Mississippi pilot car regulations
Certification: not required. Mississippi's 2026 MDOT permit manual sets no certification for escort drivers. It only says what the escort vehicle must carry. Very large loads can also need police (blue light) escorts.
From Mississippi's own rules and pages, checked 2026-10-24. Rules change: the state's page is the last word.
- Escort vehicle
- One motor vehicle with an amber light, two warning flags and an OVERSIZE LOAD or WIDE LOAD sign. The manual sets no size limit for it.Source
- Sign
- Oversize Load or Wide Load sign mounted on top of the vehicle, and/or on the front for the lead escort and the rear for the following escort; an escort that switches between lead and following needs signs front and rear. Sign is 84 inches by 18 inches, with 'OVERSIZE LOAD' or 'WIDE LOAD' in black letters 10 inches high with a 1 5/8 inch brushstroke, on a yellow or orange background.
- Lights
- A flashing or revolving amber light.
- Flags
- Two warning flags mounted on the vehicle. A warning flag is a red flag 18 inches square.
- Height pole
- MDOT may require escorts with a height pole as a permit condition (for example on some superloads); no fixed height threshold for civilian height-pole escorts is stated in the manual.
- Other equipment
- Two-way communication is required between the escort(s) and the towing vehicle.