Pole and utility vehicles/trailers – Hawaii

For public utilities maintenance and service vehicles, the total combined length of the public utility maintenance and service vehicle must not exceed 65 feet in length.

In addition, the limitations on vehicle length contained in HRS § 291-34 do not apply to vehicles transporting pipe, poles, timbers, reinforcing steel, structural steel, or other objects of a structural nature that cannot be readily dismembered.

Clearance lamps

When transported by night every vehicle must be equipped with enough clearance lamps upon the extreme ends of any projecting load to clearly mark the dimensions of the load.

Key definitions

A “pole trailer” means every vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach or pole, or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing vehicle, and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads such as poles, pipes, or structural members capable, generally, of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connections.