Logging Vehicle Weight Exemptions

Summary#

This bill would change Section 127 of Title 23, United States Code. It adds a new subsection that requires the Secretary of Transportation to waive federal vehicle weight limits for certain logging vehicles. A "covered logging vehicle" is one that (A) carries raw or unfinished forest products (for example, logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood chips), (B) travels no more than 150 air miles on the Interstate from origin to a storage or processing facility, and (C) meets the State's legal weight tolerances and vehicle configuration rules where it is operating. The waiver applies only with respect to State legal weight tolerances that were in effect on the date this subsection is enacted.

What it means for you#

• If you operate a logging truck that meets the bill's three rules, federal weight limits on the Interstate would be waived for that trip, so the truck would follow the applicable State weight tolerances and vehicle configuration rules.
• The waiver is limited to trips of no more than 150 air miles from origin to a storage or processing facility.
• The waiver only covers State weight tolerances that existed on the date the subsection is enacted.

Expenses#

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Proponents' View#

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