Forms and permits

Exceptional load transport

Forms and permits

Requirements and issuance of exceptional transport permits in Croatia

Categories:

Exceptional load vehicles are divided into five categories (which are outside the normal total mass/weights, dimensions and axle loads usually allowed).

Exceptional Transport Category I

is a transport by a vehicle, having either no load or an indivisible load, not exceeding gross 44 tons on up to 5 axles, or gross 48 tons on a minimum of 6 axles, and/or 3 m width and/or 4.2 m height and/or 23 m length, within allowed axle loads or axle loads designated by traffic signs.

Exceptional transport Category II

is a transport by a vehicle, having either no load or an indivisible load, exceeding 44 or 48 gross tons but not exceeding 60 gross tons; and/or more than 3 m but not more than 3.5 m of overall width and/or more than 4.2 m but not exceeding 4.5 m height, and/or more than 23 m but not exceeding 30 m length, and/or exceeding axle load by up to 20% over legally permitted or designated by traffic signs.

Exceptional transport Category III

is a transport by a vehicle, having either no load or an indivisible load, exceeding the limits of permitted total mass and/or dimensions and/or axle loads, for exceptional transport of Category II.

Exceptional transport Category IV

is a transport by vehicles without load, registered for road transport, whose total mass exceeds the legal permitted dimensions and/or overall permitted mass, and/or axle loads, that is vehicles due to whose total mass permitted axle loads are exceeded (mobile cranes, engineering plants etc.).

Exceptional transport Category V

is a transport by unladen vehicles, when the vehicle exceeds allowed dimensions for Category I of exceptional transport, or exceeds the dimensions designated by a traffic sign (agricultural machinery).
Permits:

One-off permit is issued for each single exceptional load transport of vehicles in Categories I, II, III or IV, and is valid for 30 days after the date of issuance.

Depending on characteristics of a vehicle and the load, the permit may be issued for exceptional load movement in a convoy of vehicles including a maximum of 3 vehicles or 3 groups of vehicles.

Likewise, the permit may be issued for a vehicle procession by vehicle categories II and III, given the advance route, loads and number of each single transport within an exceptional transport procession.

Annual permit is issued to a haulier for exceptional transports in categories I, IV and V, if those transports exceed dimensions, overall weight/mass and axle loads determined for Category I of exceptional load transport. 

Annual permit will remain valid for 365 days and shall provide vehicle registration plates of the vehicles used to carry out the exceptional load transport.