Indiana § 9-20-5-2 - Maximum weight limitations; heavy duty highways
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§ 9-20-5-2. Maximum weight limitations; heavy duty highways
Sec. 2. 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.]
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.8.
Source: official Indiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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