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Alabama RV length limits
Alabama's limits for motorhomes, trailers, triple towing and height, quoted from its own law. Enter your rig to check it.
The law in Alabama
Motorhome: 45 ft
"motor vehicles designed, used, or maintained primarily as a mobile dwelling, office, or commercial space, commonly called motor homes, shall not exceed 45 feet"
Height: 13 ft 6 in
"No vehicle, semitrailer, or trailer shall exceed in height 13 1/2 feet, including load."
Width: 102 in (8 ft 6 in)
"Vehicles and combinations of vehicles operating on highways shall not exceed a total outside width, including any load thereon, of 102 inches, exclusive of mirrors or other safety devices approved by the Department of Transportation."
Section 32-9-20, Code of Alabama 1975 (Schedule of Restrictions), checked November 2026.
Truck and trailer or fifth wheel in Alabama. Check before you go. We found no overall length rule for your truck and trailer in Alabama's law.
Truck and trailer or fifth wheel · Alabama
Check before you goCheck before you go. We found no overall length rule for your truck and trailer in Alabama's law.
Overall length
Not statedNo rule for this found in the state's law. Ask the state DOT before you drive.
Width: 102 in (8 ft 6 in)
"Vehicles and combinations of vehicles operating on highways shall not exceed a total outside width, including any load thereon, of 102 inches, exclusive of mirrors or other safety devices approved by the Department of Transportation."
"exclusive of mirrors or other safety devices approved by the Department of Transportation"
More from Alabama's law
"LENGTH. No vehicle shall exceed in length 40 feet"
"No other vehicle operated on a highway shall carry any load extending more than a total of five feet beyond both the front and rear, inclusive, of the vehicle."
Source: Section 32-9-20, Code of Alabama 1975 (Schedule of Restrictions), checked November 2026.
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