Wisconsin Ag Connection - Fall Harvest Weight Limits Now in Effect

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Fall Harvest Weight Limits Now in Effect
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 09/24/2018

Farmers are being reminded that fall harvest weight limits are now in effect through December 31. Heavy equipment operators should note that state law allows an increase in normal weight limits for trucks hauling crops from the field to their first point of storage.

An overweight truck permit is not required for the transportation of corn, soybeans, potatoes, vegetables or cranberries from the field to initial storage, or from the field to the initial processing point.

Meanwhile, the state's new Implements of Husbandry law allows farm machinery to have a 15 percent increase in weight year-round. But the IOH law does not apply to trucks. Under the law, those trucks with a typical gross weight of between 50,000 and 80,000 pounds are allowed to increase their weights by 15 percent for harvest activities.

This exception does not apply on Class 'B' highways, posted bridges, or highways designated as part of the national system of interstate highways.

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