Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Transportation
Title R909 - Motor Carrier
Rule R909-2 - Utah Size and Weight Rule
Section R909-2-34 - Special Mobile Equipment
Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 909-2-34
Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1) Special mobile equipment or SME refers to vehicles:
(a) not designed or used primarily for the
transportation of persons or property;
(b) not designed to operate in traffic;
and
(c) only incidentally operated
or moved over the highways.
(2) Special mobile equipment exempt from registration includes:
(a) farm tractors;
and
(b) offroad motorized
construction or maintenance equipment including backhoes, bulldozers,
compactors, graders, loaders, road rollers, tractors, trenchers, and ditch
digging apparatus.
(3) Heavy equipment designed for off-highway uses such as scrapers, loaders, off highway cranes, and rock trucks, but not tracked vehicles may be issued single trip permits to operate under their own power, on approved routes other than interstate highways, as follows:
(a) the
distance traveled must not generally exceed 20 miles;
(b) only daylight operations are authorized,
and oversize restrictions apply;
(c) weights must comply with the bridge
formula for non-divisible loads;
(d) single axles equipped with single tires
must not be authorized to exceed 40,000 pounds;
(e) a minimum of one pilot escort vehicle is
required; and
(f) special mobile
equipment must be routed by the division.
(4) Special mobile equipment or SME affidavit. Persons who operate or cause to operate an SME exempt from registration must submit a completed special mobile equipment affidavit to the division.
(a) To be deemed complete, an
affidavit must be on the form provided by the division and required fields
filled in. Affidavits will be available at ports of entry. Affidavits must be
turned into a port of entry.
(b)
Special mobile equipment exempt from registration must carry a copy of the
approved affidavit in the vehicle at all times.
(c) Vehicles that are not special mobile
equipment must register with the Utah State Tax Commission before operating the
vehicle on a public highway.
(d)
Upon receipt of a denial of special mobile equipment, if the owner or operator
wishes to appeal the decision of the division, a petition may be filed with the
department, within 30 days.
(i) A response to
an appeal from the department will be made in writing within 30
days.
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