in place of 49 CFR 395.3 (a) (2) |
| Weekly limit, 7 days | No driver may drive a property-carrying vehicle after having been on duty for 70 hours in any period of 7 consecutive days. The state text sets no condition on how many days a week the carrier operates. | 60 hours on duty in any period of 7 consecutive days if the employing motor carrier does not operate commercial motor vehicles every day of the week. | Wis. Adm. Code s. Trans 327.03 (10) (b) 3., in place of 49 CFR 395.3 (b) (1) |
| Weekly limit, 8 days | No driver may drive a property-carrying vehicle after having been on duty for 80 hours in any period of 8 consecutive days. The state text sets no condition on how many days a week the carrier operates. | 70 hours on duty in any period of 8 consecutive days if the employing motor carrier operates commercial motor vehicles every day of the week. | Wis. Adm. Code s. Trans 327.03 (10) (b) 4., in place of 49 CFR 395.3 (b) (2) |
| 30-minute interruption | Not adopted as part of the state text. Section Trans 327.03 (10) (a) 1. declines 49 CFR 395.3 (a) (3) whole, and that paragraph carries both the 11-hour driving limit and the 30-minute interruption of driving time. The four prohibitions Wisconsin writes at sub. (10) (b) are driving and on-duty ceilings, none of them a break. | Except for drivers who qualify for either of the short-haul exceptions in 49 CFR 395.1 (e) (1) or (2), driving is not permitted if more than 8 hours of driving time have passed without at least a consecutive 30-minute interruption in driving status. | Wis. Adm. Code s. Trans 327.03 (10) (a) 1., declining 49 CFR 395.3 (a) (3) |
The permit office and how to reach it
The Oversize-Overweight Permit Unit sits inside the WisDOT Bureau of Highway Maintenance and issues through an automated online system. Every permit type can be self-issued or renewed at the portal. A mailed application runs on a published minimum turnaround measured in days, and the Madison counter is closed, though a drop box outside the office building is collected once each weekday.
One limit worth knowing before you apply: WisDOT does not permit local roads. A move on a town road or a city street takes permission from the officer in charge of maintenance for that highway.
The permit types Wisconsin issues
Two shapes cover most work. A single trip permit authorises one routed trip over a short validity window, with a return leg at no extra charge when it is requested on the original application. A multiple trip permit runs from three months to a year, allows unlimited trips, and leaves routing to the carrier, subject to posted bridges and local conditions.
Past those two, Wisconsin sells an unusually long bench of commodity permits keyed to what is in the trailer: farm produce, feed and fertiliser, fluid milk and milk byproduct, raw forest products, fruit and vegetables, hay and straw, bulk potatoes and potato seed, and a border permit for Michigan configurations. Most are barred from the Interstate system with narrow corridor exceptions.
Our Wisconsin oversize and overweight page carries the fee schedules, the escort grid and the weight ceilings with their sources.
Seasonal weight programmes cut both ways
Wisconsin runs three of them on the state highway system. The frozen road declaration normally opens in late December and lets legally licensed trucks hauling winter maintenance abrasives or salt, and peeled or unpeeled forest products cut crosswise, carry more weight with no special permit.
Then the direction reverses. From early or mid March into late April or early May, the class II roads programme suspends most divisible-load multiple trip permits statewide and closes roughly a tenth of the state highway system to overweight nondivisible permits, while the seasonal posted roads programme adds locally posted limits. Counties and towns set their own timing on their own roads. WisDOT publishes current status on a recorded phone line.
Travel windows and curfews
Wisconsin splits its restrictions by load size rather than applying one rule to everything. A permitted vehicle that is overweight only, and legal in every dimension, may run around the clock including weekends and restricted-travel holidays unless its permit says otherwise. Once a load passes the published width, height or length lines it loses night travel, loses Saturday afternoon through Sunday sunrise, and loses the window around every restricted-travel holiday.
Five counties add an afternoon curfew for smaller permitted loads that the other sixty-seven do not, and the Milwaukee County Expressway and the Madison Beltline carry their own weekday rush-hour bans. Our Wisconsin oversize and overweight page carries each window with its source.
Compare beyond Wisconsin
Running multi-state loads? The trucking permits by state table shows which permit families and issuing offices apply in every jurisdiction, the oversize permit costs by state table compares limits and fees across all 51 jurisdictions, and the permit cost estimator prices a specific load per state.
Frequently asked questions
Where do I apply for Wisconsin truck permits?
- Oversize and overweight permits go through the WisDOT automated permit issuance system, where every type can be self-issued or renewed. Operating authority, IRP and IFTA are separate and belong to WisDOT Motor Carrier Services.
Does Wisconsin offer an annual oversize permit?
- Yes, the multiple trip permit. It runs from three months to a year, allows unlimited trips within the size and weight it authorises, and leaves routing to the carrier. Nondivisible loads, mobile cranes and mobile homes each have their own dimension ceilings.
Are there commodity-specific permits in Wisconsin?
- Yes, and the list is long. WisDOT sells multiple trip permits keyed to farm produce, feed and fertiliser, fluid milk and milk byproduct, raw forest products, fruit and vegetables, hay and straw, bulk potatoes, potato seed, and Michigan border configurations, among others.
When can permitted loads not move in Wisconsin?
- Larger loads stay off the road during darkness, from Saturday noon until Sunday sunrise, and around every restricted-travel holiday. Five counties add an afternoon curfew for smaller permitted loads, and two urban corridors add weekday rush-hour bans. Overweight-only loads are treated more loosely.
Do Wisconsin permits work on town and city roads?
- Not automatically. WisDOT permits the state highway system; permits for local roads are issued by the officer in charge of maintenance for that highway. Several commodity permits also require written local route approval before you use them off the state system.
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