§ 9-20-5-2 — Maximum weight limitations; heavy duty highways

Indiana § 9-20-5-2

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 9: MOTOR VEHICLES
• Art. 20: SIZE AND WEIGHT REGULATION
• Ch. 5: Heavy Duty Highways and Extra Heavy Duty Highways

Text

Whenever the Indiana department of
transportation designates a heavy duty highway, the department shall
also fix the maximum weights of vehicles that may be transported on
the highway. The maximum weights may not exceed the following
limitations:
(1) A vehicle may not have a maximum wheel weight, unladen or
with load, in excess of eight hundred (800) pounds per inch width
of tire, measured between the flanges of the rim, or an axle weight
in excess of twenty-two thousand four hundred (22,400) pounds.
(2) The total weight concentrated on the roadway surface from
any tandem axle group may not exceed eighteen thousand
(18,000) pounds for each axle of the assembly.
(3) The total gross weight, with load, in pounds of a vehicle or
combination of vehicles may not exceed eighty thousand (80,000)
pounds.
[Pre-1991 Recodification Citation: 9-8-1-12(d) part.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.8.