## Managing Overweight Trucks

Truck traffic signals a thriving economy, but their 
excessive weight and size disproportionately imprint 
cities’ thoroughfares and local streets. For decades, 
cities have required the largest and heaviest trucks 
to register permits, restricting their weight and 
routes. For truck drivers, this means going to City 
Hall ahead of time, filling out a paper permit, and 
waiting for manual approval.

ClearRoad worked with the City of Fremont to get 
their overweight truck permitting program out of the 
filing cabinet and into the cloud. Like in most of the 
East Bay, a growing population has meant an influx 
of additional truck traffic. This has pushed Fremont’s 
existing permitting program to its limit, diverting 
staff time and extending permit turnaround times to 
24 hours or more.

## Truck Permitting with ClearRoad

Based on extensive requirements gathering and 
interviews with multiple Fremont employees, 
ClearRoad built a three-pronged solution to 
streamline all aspects of the permitting process:

**•  Truck Permitting App** – A web-based interface 
for owner-operators or fleet managers to obtain 
permits, including:

• Vehicle Registration

• Permit Submittal

• Route Selection

**•  Permit Management Dashboard** – A cloudbased 
dashboard for city employees to review 
and approve submitted truck permits

**•  Permit Lookup App** – An in-vehicle application 
for the police officers to validate a truck’s proper 
permitting

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**Screenshots of Vehicle Registration and Route Selection from Truck Permitting App**

## Automated

## Overweight Truck

## Permitting Solution

## Further Automation

Digitizing the existing permitting steps not only 
provides numerous administrative benefits, it also 
expands the range of achievable regulations:

**•  Automated enforcement cameras** can flag 
license plates at key intersections to notify 
police officers in real-time. Advanced roadside 
equipment can even count axles and estimate 
vehicle dimension & weight, triggering citation 
issuance.

**•  Onboard truck telematics** present in most Class 
7 & 8 vehicles can automate the entire permit 
application process. The enhanced data allows 
cities to analyze freight patterns and even enact 
surcharges for travel on residential streets.

Together, these technologies open the door to 
seamless regional permitting programs, removing 
multiple pain points for cities and truck fleets alike.

## About ClearRoad

ClearRoad is giving governments the tools to manage 
and ensure funding for their roads using connected 
vehicle technologies. By standardizing connection 
to a growing number of sensors and smart devices, 
ClearRoad offers simple, cheap, and dynamic 
solutions to regaining control of the roadways. 
ClearRoad enables road pricing at all levels: road 
usage charges, congestion pricing, truck permitting, 
and beyond. ClearRoad is operating programs in 
Washington, Oregon, and Fremont, CA, with growing 
opportunities in the pipeline.

Learn more at [https://clearroad.io/](/content/site-root.html)