Massachusetts Pilot Car Requirements

UNVERIFIED — 130,000 lb is supported by NO reachable source. The MassHighway CMV sheet sets no numeric escort trigger in its Super-loads section, and 700 CMR 7.07 does not carry this number. Retained only so the band is not silently empty. Confirm with the MassDOT Commercial Motor Vehicle Center (508-473-4755) before relying.

Length 115' OR MORE: MA State Police escort plus 2 civilian pilots (front & rear). Source table row verbatim: "Length 115' or more — MA State Police & 2 (Front & Rear)". (MassHighway CMV Information, When Escorts Are Needed.)

Length over 95': front AND rear pilot required. Source table row verbatim: "Length over 95' — 2 (Front & Rear)". (MassHighway CMV Information, When Escorts Are Needed.)

Length over 95': front AND rear pilot required. Source table row verbatim: "Length over 95' — 2 (Front & Rear)". (MassHighway CMV Information, When Escorts Are Needed.)

Length 80'0"–94'11": 1 rear pilot required. Source table row verbatim: "Length of 80' to 94'-11" — 1 Rear" — inclusive at exactly 80'0". (MassHighway CMV Information, When Escorts Are Needed.)

Width over 16': MA State Police escort plus 2 civilian pilots. SCOPE CAVEAT — the only primary text found for this is 700 CMR 7.07, which governs the Turnpike / Metropolitan Highway System ONLY: "an over-size vehicle, with its load, that is wider than 16 feet or longer than 135 feet must be escorted by two motor vehicles of the Massachusetts State Police." Note 135', not 115', on that regime. Confirm the statewide figure with the MassDOT Commercial Motor Vehicle Center (508-473-4755).

Width over 13'6": front AND rear pilot required. Source table row verbatim: "Width over 13'-6" — 2 (Front & Rear)". (MassHighway CMV Information, When Escorts Are Needed.)

Width over 13'6": front AND rear pilot required. Source table row verbatim: "Width over 13'-6" — 2 (Front & Rear)". (MassHighway CMV Information, When Escorts Are Needed.)

Width 12'1"–13'6": 1 rear pilot required. EXCLUSIVE at 12'0" — the source table band is "Width of 12'-1" to 13'-6"", i.e. MassHighway treats 12'0" as the top of the unrestricted band. (MassHighway CMV Information, When Escorts Are Needed.)

UNVERIFIED — 14'11" is supported by NO reachable source. It appears in neither the MassHighway CMV sheet nor 700 CMR 7.07. Retained only so the band is not silently empty. Confirm with the MassDOT Commercial Motor Vehicle Center (508-473-4755) before relying.

Height over 13'9": 1 FRONT pilot required. Source table row verbatim: "Height over 13'-9" (depending on route) — 1 Front". A second (rear) pilot is added over 13'11". (MassHighway CMV Information, When Escorts Are Needed.)

Height over 13'11": front AND rear pilot required. Source table row verbatim: "Height over 13'-11" (depending on route) — 2 (Front & Rear)". (MassHighway CMV Information, When Escorts Are Needed.)

Height over 13'8": a height/route SURVEY is required — NOT a pole. This is now resolved against the primary document, whose table row reads verbatim: "Height over 13'-8" — Height survey". No pole is mentioned anywhere in the MassHighway CMV sheet. The band above it: survey at 13'8", 1 FRONT escort at 13'9", front AND rear at 13'11". This entry stays kinded HEIGHT_POLE so the survey duty still surfaces; read it as "height survey", and confirm with the MassDOT Commercial Motor Vehicle Center (508-473-4755) whether your route also stipulates a pole.

Width 12'–14', length over 80' but NOT EXCEEDING 114', or height over 13'11": daylight only (sunrise to sunset), no movement 3:30–7:00 P.M. Monday through Friday. Over 14' wide and/or over 115' long: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 9:30 A.M.–3:30 P.M. only. General permit window is Monday 12:01 A.M. to Saturday 12:00 noon. NOTE the source itself leaves a 114'–115' gap. INCLUSIVITY UNVERIFIED: the wording is "Vehicles between 12' and 14' wide", so whether a load measuring exactly 12'0" is inside the band could not be established; it is encoded as strictly OVER 12'0". Confirm with the MassDOT Commercial Motor Vehicle Center (508-473-4755) before relying on it at exactly 12'0".

No movement from noon the day before until noon the day after: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day. That is the SOURCE LIST IN FULL — six days. GOOD FRIDAY IS NOT AMONG THEM and was removed 2026-09-14 as unsupported. The document expressly names MLK Day, Evacuation Day, Washington's Birthday, Bunker Hill Day, Columbus Day and Veteran's Day as office-closed-but-travel-UNRESTRICTED. (MassHighway CMV Information.)