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Texas RV length limits

Texas's limits for motorhomes, trailers, triple towing and height, quoted from its own law. Enter your rig to check it.

The law in Texas

  • Motorhome: 45 ft

    "A motor vehicle, other than a truck-tractor, may not be longer than 45 feet."
  • Overall combination: 65 ft

    "A house trailer or towable recreational vehicle and motor vehicle combination may not be longer than 65 feet."
  • Triple towing: With conditions

    "Except as provided by this section, a combination of not more than three vehicles, including a truck and semitrailer, truck and trailer, truck-tractor and semitrailer and trailer, or a truck-tractor and two trailers, may be coupled together if the combination of vehicles, other than a truck-tractor combination, is not longer than 65 feet."
  • Height: 14 ft

    "A vehicle and its load may not be higher than 14 feet."
  • Width: 102 in (8 ft 6 in)

    "The total width of a vehicle operated on a public highway other than a vehicle to which Subsection (b) applies, including a load on the vehicle but excluding any safety device determined by the United States Department of Transportation or the Texas Department of Public Safety to be necessary for the safe and efficient operation of motor vehicles of that type, may not be greater than 102 inches."

Texas Transportation Code, Sections 621.201, 621.203, 621.205 and 621.207, checked November 2026.

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Truck and trailer or fifth wheel in Texas. Yes. Your truck and trailer is within Texas's length limits.

Truck and trailer or fifth wheel · Texas

Within the limits

Yes. Your truck and trailer is within Texas's length limits.

Add your height to check it against Texas's 14 ft limit.

  • Overall length

    WithinYours 52 ft · limit 65 ft
    "A house trailer or towable recreational vehicle and motor vehicle combination may not be longer than 65 feet."
    "The limitation prescribed by Subsection (a) does not apply to a house trailer or towable recreational vehicle or a combination of a house trailer or towable recreational vehicle and a motor vehicle."

Width: 102 in (8 ft 6 in)

"The total width of a vehicle operated on a public highway other than a vehicle to which Subsection (b) applies, including a load on the vehicle but excluding any safety device determined by the United States Department of Transportation or the Texas Department of Public Safety to be necessary for the safe and efficient operation of motor vehicles of that type, may not be greater than 102 inches."
"The total width of a passenger vehicle and its load may not be greater than eight feet."
More from Texas's law
"The operator of a vehicle that is higher than 13 feet 6 inches shall ensure that the vehicle will pass through each vertical clearance of a structure in its path without touching the structure."

See your rig against every state's limits

A guide to each state's published law, not legal advice. Lengths are measured as each state's law says (bumpers and hitches count in most); posted signs, local roads and permits can differ. The linked law is the authority.

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Common questions

RV length and towing questions

45 ft. Texas's law says: "A motor vehicle, other than a truck-tractor, may not be longer than 45 feet."

65 ft overall. Texas's law says: "A house trailer or towable recreational vehicle and motor vehicle combination may not be longer than 65 feet."

With conditions. Texas's law says: "Except as provided by this section, a combination of not more than three vehicles, including a truck and semitrailer, truck and trailer, truck-tractor and semitrailer and trailer, or a truck-tractor and two trailers, may be coupled together if the combination of vehicles, other than a truck-tractor combination, is not longer than 65 feet."