Motor vehicle and manufactured home combinations - Overall length and width - Limitations on movement.

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A. No combination of a motor vehicle and manufactured home or frame or frames thereof shall have an overall length, inclusive of front and rear bumpers, in excess of seventy (70) feet or a width in excess of eighteen (18) feet while operating on the system of interstate and defense highways. In determining the width of a manufactured home, the overall width shall not exceed the eighteen-foot width limit. Such combination exceeding seventy (70) feet in length or eight and one-half (8 1/2) feet in width must comply with the provisions of Section 14-118 of this title. A front and rear escort shall be required on the interstate and defense highways for vehicles meeting the parameters of this subsection.

B. If any combination of a motor vehicle and manufactured home or frame thereof exceeds seventy (70) feet in overall length or eight and one-half (8 1/2) feet in width, they shall be moved only during daylight hours on the system of interstate and defense highways. The towing vehicle must be at least three-fourths-ton rated capacity with dual wheels.

Added by Laws 1965, c. 248, §§ 1, 2, emerg. eff. June 17, 1965. Amended by Laws 1969, c. 313, § 1, emerg. eff. April 29, 1969; Laws 1970, c. 38, § 1, emerg. eff. Feb. 24, 1970; Laws 1971, c. 258, §§ 1, 2, emerg. eff. June 16, 1971; Laws 1976, c. 85, § 1, emerg. eff. May 3, 1976; Laws 1978, c. 81, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1978; Laws 1980, c. 125, § 1, emerg. eff. April 16, 1980; Laws 1981, c. 118, § 9; Laws 1984, c. 25, § 1, emerg. eff. March 22, 1984; Laws 1984, c. 270, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1984; Laws 1994, c. 127, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Laws 1998, c. 125, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1998; Laws 2019, c. 140, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.


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