In addition to other permits authorized to be issued for overweight loads, the Department of Transportation is authorized to issue annual special permits for vehicles transporting heavy equipment with a nondivisible load having a gross vehicle weight of one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) pounds or less. The permit shall be issued for the pulling unit. The department may establish rules and regulations for the issuance and transference of the permit from one pulling unit to another. The fee for such permit shall be Four Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($4,500.00) and the permit shall expire one (1) year from the beginning movement date. Movements under such permit shall be made under such safety and equipment restrictions as the department may establish. The department shall specify the routes over which such movements may be conducted.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations
Chapter 5 - Size, Weight and Load
§ 63-5-7. Operation of vehicle in violation of chapter
§ 63-5-9. Applicability of chapter
§ 63-5-11. Power and authority of local authorities to alter limitations
§ 63-5-15. Side projecting loads on passenger vehicles
§ 63-5-21. Vehicle length limitations; exceptions
§ 63-5-23. Front projecting loads on vehicles
§ 63-5-29. Gross weight of vehicle and loads; Table I
§ 63-5-31. Gross weight of vehicle and loads; Table II
§ 63-5-33. Gross weight of vehicle and loads; Table III
§ 63-5-34. Gross weight of vehicle and loads; exceptions
§ 63-5-37. Axles suspended by equalizing system
§ 63-5-41. "Gross weight" and "gross load" defined
§ 63-5-43. Enforcement of Sections 63-5-29 through 63-5-41
§ 63-5-47. Transportation of commodities to or from terminal or port facilities on Mississippi River