In 2011, a Putzmeister 70Z-Meter concrete pumper truck needed to navigate Georgia highways on its way to Japan. The 70Z, so named because its pumper, affixed to a Kenworth truck, stretches roughly 230 ...

A few panels last month during the Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association‘s annual transport symposium looked at the long decades of slow progress toward some semblance of state-to-state ...

Of the many headaches that can accompany heavy and oversize hauling, one of the biggest involves permits — their many details, as well as state-to-state variances. Consequently, operators’ horror ...

A few minutes online and $10 are all it takes to get a permit to drive an oversize truck across Washington state. Drivers obtain more than 130,000 of the permits every year, many of them through the ...