An oversized transport is required when your load exceeds the legally permissible standard dimensions – typically from more than 2.55 m width, 4 m height or, depending on the vehicle combination, 16.5 to 18.75 m overall length. Such over-dimension transports require a permit: without a road-traffic authorisation, a checked route and, where applicable, escort vehicles, not a metre may be driven. Speed Logistics takes over exactly this complete package.
Decisive for your scheduling is the lead time: from application to the granted permit, depending on route and federal states, usually one to three weeks pass. We therefore start the procedure immediately after your release and plan the trip so that permit conditions, night-run windows and your desired deadline fit together.
When is a transport an oversized transport?
Decisive are the limits of standard transport: 2.55 m width (2.60 m for refrigerated bodies), 4 m height and, depending on the combination, 16.5 to 18.75 m length. Anything above is a permit-requiring oversized transport. If overweight above 40 t is added, the rules of heavy haulage apply; where needed we combine both in one procedure so that you do not have to coordinate two parallel applications and two service providers.
Typical over-dimension loads
Among the most frequent goods are roof trusses and steel-construction structures, vessels, silos and apparatus from plant engineering, precast concrete elements for building and civil engineering, agricultural and construction machines with attachments as well as extra-long components such as masts, girders or pipeline segments. Each of these loads brings its own challenges: lateral overhang with trusses, tipping risk with tall silos, sensitive surfaces with precast elements. We select equipment and securing means accordingly and align the loading with your plant or construction site.
Permit, route checking and escort
- Authorisation procedure: application per federal state and for every transit country along the route
- Route checking with GIS support: comparison of the planned route with bridge heights, clearance widths, roundabouts and construction sites before application
- BF3/BF4 escort vehicles: depending on the official condition, including a variable message sign system; police escort we coordinate where it is required
- Time-window management: many over-dimension routes are only cleared at night or outside peak traffic times
Equipment and load securing
Depending on the load we deploy low-loaders, semi low-loaders, flatbed or telescopic trailers that adapt in length to the load. Before the trip we clarify the centre-of-gravity position, lashing points and the crane or forklift situation at the loading and unloading site. The load securing is designed for the over-dimension and documented – precisely for wide or tall goods the key to a complaint-free inspection en route. Where needed, a banksman accompanies the critical passages, for example narrow village throughways or the last mile to the construction site.
Process and international oversized transports
You send us the dimensions, weight and the loading points; we check feasibility and route and prepare a fixed-price offer – you receive the first response within a few hours. Tell us also your desired and excluded dates, for example company holidays or crane availabilities, so that the permit windows are applied for accordingly. For cross-border over-dimension transports we coordinate the permits of all transit countries and, for non-EU destinations such as Türkiye or Central Asia, additionally handle the complete customs clearance. So the oversized transport remains, across borders too, a project with a single person responsible.