Pole and utility vehicles/trailers – Minnesota

Combination length limits exception

Vehicle length limits do not apply when vehicle combinations transport:

• Telephone poles, electric light and power poles, piling, or pole-length pulpwood; or
• Pipe or other objects by a public utility when required for emergency or repair of public service facilities or when operated under special permits.

Clearance markers and lamps 

Combinations of vehicles must be equipped with sufficient clearance markers, or lamps for night transportation, on both sides and upon the extreme ends of a projecting load to clearly mark the dimensions of the load.

Tow-bar exemption

The connection between any two vehicles transporting poles, pipe, machinery or other objects of structural nature which cannot readily be dismembered are exempt from the 15-foot tow-bar requirement.