Indiana Code - Motor Vehicles - Title 9, Section 9-20-5-2

Maximum weight limitations; heavy duty highways

Sec. 2. Whenever the Indiana department of transportation
designates a heavy duty highway, the department shall also fix the
maximum weights of vehicles that may be transported on the
highway. The maximum weights may not exceed the following
limitations:
(1) A vehicle may not have a maximum wheel weight, unladen
or with load, in excess of eight hundred (800) pounds per inch
width of tire, measured between the flanges of the rim, or an
axle weight in excess of twenty-two thousand four hundred
(22,400) pounds.
(2) The total weight concentrated on the roadway surface from
any tandem axle group may not exceed eighteen thousand
(18,000) pounds for each axle of the assembly.
(3) The total gross weight, with load, in pounds of a vehicle or
combination of vehicles may not exceed eighty thousand
(80,000) pounds.

As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.8.

Last modified: May 27, 2006