Safe Routes Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Ron Johnson
Introduced
Summary
Would create a targeted federal weight exemption so certain logging trucks can exceed interstate weight limits when hauling raw or unfinished forest products on short trips. This change would require the Secretary of Transportation to waive the application of any vehicle weight limit in Section 127 for a "covered logging vehicle." A covered logging vehicle would carry raw or unfinished forest products such as logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood chips, travel no more than 150 air miles on the Interstate System from origin to a storage or processing facility, and meet the state legal weight tolerances and vehicle configurations where it operates. The waiver would apply only with respect to the state legal weight tolerance in effect on the date of enactment.
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Federal weight waiver for log trucks
If enacted, the Secretary of Transportation would be able to waive federal Interstate vehicle weight limits for certain logging trucks. The waiver would apply only to State legal weight tolerances in effect on the date of enactment. It would cover trucks carrying raw or unfinished forest products, like logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood chips. Trips must be no more than 150 air miles on the Interstate System from origin to a storage or processing facility. Trucks would still have to meet each State's legal weight limits and vehicle configuration rules.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Ron Johnson
WI • R
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
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