Case Study: Saskatchewan achieves automated, accurate OS/OW permitting to protect road infrastructure with Hexagon's Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial Division

Saskatchewan - Customer Case Study

Saskatchewan’s vehicle-permitting arm (SGI) — responsible for keeping 160,000 km of roads and 785 bridges safe for commerce across a province of 1.1 million people — faced a bottleneck: a 19-person permit team issuing 350–400 oversize/overweight (OS/OW) permits daily using pens, paper maps and sticky notes. To eliminate time-consuming, error-prone manual workflows and better protect infrastructure and drivers, Saskatchewan turned to Hexagon's Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial Division for an automated solution.

Hexagon's Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial Division delivered a fully automated OS/OW routing, mapping and permitting system integrated into SGI’s SAM platform that uses MHI real-time roadway data to compare vehicle parameters against network restrictions. The system generates safe, restriction-free routes with exact distances for accurate billing, emails mapped permits and automated route-change alerts, and has enabled about 22% of carriers to self-issue permits; SGI’s staff now handle roughly 350–400 permits per day more efficiently (about 50 per person per shift), reducing manual effort, improving safety and protecting provincial infrastructure.

Saskatchewan

Curtis Mead

Director Of Vehicle Registration Policy And Permit Services