Fill in the load and at least one state, then press Calculate permits. Nothing is stored and no account is needed.
- 120,000 lb · 12'6" wide · 14'6" high · 85 ft · 8 axles, interstate.
- Seven states — TX, AR, TN, KY, OH, PA, NY — with the miles inside each.
- Fills the form and prices it, so you can see the output before typing anything.
What comes back
Every fee line is resolved from a statute or a published fee schedule as of today’s date, and each state’s sources are listed with their revision dates. Where two official sources disagree by more than the immaterial threshold, the state is flagged for manual review instead of a figure being picked; where they disagree by less, the higher figure is quoted and the disagreement is shown.
- One table with every state on the lane — oversize, overweight, base and fees, escorts, subtotal and status, with a totals row.
- The statute behind each line, effective-dated, per state.
- Named gaps. A state we hold no schedule for comes back named and unpriced, never as $0, and the lane total refuses rather than quietly excluding it.
- Escort counts each state requires — priced from your own pilot-car rate if you give one, and never added to the permit total.
What this total never includes (5)
- Line haul, fuel and margin. This is a permit-fee calculator, not a freight rate. Nothing here prices moving the load.
- Pilot car / escort cost. No escort money is ever inside the permit total. We hold no pilot-car rates of our own and will not invent one — enter YOUR pilot-car rate on this page and we apply it to the escort counts each state requires, as its own separate figure. On a long lane one escort can cost more than every permit on this page combined.
- Police escorts, route surveys and bridge analysis. Several states impose these at the permitting office’s discretion with no published price.
- Permits from a second issuing authority. A toll, bridge or city authority can require its own permit inside a state we do price. Where we know of one, the state’s notes name it.
- Superload pricing. Above a state’s superload threshold there is no published fee — the agency prices it after an engineering review.
What this prices, and where the number stops
Three facts are the whole boundary: what is priced here, what is deliberately left out, and what it costs you.
The single-trip oversize and overweight permit each state charges, across the 32 states the engine holds a cited fee schedule for, plus the escort COUNT each state's own rules produce for your load. Every fee line names the statute or fee schedule it came from and that document's revision date.
STATE PERMIT FEES ONLY: no line haul, no fuel, no margin. It also excludes the cost of any pilot car a state requires — we hold no pilot-car rates, so enter your own and we apply it as a separate figure, never inside the permit total. On a long lane one escort can cost more than every permit below combined.
Nothing, and no account. Every input is in the request and every fee is compiled in, so the page renders and the endpoint answers with the database unreachable — and neither calls anything billable.
Three steps, in order
Describe the load
Gross weight is what every state prices the overweight permit from. Width, height and overall length decide the oversize fee band and the escort rules. Leave one blank and the states that need it say so rather than guessing.
Type the miles inside each state
These are your miles, not ours — the per-state figures your PC*Miler or ProMiles run already produced for the permit application. We do not route the lane and never imply that we did.
Read the table, not just the total
Every state gets a row: oversize, overweight, base and fees, escorts, subtotal and status, with a totals row under it. A state flagged for manual review shows the unsettled sentence that caused it, and every citation is one click away.
Two things a free permit calculator usually gets wrong
A gap is named, never priced at $0
Every US state and DC can be added to a lane, including the ones we hold no schedule for. Hiding them would make "we do not have this state's fee schedule" look like "this state charges nothing", and a lane quietly missing a state is the most misleading output this tool could produce.
So an uncovered state comes back named and unpriced, and the headline figure relabels itself a partial rather than passing off an incomplete sum as a lane total.
- States with a cited fee schedule
- 32
- States and districts the form offers
- 51
- An uncovered state priced at $0
- Never
Escort cost is never inside the permit total
States set the escort REQUIREMENT; pilot cars are private vendors and no state publishes a rate for one. So the requirement is reported as a count from each state's own rules, and money only ever attaches to it from a rate you supply.
A figure derived from your rate is drawn differently from a cited one — dashed outline, its own your rate tag — because it is your arithmetic and we did not source it. Find a certified escort operator for the lane →
- Escort money inside the permit total
- $0.00
- Pilot-car rates we hold of our own
- None
- Rate fields you can supply
- 4
Questions
Is this what the move will cost?
No — it prices the single-trip permit fee each state charges, and nothing else. 5 things that cost real money sit outside it: line haul, fuel and margin; pilot car / escort cost; police escorts, route surveys and bridge analysis; permits from a second issuing authority; superload pricing. Each one is listed beside the total with the reason it is out.
Why does it ask for the miles inside each state instead of working them out?
Because several states price the overweight permit on the miles travelled inside that state, and this tool does not route your lane. Splitting a lane total by each state's share of a straight line is the obvious shortcut and we measured it: per-state error ran from −100% — a state missed altogether — to +780%, and on one Houston-to-Buffalo lane it invented a $285 Louisiana permit for a state the route never enters. The figures you type are the ones that go on the permit application, which makes them the miles the state actually bills.
What happens to a state you hold no fee schedule for?
It comes back named and unpriced — never as $0 — and the figure at the top stops calling itself a lane total, labels itself a partial and says how many states were priced and how many were not. We hold a cited schedule for 32 of the 51 states and districts the form offers. Leaving a state silently out of the sum would be the single most misleading thing this tool could do.
Two official sources give different fees. Which one do you use?
Where they disagree by $50 or less we quote the HIGHER figure, price the lane and list the disagreement so you can see exactly which number moved and why. Where the gap is bigger than that, nothing is picked: the state is flagged for manual review with both readings and both citations, because choosing between two official documents is not ours to do.
Does the total include the pilot cars a state requires?
No, and it never will — no escort money is inside the permit total, however it is priced. The calculator reports the escort COUNT each state's own rules produce for your load. Cost is a separate figure and only appears if you enter your own pilot-car rate: we hold no pilot-car rates and will not invent one, because pilot cars are private vendors and your negotiated rate beats any range we could make up.
Can I apply for the permit here?
No. This prices the single-trip permit each state charges so you can quote the move; the application itself goes to each state's own permitting office, and that office is also who decides the route, the escorts and the timing on the day. Where we know a state has more than one issuing authority — a toll road, a bridge authority, a city — that state's notes say so.