Arkansas oversize permit office
Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT), Arkansas Highway Police - Oversize and Overweight Permit Section. Call (501) 569-2381, Permits by telephone: Monday – Friday 6:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.; permits in person (10324 Interstate 30, Little Rock): Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Closed Saturday, Sunday and all legal state holidays. Central time.
From Arkansas'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 in ARPARS, call (501) 569-2381, write, or go in person to the permit office in Little Rock.
- ahppermit@ardot.gov
- Single trip fee
- The fee for a permit to move an over dimensional vehicle or load is seventeen dollars ($17). Overweight: $17 per permit plus, for each ton or fraction over the lawful weight, $8.00 (100 miles or less) up to $16.00 (251 miles or more).Source
- Legal without a permit
- Width 8 feet, 6 inches (8 feet for manufactured homes) · Height 14 feet · Length Determined by trailer length as required by law: a semitrailer or trailer up to 53 feet and six inches (53'6") has no overall length restriction · Weight 80,000 pounds gross weight of vehicle(s) and cargo on 5 or more axles; must meet the Federal bridge formula for 80,000 poundsSource
- Superloads
- Arkansas calls a load a super load if it weighs 180,000 pounds or more, is more than 16 feet 6 inches wide, is 100 feet or more long, or is 15 feet 6 inches or more high.Source
When you can move
- Daylight
- Oversize permits are for daylight hours only, as set by the National Weather Service (NOAA) sunrise and sunset.Source
- At night
- Only loads within legal width and height and no longer than 90 ft may run 24/7; overweight-only loads within legal size may run at night on selected highways.
- Weekends
- Oversize loads may move on Saturday and Sunday unless it is a restricted holiday; when one of those holidays falls on a Monday or Friday, the weekend next to it is closed too.
- Holidays
- New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day. No moves on the day the holiday is observed; if it is observed on a Friday or Monday, no moves on the weekend that touches it. Next datesSource
- Rush-hour curfews
- 1 in Arkansas, such as Greater Little Rock: I-30 mile markers 138-143, I-40 mile markers 151-155, all of I-630: 7-9 a.m. and 4-6 p.m. (no days limit printed). All of them