New York oversize permit office
New York State Department of Transportation, Central Permit Office - Special Hauling. Call (518) 485-2999 or (888) 783-1685 (Option 2 - Spec. Hauling), 7:30am to 4:10pm Monday through Friday excluding State Holidays Eastern time.
From New York'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 HOOCS, through an authorized permit service, or by mail on form PERM 39; permit numbers are not given out by phone.
- Single trip fee
- Type 1 - Single Trip Permit: Permit Fee: $40.00; Amendment Fee: $10.00Source
- Legal without a permit
- Width 8 feet 6 inches (8 feet on State Highways except on highways with minimum pavement width of 10 feet; not in New York City) · Height 13 feet 6 inches · Length 53 feet single trailer on Qualifying or Access Highways (48 feet on other State Highways); 65 feet combination on State Highways · Weight 80,000 poundsSource 1Source 2
- Superloads
- A load is a Superload (Type 1S permit) when it is over 16'0" wide, 15'11" high, 160'0" long, or 200,000 pounds gross; it needs police escorts and a bond.Source
When you can move
- Daylight
- Permits allow travel from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset only.Source
- At night
- No night moves unless the permit says so; night travel may be allowed on request in Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Putnam, Orange, Nassau and Suffolk counties.
- Weekends
- No travel on Saturdays or Sundays, except loads up to 12 ft wide and 85 ft long that keep up with traffic may move until noon Saturday.
- Holidays
- New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day. No oversize travel on the holiday or from noon the weekday before it; the 2026 calendar keeps loads off until half an hour before sunrise on the next travel day. Mobile/modular homes over 14 ft wide also may not move on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lincoln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday and Columbus Day. Next datesSource
- Rush-hour curfews
- 7 in New York, such as Statewide (loads 100 ft long or more): 7-9 a.m. and 4-6 p.m. All of them