(A) A vehicle, including any load thereon, shall not exceed a height of 13 feet six inches, but the owner or owners of such vehicles shall be responsible for damage to any bridge or highway structure and to the municipality for any damage to traffic control devices or other highway structures where such bridges, devices or structures have a vehicle clearance of less than 13 feet six inches.
(B) A motor vehicle, including any load thereon, shall not exceed a length of 40 feet extreme overall dimension, inclusive of front and rear bumpers.
(C) Except as hereinafter provided, a combination of vehicles coupled together shall not consist of more than two units, and no such combination of vehicles, including any load thereon, shall have an overall length, inclusive of front and rear bumpers, in excess of 55 feet, except as provided in W. Va. Code 17C-17-11b, and except as otherwise provided in respect to the use of a pole trailer as authorized in W. Va. Code 17C-17-5; provided, that the limitation that a combination of vehicles coupled together shall not consist of more than two units shall not apply to a combination of vehicles coupled together by a saddle mount device used to transport motor vehicles in a drive-away service when no more than three saddle mounts are used; provided, however, that equipment used in such combination meets the requirements of the safety regulations of the United States Department of Transportation and shall not exceed an overall length of more than 65 feet.
(D) The length limitations for truck tractor-semitrailer combinations and truck tractor- semitrailer-trailer combinations operating on the national system of interstate and defense highways and those classes of qualifying federal-aid primary system highways so designated by the United States Secretary of Transportation, and those highways providing reasonable access to and from terminals, facilities for food, fuel, repairs and rest, and points of loading and unloading for household goods carriers from such highways, and further, as to other highways so designated by the state’s Commissioner of Highways, shall be as follows: the maximum length of a semitrailer unit operating in a truck tractor-semitrailer combination shall not exceed 48 feet in length, except where semi-trailers have an axle spacing of not more than 37 feet between the rear axle of the truck tractor and the front axle of the semitrailer, such semitrailer shall be allowed to be not more than 53 feet in length and the maximum length of any semitrailer or trailer operating in a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer combination shall not exceed 28.5 feet in length and in no event shall any combinations exceed three units, including the truck tractor; provided, that nothing herein contained shall impose an overall length limitation as to commercial motor vehicles operating in truck tractor-semitrailer or truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer combinations.
(W. Va. Code 17C-17-4)
(E) The total outside width, exclusive of safety equipment authorized by the United States Department of Transportation, of any vehicle or the load thereon shall not exceed 96 inches, except as otherwise provided in W. Va. Code Article 17C-17; provided, that any vehicle with a total outside width of 102 inches, exclusive of safety equipment authorized by the United States Department of Transportation, may be operated on any street or highway designated by the United States Department of Transportation or the Commissioner of the Department of Highways or on any street or highway having a minimum lane width of ten feet.
(F) Motor buses with a total outside width of 102 inches, excluding safety equipment authorized by the United States Department of Transportation, may operate on any street or highway.
(W. Va. Code 17C-17-2)
(Prior Code, § 347.03)