Factory components, construction materials, and other large items are frequently delivered across the country via trucks. These items may not be safe to ship on standard trucks, so they will have to be delivered by oversized shipping companies.
Items that exceed a certain size and/or weight are classified as oversized, and can only be transported by oversized shipping companies with permits. The criteria for classifying an item as oversized varies across the country, but most states classify items as oversized when the combined dimensions of the item and the truck transporting it exceed:
A height of 13’6”
A width of 8’6”
A length of 48’
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