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Florida DOT excess size & weight bonds.
From $100.
An oversize or overweight load on a Florida highway needs an FDOT permit, and Rule 14-26.007, F.A.C. makes the permittee carry either liability insurance or a bond made payable to the State of Florida, in $100,000 per person and $200,000 per accident or occurrence. Pricing is 1% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
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Three steps. One sitting.
A blanket permit is worth nothing if the liability filing is not on file, and loads do not wait. Here is the whole process:
Apply online
Your company details, the bond amount, the term, and the effective date — that is the entire application. No financials, no credit section.
Issued
The application collects no credit information and most approve on the spot, issuing right after payment. Larger amounts may get a brief underwriter look.
File with FDOT
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the Department’s Overweight/Overdimensional Permit Office alongside your permit application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the excess size and weight bond actually guarantees
Florida caps the size and weight of vehicles that may use its highways. Fla. Stat. §316.550 lets the Department of Transportation issue permits for loads that exceed those limits, and the Department implements that authority through Rule Chapter 14-26, F.A.C. — safety regulations and permit fees for overweight and overdimensional vehicles. Commercial, private and public motorists all need the right instrument before the trip starts: a blanket permit, a ten-day trip permit, a three-month route permit, and so on.
The bond comes from the liability rule. Rule 14-26.007, Liability of Permittee, requires the permittee to hold blameless, harmless and indemnify the State of Florida, Department of Transportation, against claims arising from the issuance of the permit or the operation of the vehicle — and to carry either insurance in the amount of $100,000 per person and $200,000 per accident or occurrence for property damage, or a bond in the amount of $100,000 per person and $200,000 per accident or occurrence made payable to State of Florida. The rule’s authority is §§316.550 and 334.044(2); the law implemented is §§316.535, 316.550 and 316.560. Commercial motor vehicle operators separately meet the minimum coverage required by §627.7415.
It backs the public road, not your truck. If an oversize or overweight movement damages a bridge, a signal, a sign or a roadway — or injures a third party in a way the permit obligations cover — the State can look to the bond, and if the surety pays, you repay the surety. Blanket permits run on an annual cycle, so the bond is written to match; we track the expiry and send notices 60 and 30 days out. Separate penalties for moving without a valid permit sit in Rule 14-26.015.
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One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields. The application collects no credit information; enter the amount your permit class requires and your exact price is set at application.
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Premiums from $100, no credit section, e-signed bond ready to file with FDOT. Free until issued.