Are you reading the specs including the mirrors? I don't think that mirrors
count in the width measurement.
In Indiana it is 102" also. I'm pretty sure that is nationwide. 10 tonners
are definitely overwidth. But the military doesn't need permits, so what do
they care? Also if you run an overwidth semi or heavy truck you have to
have a CDL even if you are a farmer. Now someone should have told a farmer
I saw last year this. He decided to carry a combine head down the road
cross wise on this flatbed truck. I think it was pretty close to 20 feet
wide and I doubt that he had a permit!
Dave
Thomas Gould wrote:
> It was with great excitement and anticipation, that I was looking
> forward to the purchase of a "new" M series military cargo truck.
>
> My bubble was popped upon being advised that any vehicle over 96"
> wide... is overwidth and requires a permit any time you move it.
>
> Well, I immediately came to the conclusion that this sucks and looked in
> one of my specification books, only to find that more than HALF of the
> most common cargo trucks, incuding the 2-1/2T M35A2 are legally well
> overwidth and illegal without getting a permit each time I would want to
> drive it.
>
> I'm in New York and the polite State Police advised me, very clearly,
> that 96" maximum width was pretty well standard across the U.S.
>
> Somebody please comment on this major f___ upset.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
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