Vehicle permit fees would send money to Oklahoma’s road fund

Oklahoma’s Department of Transportation would collect the listed permit fees and put specified shares into the Rebuilding Oklahoma Access and Driver Safety Fund, Oklahoma’s road fund. The fee schedule would cover oversized and overweight loads, including utility poles and portable buildings. Separate fees would also apply to certain overload permits and machinery moves. The general minimum fee would be $55, plus $15 for each thousand pounds over the legal load limit. Of those charges, $15 and $5, respectively, would go to the road fund. Listed annual fees would include $5,440 for a specific vehicle carrying loads that cannot reasonably be taken apart, $5,270 for an electric utility’s pole-moving fleet, and $660 for a portable-building mover. The road fund would receive $1,440, $1,270, and $160, respectively, from those annual fees. A special trip permit for covered wide manufactured items would cost $715, with $215 going to the road fund. This fee would be in addition to general permit charges. The proposal named November 1, 2026, as its effective date. It was vetoed on May 12, 2026, and the action history shows no override.

Oklahoma’s Department of Transportation would be allowed to increase oversized and overweight vehicle permit fees set in its agency rules. The authority would cover permit fees in agency rules, including permits for extra-tall trailers and longer vehicle combinations. The department would have to calculate adjustments using a cost-of-living formula through 2024. The difference between adjusted fees and fees at the proposed effective date would go to the Rebuilding Oklahoma Access and Driver Safety Fund, Oklahoma’s road fund. This authority would have started November 1, 2026, if the proposal had become law.

Oklahoma would leave the listed vehicle permit deposits out of the calculation used to reach its road fund’s yearly funding target. The exclusion would cover deposits from the agency-rule fee adjustments and the seven vehicle permit laws listed in the proposal. The $610 million target would cover other funding sources, with the listed permit deposits outside that calculation. The target could be reduced when an official state revenue shortfall leads to cuts in state agency funding. The target covers fiscal years beginning July 1, 2025, and each year thereafter. The proposed exclusion would have taken effect November 1, 2026.