Overview
Vehicles hauling logs and exceeding regulated dimensions and weights must operate under permits.
These permits include conditions that a vehicle must obey when the dimensions and weights exceed the regulated limits.
Application forms
Regulation summary
The summaries include:
- regulated limits
- equivalent to regulated limits for some configurations
- permitted conditions for log haul configurations allowed to haul dimensions and weights exceeding regulated limits
Standard log truck
- Straight Log Truck
- Standard Log Truck and Tandem Pole Trailer
- Standard Log Truck and Tridem Pole Trailer
- Standard Log Truck and Tandem Semi-Trailer
- Standard Log Truck and Tridem Semi-Trailer
- Tridem Drive Truck and Tandem Pole Trailer
- Tridem Drive Truck and Tridem Pole Trailer
- Tridem Drive Truck and Tridem Semi-Trailer
Single axle jeep logger
7 axle tandem jeep
- Log Truck and 4 Axle Trailer
- Tridem Drive Log Truck and 4 Axle Trailer
- 7 Axle Tandem Jeep Logger
- 7 Axle B-Train
8 axle tandem jeep/B-train
- 8 Axle Tandem Jeep and Tridem Pole Trailer
- 8 Axle Tandem Jeep and Tridem Semi-Trailer
- Tridem B-Train
- 8 Axle B-Train
9 and 10 axle B-train
Quad axle – Semi-trailer
Permit conditions
Dimension and winter weight log haul permit conditions.
Standard log truck
- Straight Truck – Winter Weight
- Tandem Pole Trailer – Winter Weight
- Tandem Pole Trailer – Narrow Track
- Tridem Pole Trailer – Winter Weight
- Tridem Pole Trailer – Narrow Track
- Tandem Semi-Trailer – Winter Weight
- Tandem Semi-Trailer – Narrow Track
- Tridem Semi-Trailer – Winter Weight
- Tridem Semi-Trailer – Narrow Track
- Tridem Drive Truck and Tandem Pole Trailer – Winter Weight
- Tridem Drive Truck and Tandem Pole Trailer – Narrow Track
- Tridem Drive Truck and Tridem Pole Trailer – Wide Track
- Tridem Drive Truck and Tridem Pole Trailer – Narrow Track
- Tridem Drive Truck and Tridem Semi – Wide Track
- Tridem Drive Truck and Tridem Semi-Trailer – Narrow Track
Single axle jeep logger
7 axle tandem jeep and B-train
- Log Truck and 4 Axle Trailer – Winter Weight
- Tridem Drive Log Truck and 4 Axle Trailer – Winter Weight
- 7 Axle Tandem Jeep Logger – Winter Weight
- 7 Axle Jeep Logger – Narrow Track
- 7 Axle B-Train – Winter Weight
8 axle tandem jeep and B-train
- 8 Axle Tandem Jeep and Tridem Pole Trailer – Winter Weight
- 8 Axle Tandem Jeep and Tridem Semi-Trailer – Winter Weight
- 8 Axle B-Train – Winter Weight
- Tridem Drive B-Train – Winter Weight
Configurations requiring approval
- 9 Axle Tandem Drive B-Train – Winter Weight
- 9 Axle Tridem Drive B-Train – Winter Weight
- 9 Axle Equipment Exemption Permit Conditions
- 10 Axle B-Train – Winter Weight
- 10 Axle Equipment Exemption Permit Conditions
- Tridem Drive Quad Axle Semi-Trailer – Winter Weight
- Quad Axle Equipment Exemption Permit Conditions
Log truck safety study
The Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC), performed vehicle dynamic research into common log truck configurations during the Western Log Truck Study between 1992 and 1998.
The main conclusion of this study was that the majority of existing logging trucks failed to meet the minimum criteria for safety performance, when hauling Alberta winter weights.
During 1999 and 2000, FERIC undertook a supplementary project to determine what improvements could be made to bring the safety performances up to the minimum standard.
Based on the results of this study, recommendations for the specifications of logging trucks have been developed, as contained in the Western Log Truck Study – Improvements to Dynamic Stability report.