Ohio oversize permit office
Ohio Department of Transportation, Special Hauling Permits Office. Call 614-351-2300 Eastern time.
From Ohio's own pages, checked 2026-10-24. Fees and rules change: the state's page is the last word.
- Apply online
- Ohio Hauling Permit System (OHPS)Source
- How to get one
- Create or claim an account and apply online in the Ohio Hauling Permit System; county, township, city and Ohio Turnpike roads need their own permits.
- Single trip fee
- Basic processing charge of twenty dollars plus surcharge units; one-way oversize surcharge $55 outbound ($35 return) for width up to 14 ft and/or height up to 14 ft 6 in, $125 outbound ($65 return) above that; overweight up to 120,000 lb $125 outbound ($65 return), over 120,000 lb adds four cents per ton over 60 tons per mile traveled.Source
When you can move
- Daylight
- Oversize loads move in daylight only, Sunday through Saturday: half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset. Overweight-only loads of legal size have no hour or day limits.Source
- At night
- No night moves (sunset to sunrise) unless the permit says otherwise.
- Weekends
- Loads wider than 12 ft may not move from 3 p.m. Saturday or 3 p.m. Sunday until half an hour before sunrise the next day, and from April 1 to November 30 also not from 3 p.m. Friday until half an hour before sunrise Saturday.
- Holidays
- New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day. No oversize moves from noon the day before until half an hour before sunrise the day after the holiday or holiday weekend. Next datesSource
- Rush-hour curfews
- 1 in Ohio, such as Butler, Clermont, Cuyahoga, Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Geauga, Hamilton, Lake, Licking, Lorain, Lucas, Madison, Mahoning, Medina, Montgomery, Pickaway, Stark, Summit, Union, Warren and Wood Counties (loads wider than 12 ft): Mon-Fri 6:30-9 a.m. and 4:30-6 p.m. All of them