PROCEDURE FOR ISSUING AN EXTRAORDINARY TRANSPORT PERMIT FOR TOTAL WEIGHT OF ROAD TRAINS WITH LOAD EXCEEDING 40T AND FOR OVERSIZE LOADS IN TERMS OF LENGTH, WIDTH AND HEIGHT EXCEEDING THE STANDARD LEGAL SIZES 

Applicants requesting a permit for extraordinary transport should submit the documents listed below to the Extraordinary Transport Unit of the Public Enterprise for State Roads:  

1. Completed and signed Application form for an Extraordinary Transport Permit in 2 (two) copies (the Application form can be downloaded from the website of the Public Enterprise for State Roads). 

2. Completed sketch of the appearance, mass, dimensions and distance between axles of the loaded road train, in 3 (three) copies (sketches of a loaded road train can be downloaded from the website of the Public Enterprise for State Roads).

3. Two (2) photocopies of vehicle registration certificates of the towing engine and the trailer(s).

4. Payment slip for the paid stamp duty in the amount of 50.00 (fifty) denars.

5. Specification of the load (length, width, height, and weight)

6. Photograph of the load and of the vehicle which is carrying the load, with the license plate visible.

7. Customs declaration or other proof of sealed load (can be a photograph)

8. Translation of all vehicle registration certificates by an authorized translator with a notarized certification.

9. As for applications for total weight that including the load exceeds 80 tons, the applicant is required to submit a report from an additional analysis of the bridge load capacity. The analysis is carried out at the applicant’s expense and must be submitted in advance (before submitting the application), and the conditions from the Conclusion are included in the Permit.

It is mandatory that all fields (5, 6, 7, and 8, O1, F1, and F2) in the domestic vehicle registration certificates are filled out when submitting the documentation.

The entire procedure must comply with laws and by-law regulations. We emphasize that special attention should be paid to the divisibility of the load in accordance with Article 10 of the Rulebook on Public Roads Protection.

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For any clarifications and/or assistance needed concerning completion of the Application form and/or the sketches, the applicants can contact the Extraordinary Transport Unit of the Public Enterprise for State Roads.

Certified true copies of the Application forms are delivered to the Ministry of Internal Affairs by the Extraordinary Transport Unit of the PESR by 13:00 hrs. each working day. The Extraordinary Transport Unit issues, by 15:30 hrs. each working day, only the permits that are certified and delivered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Following the calculation based on the data provided in the Application for issuance of an Extraordinary Transport Permit, the applicant shall receive copies of the completed general information on the payment slips and shall proceed to make the payment of the specified amount. The applicant shall make payments with separate payment slips for the Extraordinary Transport Permit to the PESR account(s) and to the Budget of the Republic of North Macedonia. The applicant shall, upon making those payments, submit the verified payment slips to the Extraordinary Transport Unit of the PESR. On applicant’s request, the payment can also be made against a pro-forma invoice. Shall the applicant fail to make payment against the pro-forma invoice within 7 (seven) days, the application for issuing an Extraordinary Transport Permit shall be closed as unclaimed.

The amount of the administrative fee to be paid on the account of the Budget of the Republic of North Macedonia shall be in accordance with the tariff no. 19 of the Law on Administrative Fees (“Official Gazette of RM” no. 6/10).

The cost of the Extraordinary Transport Permit shall be computed according to the following: a) Decision on the amounts charged for installing signboards and billboards in a state road reserve, connection of an access road to a state road, positioning installations at the roadbase and roadside of a state road, construction and use of commercial facilities to which access is permitted for a public road outside a settlement, for excessive use of a state road, for extraordinary transport and for damages on a state road and road facilities (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia” no. 139/2008); and b) Rulebook on technical requirements for the systems, components, independent technical units, equipment, dimensions and total mass and axle load of vehicles (“Official Gazette of RM no. 21/2010). (Enclosure: Price list in denar countervalue).

In cases when actual measured weights and dimensions shall exceed the reported weights and/or dimensions of the road train, the original Extraordinary Transport Permit shall be returned non-cancelled, with an enclosed evidence – weighting scale note, or weighting data of mobile weighting scales for weights exceeding 50 tons at border crossings (BC), i.e. exceeding 60 tons at BC Tabanovce and BC Bogorodica, then the application shall be modified, and new calculation shall be made according to the corrected data, based on which additional payment shall be made for the Permit. In accordance with this procedure, a new Extraordinary Transport Permit shall be issued with corrected data. The returned Permit and the new Permit shall both be parts of the case file.