This bill would exempt stinger-steered combinations (as defined in 23 CFR 658.5) that are transporting assembled highway vehicles from the requirement in 49 CFR 393.87 to include warning flags on projecting loads. The exemption would take effect on the date the bill is enacted. The bill also directs the Secretary of Transportation to revise 49 CFR 393.87 as soon as practicable to add the exemption, and it requires the Secretary to do that without using notice-and-comment or any other formal rulemaking process.
If you operate or drive a stinger-steered combination that carries assembled highway vehicles, you would not be required by 49 CFR 393.87 to place warning flags on projecting loads beginning on enactment. If you do not operate such equipment, the bill does not change current rules that apply to you. No publicly available information about safety outcomes, enforcement changes, or other practical effects is included in the bill text.
No publicly available information on costs, budgetary effects, or federal spending is included in the bill text or metadata.
Sponsor Tom Barrett introduced the bill to create the exemption and to require an immediate regulatory revision. No publicly available information about additional supporting arguments or evidence is included in the bill text.
No publicly available information about objections, opposition, or safety concerns is included in the bill text or metadata.