Weight Restrictions

Spring Weight Restrictions will be lifted on all Osceola County roads beginning at 6:00 a.m. Saturday, April 11, 2026. 

One of the most common business interactions with the Road Commission concerns seasonal weight restrictions – sometimes called “frost laws.”

While roads are concrete and asphalt and look indestructible, they can actually be quite fragile in late winter as frost comes out of the ground. Even strong late-winter sunlight on the dark paved surface has a significant impact on a road.

As frost melts beneath a paved road, the roadbed turns wet and spongy because water is trapped between the pavement and the remaining ice layer beneath. When trucks and heavy equipment travel over a layer of concrete or asphalt that isn’t well supported beneath, lots of permanent cracks can occur.