Alaska oversize permit office
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Measurement Standards & Commercial Vehicle Compliance - Commercial Vehicle Customer Service Center (State-Wide Oversize Overweight Permitting). Call 907-365-1200 (Alaska toll free: 800-478-7636), Monday - Friday, excluding state holidays, 8:00am - 4:30pm Alaska time.
From Alaska's own pages, checked 2026-10-24. Fees and rules change: the state's page is the last word.
- How to get one
- Apply online at akswoop.com after signing in with a myAlaska login; you can also call, fax or email the permit office.
- swoop@alaska.gov
- Single trip fee
- Single move, oversize only: basic processing charge $40, plus $25 for width in excess of 10' to 16' ($35 in excess of 16') and $25 for height in excess of 16' to 16'6" ($35 in excess of 16'6"). Overweight only: $40 plus $25 at gross weight of 150,000 lbs. or more. Oversize AND overweight: $70 plus the same surcharges.Source
- Legal without a permit
- Width 102 inches · Height 15 feet (17 feet between the Fox Weigh Station and Prudhoe Bay on the Dalton and Elliott Highways) · Length 53 feet cargo-carrying length of a semitrailer or trailer; 75 feet overall for a truck and one cargo-carrying vehicle or a truck tractor and two cargo-carrying vehicles · Weight No single gross cap; maximum gross vehicle weight is set by the Bridge Gross Weight Formulas in 17 AAC 25.013(a)(6) plus axle limitsSource
- Superloads
- Your load is a superload if it is over 150 feet long, over 18 feet wide, over 18 feet high, or weighs 250,000 lbs. or more.Source
- How fast
- Superloads need five business days' notice; superloads that need bridge analysis typically take five working days to process.Source
When you can move
- Daylight
- Over-width and over-17-ft-high loads move in daylight only unless they carry the lights and reflective tape the manual lists for hours of darkness, or the permit says otherwise; the manual does not define daylight.Source
- At night
- Night moves are allowed with the required clearance lights, reflective tape and light bars; it does not lift peak-hour, weekend or holiday limits.
- Weekends
- Weekend limits are set on each permit, which says where and when they apply.
- Holidays
- Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day. No moves for 84 hours from noon the Friday before a Sunday or Monday holiday, or from noon the Thursday before a Friday or Saturday holiday. Next datesSource
- Rush-hour curfews
- 2 in Alaska, such as Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau urban areas: Weekdays 7-8 a.m. and 4:30-6 p.m. (loads over 8 ft 6 in wide, extended-period permit). All of them