New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 18 - TRANSPORTATION AND HIGHWAYS
Chapter 19 - MOTOR VEHICLE PROCEDURES, LICENSES, PERMITS
Part 8 - SIZE AND WEIGHT OF VEHICLES AND LOADS
Section 18.19.8.80 - ESCORTS - PURPOSE AND REQUIREMENT

A. The purpose of an escort vehicle is to enhance the safety of moving an oversize vehicle or load over the highways, to reduce delays and inconveniences to the normal flow of traffic and to alert the motoring public to the presence or approach of an oversize vehicle or load.

B. The DOT, after evaluating the dimensions of a vehicle, combination or load and the route to be traveled, may require that one or more escort vehicles accompany the movement or part of the movement or may require that police escorts accompany the movement.