The Connecticut answer
Legal limits
First escort trigger
What the paper costs
- Single-trip base
- $30 · caveat ↓rev. · read
- Transaction / card
- $12 · caveat ↓rev. · read
- How overweight is priced
- Graduated weight bands · caveat ↓rev. · read
- Superload above
- 200,000 lb and up · caveat ↓rev. · read
The short version: a Connecticut single-trip permit starts at $30 before bands, overweight and the transaction charge; an escort is first required at over 12' wide; and the load becomes a superload at over 200,000 lb. Everything below carries the Connecticut document it came from, that document's own revision date, and the date we read it.
1. Where the load goes next
The jurisdictions this one borders, each chip carrying the fact that decides whether that crossing is the expensive one — so the row is itself a small comparison. A multi-state lane is the actual job, and from here it is one click per state rather than a return to an alphabetical index.
2. Connecticut legal limits
Anything over one of these needs a permit. Every value links to the document that sets it.
| Measure | Legal limit |
|---|---|
| Width | 8'6"rev. · read §14-262(a)(1) requires a permit for "A vehicle, combination of vehicle and trailer or commercial vehicle combination, including each such vehicle's load, which is WIDER THAN ONE HUNDRED TWO INCHES or its approximate metric equivalent of two and six-tenths meters or one hundred two and thirty-six-hundredths inches, including its load, but not including the following safety devices: Reasonably sized rear view mirrors, turn signals, steps and handholds for entry and egress, spray and splash suppressant devices, load-induced tire bulge … provided no such state-approved safety device protrudes more than three inches from each side." EXCLUSIVE — a load at exactly 102 in needs no Connecticut permit. |
| Height | 13'6"rev. · read §14-264: "No vehicle, except a vehicle loaded with loose hay or straw, whose height, with its load, EXCEEDS THIRTEEN FEET SIX INCHES, shall be operated upon any highway or bridge without a special written permit." EXCLUSIVE. Note the loose-hay-or-straw exemption, which this engine does not evaluate because a quote states no commodity. |
| Semitrailer length | 53'rev. · read §14-262(c): the semitrailer portion of a tractor-trailer unit is capped at 48 ft, extended to "greater than forty-eight feet and LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO fifty-three feet" where the kingpin-to-rearmost-axle distance is no more than 43 ft, on US and Connecticut routes 1–399, 450, 476, 508, 693, 695, the Interstate system, and state and local roads for up to one mile from those for access to terminals, food, fuel, repair, rest and loading points. 53 ft is recorded because that route list is the whole usable network and because the 48 ft figure would invent a permit on every ordinary trailer in the state; the 48 ft base survives on a road outside the list, which this engine does not model. A SINGLE UNIT VEHICLE IS SEPARATELY CAPPED AT 45 FT — "The maximum length, including load, of a single unit vehicle shall be forty-five feet" — and the schema has no single-unit length field, so that figure is recorded here and not evaluated. |
| Overall length | None published |
| Kingpin to rear axle | 43'rev. · read §14-262(c): a trailer over 48 ft and up to 53 ft must have "a distance of no more than FORTY-THREE FEET between the kingpin and the center of the rearmost axle with wheels in contact with the road surface". INCLUSIVE ("no more than"), and a condition of the 53 ft allowance rather than a general limit — a 48 ft trailer is subject to no published Connecticut KPRA cap. |
| Front overhang | None published |
| Rear overhang | None published |
| Gross weight | 80,000 lbrev. · read §14-267a(b)(8): "a vehicle or combination of vehicle and semitrailer may be operated on any highway or bridge without a written permit, provided it is in compliance with the axle requirements specified in subdivision (1) … and provided such vehicle or combination is in compliance with the federal-aid highway amendments of 1974 … including the GROSS VEHICLE WEIGHT LIMIT OF EIGHTY THOUSAND POUNDS and the following weight distribution formula." CONNECTICUT'S STATE-LAW LADDER IS LOWER AT LOW AXLE COUNTS AND IS NOT EVALUATED HERE, because this field holds one number and the ladder is keyed to axle count: "(2) a two-axle vehicle … shall not exceed a maximum gross vehicle weight of THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND POUNDS; (3) a three-axle vehicle … FIFTY-THREE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS; (4) a three-axle combination of vehicle and trailer or vehicle and semitrailer … FIFTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS; (5) a four-or-more-axle vehicle or combination … SIXTY-SEVEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS; (6) a four-or-more-axle vehicle or combination … where the distance between the first and last axle is not less than twenty-eight feet … SEVENTY-THREE THOUSAND POUNDS." A three-axle combination at 60,000 lb needs a Connecticut permit and this engine will not report it. ALSO NOT EVALUATED: §14-270(b) caps a permit at the registered weight — "Any permit issued in respect to any vehicle … on account of its excessive weight shall be limited to the gross weight shown or to be shown on the commercial registration certificate or any commercial registration certificate issued on an apportionment basis" — so a Connecticut permit cannot be issued above the vehicle's registered gross, whatever this engine computes. |
| Single axle | 22,400 lbrev. · read §14-267a(b)(1): "The weight on any single axle shall not exceed TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS or, in the case of axles spaced less than six feet apart, EIGHTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS on each axle." 22,400 lb IS 2,400 lb ABOVE THE FIGURE MOST OF THIS CORPUS CARRIES — substituting the usual 20,000 would invent a Connecticut permit, and a Connecticut permit is $42. The 18,000 lb sub-six-foot case is NOT recorded as a second row: two unconditional rows with different values would read as a source disagreeing with itself and send every Connecticut quote to review over a distinction the statute states plainly. It is recorded here instead, and it is the figure that governs an ordinary tandem — see `tandemAxleLbs`. |
| Tandem axle | Not yet covered |
3. The Connecticut escort ladder
Not one number per dimension — the whole staircase. Each row is a condition the state actually publishes, what it requires when that condition holds, and the clause it comes from. Where a rule requires escorts and the source states no number, the row says that in the source's own words rather than reporting no requirement.
| When | What is required | Source |
|---|---|---|
| width from 12' (exclusive) to 13'6" (exclusive) and the road is “interstate” or “divided” | 1 certified escort1 behind |
PRIMARY TEXT, SECONDARY HOST. (d): "All vehic…rev. · read |
| width over 12' | 1 certified escort |
PRIMARY TEXT, SECONDARY HOST. (d): "All vehic…rev. · read |
| width from 12' (exclusive) to 13'6" and not (the road is “interstate” or “divided”) | 1 in front |
PRIMARY, and THE ONLY CITABLE SOURCE OF A CON…rev. · read |
| width over 13'5" and height over 15' | 1 police escort in front1 police escort behindAdvisory: CTDOT escort grid, row "Over 13'-5" Width & Over 15' Height | | | | | X | X": a Connecticut State Police escort front and rear. EXCLUSIVE on both limbs ("Over"). The civilian escorts come from the width and height rows. Connecticut publishes no CSP rate, so the two officers are priced at the owner planning fallback, not an agency tariff. |
PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revisi…undated document · read |
| height of 15'1" or more and width of 13'6" or more | 1 certified escort1 in front1 police escort in front1 police escort behindAdvisory: CTDOT escort grid, row "15'-1" high or greater and 13'-6" in width or wider | X | | X | | X | X": one front civilian escort and a Connecticut State Police escort front and rear. INCLUSIVE on both limbs. |
PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revisi…undated document · read |
| width of 13'6" or more | 2 certified escorts1 in front1 behindAdvisory: CTDOT escort grid, row "13'-6" or greater | X | X | X | X | ** | **": one front and one rear civilian escort on divided and undivided highways, and the State Police escort "determined by CTDOT at time of Permit issuance". |
PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revisi…undated document · read |
| height over 14' | 1 certified escort1 in frontAdvisory: CTDOT escort grid, row "Greater than 14'-0" | X | | X | | ** | **": one front civilian escort on divided and undivided highways; the State Police escort is determined at issuance. At 14 ft 6 in the front escort must be the pole car (rule above). |
PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revisi…undated document · read |
| height of 14'6" or more | 1 in frontHeight pole requiredAdvisory: CTDOT: "A Front Pole Car is required for all loads 14'-6" high or greater. The front pole car can be used as a civilian escort when it meets all escort vehicle requirements." Escort-vehicle specifications are set by R.C.S.A. §14-270-21, which was NOT retrieved; the FAQ restates them as a 60 in minimum vehicle width, a 1½ ton maximum capacity, two-way radio between escort and load, and a sign at least 5 ft long and 12 in high reading "OVERSIZE LOAD" in black on yellow. |
PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revisi…undated document · read |
| width of 15' or more | 3 certified escorts1 in front2 behindAdvisory: CTDOT escort grid, row "15'-0" or greater | X | XX | X | XX | ** | **": one front and two rear civilian escorts on divided and undivided highways. INCLUSIVE ("or greater"). Connecticut's maximum width is 16 ft ("WIDTH - Maximum width 16'-0""). The State Police escort is determined at issuance and, if required, may replace one civilian escort. |
PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revisi…undated document · read |
| height of 15'4" or more | 1 certified escort1 in front1 police escort in front1 police escort behindAdvisory: CTDOT escort grid, row "15'-4" high or greater | X | | X | | X | X": one front civilian escort (the 14'6" pole car) and a Connecticut State Police escort front and rear. INCLUSIVE. Connecticut publishes no CSP rate; the officers are priced at the owner planning fallback. |
PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revisi…undated document · read |
| overall length over 80' and not (the road is “interstate” or “divided”) | 1 certified escort1 behindAdvisory: CTDOT escort grid, row "Greater than 80'-0" | | | | X | ** | **": one rear civilian escort on an undivided highway and none on a divided one; the State Police escort is determined at issuance. EXCLUSIVE ("Greater than"). |
PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revisi…undated document · read |
| overall length over 100' | 1 certified escort1 behindAdvisory: CTDOT escort grid, row "Greater than 100'-0" | | X | X | X | ** | **": one rear civilian escort on a divided highway; a front AND a rear on an undivided one (the rule beside this). EXCLUSIVE ("Greater than"). |
PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revisi…undated document · read |
| overall length over 100' and not (the road is “interstate” or “divided”) | 1 in front1 behind |
PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revisi…undated document · read |
| overall length over 119'11" | 2 certified escorts1 in front1 behind1 police escort in front1 police escort behindAdvisory: CTDOT escort grid, row "Greater than 119'-11" | X | X | X | X | X | X": front and rear civilian escorts on divided and undivided highways AND a Connecticut State Police escort front and rear. Connecticut publishes no CSP rate; the officers are priced at the owner planning fallback, not an agency tariff. |
PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revisi…undated document · read |
The first trigger in each dimension
| Measurement | First escort trigger | First police escort trigger |
|---|---|---|
| Width | over 12'rev. · read | over 13'5"undated document · read |
| Height | over 14'undated document · read | over 15'undated document · read |
| Length | over 80'undated document · read · varies by road class | over 119'11"undated document · read |
| Rear overhang | None published | None published |
| Gross weight | None published | None published |
The same rules restated in plain sentences18 rules
- Over 12 ft wide — one pilot car (Regs. Conn. State Agencies § 14-270-21(d)) — PRIMARY TEXT, SECONDARY HOST. (d): "All vehicles or loads exceeding 12 feet in width, or the lane width, will require a pilot car." (c): "When a single escort/pilot car is required, it shall precede on two or three lane conventional roads or follow on four or more lane divided roads. When two pilot cars are required, one shall precede and one shall follow the piloted load or vehicle. The permit may require additional pilot cars." Consistent with the FAQ grid row "Greater than 12'-0" but less than 13'-6"", which carries exactly two civilian marks (the divided-rear and undivided-front cells) and the CSP "**" footnote. rev. · read
- One-pilot-car load on a divided highway of four or more lanes — the pilot car FOLLOWS (§ 14-270-21(c)) — PRIMARY TEXT, SECONDARY HOST. (d): "All vehicles or loads exceeding 12 feet in width, or the lane width, will require a pilot car." (c): "When a single escort/pilot car is required, it shall precede on two or three lane conventional roads or follow on four or more lane divided roads. When two pilot cars are required, one shall precede and one shall follow the piloted load or vehicle. The permit may require additional pilot cars." Consistent with the FAQ grid row "Greater than 12'-0" but less than 13'-6"", which carries exactly two civilian marks (the divided-rear and undivided-front cells) and the CSP "**" footnote. rev. · read
- Over 12 ft and up to 13 ft 6 in wide on an undivided highway — one escort in FRONT, and no rear escort is required (C.G.S. §14-270(b)) — PRIMARY, and THE ONLY CITABLE SOURCE OF A CONNECTICUT FEE FIGURE — CTDOT publishes no fee schedule, so there is no second document to cross-check against. Source of every legal limit, the $30 permit fee (§14-270(d)(1)), the $12 electronic transmittal fee ((d)(2)), the $2 per 1,000 lb analysis fee above 200,000 lb ((d)(6)), the statutory 12 ft–13 ft 6 in undivided-highway front-escort rule (§14-270(b)) and the registered-weight cap on a permit ((b)). The consolidated revision carries public-act history to "P.A. 22-40, S. 11", effective 2022-07-01, which is the only date the text itself states. RETRIEVAL METHOD: cga.ct.gov rejected the research tool's TLS chain ("unable to verify the first certificate"), so the text was fetched with `curl` from the same host and parsed locally. The content is cga.ct.gov's and is PRIMARY; only the transport differed. rev. · read
- 14 ft 6 in high or greater — a front pole car is required, and it may double as the civilian escort when it meets the escort-vehicle requirements — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
- Width 13 ft 6 in or greater — one front and one rear escort, on divided and undivided highways alike (CTDOT FAQ escort grid) — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
- Width 15 ft or greater — one front and two rear civilian escorts, on divided and undivided highways alike — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
- Over 13 ft 5 in wide AND over 15 ft high — Connecticut State Police escorts front and rear — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
- Over 14 ft high — one front civilian escort, on divided and undivided highways alike — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
- 15 ft 1 in high or greater AND 13 ft 6 in wide or wider — one front civilian escort and State Police escorts front and rear — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
- 15 ft 4 in high or greater — one front civilian escort and State Police escorts front and rear — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
- Over 80 ft long on an undivided highway — one rear civilian escort — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
- Over 100 ft long — one rear civilian escort on divided and undivided highways alike — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
- Over 100 ft long on an undivided highway — a front civilian escort as well as the rear — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
- Over 119 ft 11 in long — front and rear civilian escorts and State Police escorts front and rear — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
- Over 102 in and up to 12 ft wide — a civilian escort is required only if the load exceeds the lane width, which is not a dimension on a quote — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
- Any Connecticut permit move — a state-police escort may be required, and CTDOT decides at issuance with no published threshold and no published rate — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
- Superload in Connecticut — over 150 ft long, 16 ft wide, 16 ft high or 200,000 lb: night travel only, typically with state-police escorts, and priced by CTDOT after review — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
- Over 13 ft 6 in high — CTDOT may require a route survey before the permit can be ordered, and publishes no height threshold for it — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere. undated document · read
4. Connecticut single-trip permit fees
| Charge | Amount |
|---|---|
| Single-trip base | $30rev. · read §14-270(d)(1): "The owner or lessee of any vehicle may pay either a fee of THIRTY DOLLARS for each permit issued for such vehicle under this section or a fee as described in subdivision (3) of this subsection for such vehicle, payable to the Department of Transportation." DATED TO THE ACT THAT SET IT: the section's own history note records that "May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3 … amended Subsec. (d) by changing fee from $23 TO $30 in Subdiv. (1) … effective July 1, 2016". THE BROKER FIGURE OF $15 IS UNOFFICIAL AND CONTRADICTED BY THE STATUTE — do not substitute it. The $12 electronic transmittal fee is a separate row under `transactionFee`, because it has a different statutory basis and a different amendment history; the all-in single-trip cost is about $42. The alternatives in (d)(3)-(4) are not single-trip products and are not applied: an annual permit at "nine dollars per thousand pounds or fraction thereof", any increment up to a year at "one hundred dollars for such vehicle or vehicle and trailer for each month or fraction thereof", and an annual oversize-indivisible floor that "shall not be less than six hundred fifty dollars". EXEMPT PAYERS, recorded and not modelled: "(f) The provisions of subsection (d) of this section shall not apply to the federal government, the state, municipalities or fire departments." |
| Transaction / card | $12rev. · read §14-270(d)(2): "An additional transmittal fee of TWELVE DOLLARS shall be charged for each permit issued under this section and transmitted via electronic means." Dated by the section's own history note: "P.A. 22-40 amended Subsec. (d) to change transmittal fee from $5 TO $12 in Subdiv. (2) … effective July 1, 2022." TREAT AS MANDATORY: CTDOT states that "Online credit and debit card (Visa, MasterCard and Discover) payments are the only accepted methods of payment", so there is no non-electronic path that avoids it. THE ALL-IN SINGLE-TRIP COST IS THEREFORE ABOUT $42 — $30 + $12. `percentOfTotal` is a sourced zero: §14-270(d) was read in full and contains no percentage, convenience or processing charge. |
| Route analysis review | Not yet covered |
| Route with no bridges | $0rev. · read Connecticut charges nothing per structure, and nothing extra or less for a route without bridges. §14-270(d) contains only the six charges listed in `conditionalFees`' comment, and the sole engineering charge — (d)(6) — is priced on weight rather than on structures. Read in full. |
5. How Connecticut prices overweight
Graduated weight bands. C.G.S. §14-270(d) prices a single-trip permit's weight in two steps and both are in the statute. Up to 200,000 lb there is no weight charge at all: (d)(1) is "a fee of thirty dollars for each permit issued for such vehicle under this section", with no band, no per-ton rate, no charge per increment over a legal limit, no per-axle and no per-mile component, and the subsection never distinguishes an oversize permit from an overweight one — a 160,000 lb move and a one-inch-over-width move pay the same $30 plus the $12 transmittal fee. Above 200,000 lb (d)(6) adds "an additional engineering analysis fee of two dollars per thousand pounds or fraction thereof over two hundred thousand pounds". Those are the two bands in `overweightBands`: a sourced $0 to 200,000 lb and the per-increment charge above it. Weight also scales in the ANNUAL permit, at "nine dollars per thousand pounds or fraction thereof" under (d)(3), which is not a single-trip product and is not applied.
Dated to P.A. 16-3, the act that last set the $30 in (d)(1); (d) as a whole was last amended by P.A. 22-40, effective 2022-07-01, which added (d)(6) and left (d)(1) untouched. (d) was read in full, subdivisions (1) through (6). RECORDED AS `bands` RATHER THAN `includedInBaseFee`, WHICH IS A CHANGE AND IS ARGUED HERE RATHER THAN MADE QUIETLY: `includedInBaseFee` is an accurate description of (d)(1) and an incomplete description of (d), because (d)(6) steps the charge by weight on the same permit. The engine's `includedInBaseFee` arm never reads `overweightBands`, so under the old recording Connecticut's one published weight-scaled single-trip charge was unreachable — which went unnoticed only because the superload gate suppressed every Connecticut fee line above 200,000 lb anyway. Corroborated independently of the statute by CTDOT's own permits page, which lists the single trip at "$30.00 with an additional $12.00 electronic transmittal fee" and the engineering analysis as applying to single-trip permits over 200,000 lb at "$2.00 per each thousand pounds over 200,000 lbs".The bands, as published
| Gross weight | Axles | Fee | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 lb – 200,000 lb | any | $0 | PRIMARY, and THE ONLY CITABLE SOURCE OF A CON…rev. · read |
| 200,001 lb and up | any | $0plus $2 per 1,000 lb above 200,000 lb (any part increment is charged in full) | PRIMARY, and THE ONLY CITABLE SOURCE OF A CON…rev. · read |
6. Connecticut seasonal posting windows
A permit priced against an unposted-road assumption in March is simply wrong, and wrong in the expensive direction. This is the window we watch, the basis for that window in the state's own orders or statute, and the authority that posts it.
Connecticut is not in the seasonal-restriction registry, so we hold no posting window for it and are not inventing one.
7. Connecticut's superload threshold
Above one of these, the state stops issuing over the counter and prices the move after an engineering review.
| Trigger | Threshold |
|---|---|
| Gross weight | over 200,000 lbrev. · read THE STATUTORY ANCHOR FOR THE SAME NUMBER: §14-270(d)(6) attaches the engineering analysis fee to a load "that EXCEEDS a permit weight of two hundred thousand pounds", enacted by P.A. 22-40 effective 2022-07-01. Same figure, same exclusive form, so Connecticut effectively prices after engineering review above 200,000 lb and the threshold is traceable to statute rather than only to an FAQ. |
| Width | over 16'undated document · read CTDOT superload parameters: "Width 16 feet", triggered "when any of the following parameters are EXCEEDED". The same 16 ft appears as the escort grid's stated ceiling, "WIDTH - Maximum width 16'-0"" — an internal agreement worth noting, and the reason no `permitEnvelopes` row claims 16 ft is a refusal to issue. |
| Height | over 16'undated document · read CTDOT superload parameters: "Height 16 feet", EXCLUSIVE. |
| Length | over 150'undated document · read CTDOT superload parameters: "Length 150 feet", EXCLUSIVE. Note that this is the SUPERLOAD length and sits well above the escort grid's highest length row, "Greater than 119'-11"". |
| Short axle spacing | Not yet covered |
8. Route survey and bridge review
The dimensions at which Connecticut triggers a physical route inspection or an engineering review, and what the agency charges to review it.
| Measurement | Inspection / review trigger |
|---|---|
| Width | Not yet covered |
| Height | Not yet covered |
| Length | Not yet covered |
9. Police escorts
Charges exist and no schedule is published. CONNECTICUT'S OWN LEGISLATURE RESEARCHED THIS QUESTION AND FOUND NO RATE EITHER. OLR Report 2016-R-0195, titled "State Police Escorts for Oversize and Overweight Vehicles", surveys Connecticut and five neighbours and prices none of them. On Connecticut it is explicit that the requirement itself is not codified: "Although neither law nor regulation requires state police escorts, a DOT permit for nonconforming vehicles may specify the presence and number of escort vehicles (including but not limited to police escorts)", and CTDOT's own permit page says only that "The need for Connecticut State Police escort(s) will be determined by CTDOT at the time of permit issuance." Neither CGS §14-270, Conn. Agency Regs. §14-270-21 nor the CTDOT FAQ states an hourly rate, minimum hours, officer minimum, mileage charge or cancellation fee.
This is a positive finding: we searched and there is nothing to quote. It is not the same as "no police escort is ever required here".
10. When you can move it
Holiday, curfew and night-travel windows are not yet encoded for Connecticut. The seasonal picture — which is a different question — is in section 6 above.
Why those windows are absent rather than estimated
They are not guessed at here. What we do publish is the seasonal weight-restriction picture, with the date we last read each state's own bulletin — a curfew invented from a plausible pattern is worth less than an honest gap, because a reader cannot tell the two apart on the page.
11. Permit office
The agency behind each figure above is linked from that figure. We publish no per-state permit-office phone number.
Why there is no phone number here
We are not publishing per-state permit-office phone numbers yet, and the reason is worth stating: the two seed lists available for them are both demonstrably stale — the federal one gives two different states the same phone number — and a wrong number on a page like this costs somebody a morning. The agency behind each figure above is linked from that figure, which is the part we can stand behind today.
12. What this does not include
Named rather than gestured at, because each of these can exceed the permit itself. Every item is listed; open one for why it is excluded.
Line haul, fuel and driver time
This is a permit fee, not a freight rate.
Civilian pilot car rates
We hold no rate data, and the two commercial sites that publish market rates disagree by nearly a factor of two on the same service.
Route-survey engineering
The agency's review fee is shown where the state publishes one; the engineer's own fee is a private cost with no schedule.
Bonds and escrow
Set per move by the agency, and in at least one state the escort is billed at actual cost against it.
Utility coordination and line lifts
Arranged with each utility, priced by each utility.
Second-issuer permits
A toll, bridge or city authority inside the same state issues its own permit, and a state total that omits it is missing a whole permit.
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13. Every source behind this page (3)
Every document behind Connecticut3 sources
- Connecticut General Statutes Chapter 248 §§14-262, 14-262a, 14-264, 14-267a, 14-270 — vehicle highway use — Connecticut General Assembly — PRIMARY, and THE ONLY CITABLE SOURCE OF A CONNECTICUT FEE FIGURE — CTDOT publishes no fee schedule, so there is no second document to cross-check against. Source of every legal limit, the $30 permit fee (§14-270(d)(1)), the $12 electronic transmittal fee ((d)(2)), the $2 per 1,000 lb analysis fee above 200,000 lb ((d)(6)), the statutory 12 ft–13 ft 6 in undivided-highway front-escort rule (§14-270(b)) and the registered-weight cap on a permit ((b)). The consolidated revision carries public-act history to "P.A. 22-40, S. 11", effective 2022-07-01, which is the only date the text itself states. RETRIEVAL METHOD: cga.ct.gov rejected the research tool's TLS chain ("unable to verify the first certificate"), so the text was fetched with `curl` from the same host and parsed locally. The content is cga.ct.gov's and is PRIMARY; only the transport differed.
rev. · read - CTDOT Oversize/Overweight Permits — FAQ (legal limits, escort grid, superload parameters) — Connecticut Department of Transportation, Office of OS/OW Permits — PRIMARY agency web; the page states no revision date, so `revisedOn` is null and the rows take P.A. 22-40's effective date from the instrument the page restates. Source of the MANUFACTURED GOODS AND EQUIPMENT escort grid — row thresholds and, as parsed with the table structure kept on 2026-11-07, each row's civilian (divided/undivided front/rear) and Connecticut State Police (front/rear) cells — the 14 ft 6 in front pole car rule, the CSP-determined-at-issuance footnote, the superload parameters and the card-only payment statement. The page states NO dollar amount anywhere.
undated document · read - Regs. Conn. State Agencies § 14-270-21 — Escort (pilot car) vehicles and flagmen — State of Connecticut (Cornell LII mirror of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies) — PRIMARY TEXT, SECONDARY HOST. (d): "All vehicles or loads exceeding 12 feet in width, or the lane width, will require a pilot car." (c): "When a single escort/pilot car is required, it shall precede on two or three lane conventional roads or follow on four or more lane divided roads. When two pilot cars are required, one shall precede and one shall follow the piloted load or vehicle. The permit may require additional pilot cars." Consistent with the FAQ grid row "Greater than 12'-0" but less than 13'-6"", which carries exactly two civilian marks (the divided-rear and undivided-front cells) and the CSP "**" footnote.
rev. · read
Questions
How much is an oversize permit in Connecticut?
The single-trip base is $30, before the dimension bands, the overweight component and the transaction charge. The base alone is rarely what is paid.
When does Connecticut require a pilot car?
The first width trigger is over 12'.
What is a superload in Connecticut?
Connecticut's published gross-weight superload line is over 200,000 lb. It is not 80,000 lb; that is the federal legal gross limit, not a superload threshold.