Scissor Lift & Boom Lift Transport

Lightest first. Booms are shown in the maker's storage or transport position (jib tucked under, axles retracted) where one is published, otherwise stowed; scissors with the rails up. Neither Genie nor JLG publishes a shipping weight, so weight is the lift's listed weight. Loaded heights are estimates: the lift's height plus a 40 in step deck or, for the three heaviest booms, a 2 ft RGN deck.

Two rows carry a caveat. JLG's 2026 spec sheet lists the 1850SJ at 9 ft 11.25 in (3.03 m) tall and its 2024 boom brochure at 10 ft (3.05 m); we use the newer sheet. And Genie publishes no separate jib-tucked height for the S-60 J, so its row carries the 8 ft 10 in stowed height.

The three big telescopic booms. The Genie SX-135 XC, Genie SX-180 and JLG 1850SJ are 8 ft 2 in wide with the axles retracted and about 11 ft 11 in to 12 ft 0 in high on a 2 ft deck, legal on both counts, but they weigh 46,900 to 59,900 lb. Our weight check assumes an empty tractor and RGN weigh 35,000 to 45,000 lb together, so more than 45,000 lb of cargo takes the gross past the 80,000 lb federal limit (23 CFR 658.17) and calls for an overweight permit. JLG says it outright for the 1850SJ: "No oversized permit is needed; an over weight permit is required for highway transportation projects."

The 60 ft class is legal on all three counts. The Genie S-60 J, JLG 600S, Genie Z-62/40 and JLG 600AJ weigh 16,650 to 22,691 lb. JLG's boom brochure, describing its articulating booms, adds "no oversized permits needed for even the largest Ultra Series boom."

None of the three comes near a superload by weight. On a tractor and RGN in that planning range, the 1850SJ grosses about 94,900 to 104,900 lb, under Ohio's 120,000 lb superload line and well under New York's 200,000 lb and Pennsylvania's 201,000 lb.

In New York the gross also sets the hours. An overweight-only load within 125% of legal weight (100,000 lb on an 80,000 lb gross limit) that keeps traffic speed may run around the clock, seven days a week, instead of only on weekdays in daylight. In that planning range the SX-135 XC (about 81,900 to 91,900 lb) and SX-180 (about 90,000 to 100,000 lb) stay inside it; the 1850SJ (about 94,900 to 104,900 lb) depends on the actual rig.

An overweight permit still comes from every state on the route. Our state-by-state oversize permit rules cover each permit system, the legal load limits table gives each state's gross limit (80,000 lb in most; New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming publish higher figures tied to particular routes, axle spacings or grandfathered rules), and the oversize load checker takes a lift's loaded size and weight. At 8 ft 2 in wide, a stowed boom stays below the first width escort trigger in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Ohio; every state's triggers are on our pilot car requirements page.

Weight runs out before deck space. By weight alone, seven GS-2632s (33,103 lb) stay under the 35,000 lb of cargo our weight check treats as legal on a standard tractor and trailer, and nine (42,561 lb) reach the borderline band below 45,000 lb. By width, three fit across 8 ft 6 in at 32.2 in each (96.6 in together), and the 3 ft 10 in GS-2646 fits two across. On a 38 ft lower deck, four rows of three would fit by footprint alone, 12 lifts, more than the weight allows. Genie gives no multi-unit loading guidance, so the carrier sets the layout.

Rough terrain scissors are heavier and wider. At 7,599 lb and 5 ft 9 in wide, four GS-3369 RTs (30,396 lb) stay under 35,000 lb, one across the deck.

Lifts that sit side by side and are held by tiedowns running across the deck must, under 49 CFR 393.106(c)(2), either touch each other or be kept from shifting toward each other in transit.