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By Alice McFarlane

Highway restrictions

Weight restrictions on Saskatchewan secondary highways begin tomorrow

Mar 20, 2025 | 12:17 PM

With spring thaw beginning, weight restrictions are set to start Friday on secondary highways to protect key links of Saskatchewan’s road network.

These restrictions protect the surface and ground beneath these roads, which become wet and soften with spring thaw. This reduces allowable vehicle weights on rural municipal roads and secondary-weight provincial highways by 10 to 15 per cent.

Highways Minister David Marit said the regulations help to preserve provincial roads

“This annual measure keeps key transportation infrastructure ship shape for the long run so that our highways can move goods to support our export-based economy, which helps sustain our quality of life,” Marit said.

The 2025 restrictions go into effect at 12:01 a.m., Friday, Mar. 21 in southwest Saskatchewan. They are expected to be phased in throughout the province as it gets warmer. The spring restrictions will remain in place for up to six weeks.

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Rural municipalities are responsible for their own roads and set their own weight limits.

The latest available information about which highways have spring weight restrictions can be found here. The newest order will be under the Spring Road Bans heading. Truckers and shippers are reminded to check regularly.

Technical and regulatory information is also available through the Trucking Inquiry Line at 1-866-933-5290 or outside of Saskatchewan at 306-933-5290.

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