Transport of oversized loads - exemption authorisation
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# Transport of oversized loads - exemption authorisation

## Summary

For journeys where loads with excess width, height or length are to be transported, you require a special authorisation.
## Responsible Department

KVR
## Required Documents

* Fully completed application form

## Prerequisites

* Munich is the registered office of the company or branch office or
* Munich is the place of departure (loading) of the journey requiring authorisation.

## Please Note

Overwidth:

* if the vehicle and load together are more than 2.55 metres wide

Excess height:

* if the vehicle and load together are more than 4 metres high

Excess length:

* if the vehicle and load together are over 20.75 metres long
* if the load protrudes more than 0.5 metres to the front
* if the load protrudes more than 1.5 metres to the rear (or more than 3 metres for distances of less than 100 kilometres)

**Notes**

* We will check whether the route you have applied for is passable with the specified transport dimensions.
* If necessary, we will impose conditions to secure the transport or to protect other road users. Please also refer to the Internet information provided by the Munich traffic police.
* The transport company is obliged to check the route immediately before starting the transport. If a temporary stopping ban is required on parked-up sections of road in the city area, please refer to the information on the Internet under "Requesting a temporary stopping ban".
* If the load protrudes more than 1 metre to the rear, it must be marked.

## Fee Range

The fees are calculated according to a standardised nationwide formula. You can find more information on this under " Forms and links" .

## Processing Time

About two weeks

## Legal Basis

Road traffic regulations (§22 paragraph 2 and §46 paragraph 1 no. 5 and no. 1 StVO)

## Questions and Answers

 
### What requirements apply to branch offices?

 

This must be entered in the commercial, co-operative or partnership register. A branch office is a physically separate part of the company that participates independently in legal transactions as an organisational unit and where employees work partly dependent on the main branch and partly independently of it.  


   
## Further Links

* [Traffic regulations](https://stadt.muenchen.de/infos/verkehrsanordnungen.html)
* [General Data Protection Regulation](https://stadt.muenchen.de/infos/dsgvo-datenschutzgrundverordnung.html)
* [Application for exemption authorisation for oversized loads](https://stadt.muenchen.de/dms/Home/Stadtverwaltung/Kreisverwaltungsreferat/fachspezifisch/HA-III/Dokumente/Sonder---Schwertransporte/antrag_schwertransport.pdf)
* [Police Bavaria](https://www.polizei.bayern.de/muenchen/verkehr/studien/index.html/14778)
* [Apply online (VEMAGS)](https://applikation.vemags.de/vemags_ui/loginFrame.jsf)

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