Pennsylvania Code › Title 67 - TRANSPORTATION › Part I - Department of Transportation › Subpart A - Vehicle Code Provisions › Article VII - Vehicle Characteristics › Chapter 187 - MOVEMENT OF SPECIAL VEHICLES UPON STATE HIGHWAYS › Section 187.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Department
-The Department of
						Transportation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Freeway
-A limited access highway to
						which the only means of ingress and egress is by interchange ramps.
Highway
-The entire width between the
						boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open
						to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. The term includes a
						roadway open to the use of the public for vehicular travel on grounds of a
						college or university or public or private school or public or historical
						park.
Implement of husbandry
-A vehicle
						designed or adapted and determined by the Department to be used exclusively for
						agricultural operations and only incidentally operated or moved upon
						highways.
Overwidth
-The width of any vehicle
						including the permissible load or loads carried thereon excluding mirrors or
						sunshades, which exceeds either the general eight foot width limit or the
						special vehicle width limits specified in section 4921 of the act.
Permit
-A special hauling permit issued
						by the Department pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 49, Subchapter D of the
						Vehicle Code, for the movement of an overlength, overwidth, overheight or
						overweight vehicle, or combination of vehicles, including the nondivisible load
						thereon, on State highways other than the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Permit office
-Any of the various
						engineering or maintenance district offices of the Department.
Special mobile equipment
-Vehicles not
						designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and
						only incidentally operated or moved over a highway, including but not limited
						to: ditch digging apparatus, well boring apparatus; earth moving and road
						construction and maintenance machinery, such as asphalt spreaders, bituminous
						mixers, bucket loaders, snowplows, ditchers, graders, finishing machines, road
						rollers, scarifiers, earthmoving carryalls, scrapers, power shovels and
						draglines; and self-propelled cranes and tractors, other than truck tractors.
						The term does not include house trailers, dump trucks; truck-mounted transit
						mixers, cranes or shovels; or other vehicles designed for the transportation of
						persons or property to which machinery has been attached.
Special vehicle
-An implement of
						husbandry wider than eight feet but not exceeding 174 inches in width; a
						vehicle loaded with vegetable produce or forage crops wider than eight feet but
						not exceeding 120 inches in width; or special mobile equipment wider than eight
						feet but not exceeding 110 inches in width.
Sunrise
-The time designated by the
						National Weather Bureau at which the sun can first be seen on the
						horizon.
Sunset
-The time designated by the
						National Weather Bureau at which the sun can last be seen on the
						horizon.
Vehicle
-Every device which is or may be
						moved or drawn upon a highway, except devices used exclusively upon rails or
						tracks.