Title 32 — Title 32

Trailers, when used in a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer combination may be operated on the national system of interstate and defense highways and other highways upon designation by the Director of Transportation and final approval by the Governor. The Director of Transportatio…

The provisions of any other law or the provisions of any administrative rule, regulation, or order to the contrary notwithstanding, it shall be lawful to tow cotton wagons and module-movers on the highways of the state when the wagons or module-movers are being used to haul cotto…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any individual to drive or move on any highway in this state any vehicle of a size or weight except in accordance with the following: (1) HEIGHT. No vehicle, semitrailer, or trailer shall exceed in height 13 1/2 feet, including load. (2) LENGTH. No ve…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 32-9-20, an appurtenance attached to a motor home, travel trailer, self-propelled camper or house car, truck camper, or recreational vehicle commonly known as an R.V. may exceed the maximum prescribed width provided in Section 32-9-20 if …

(a) The term motor bus, wherever used in this section, means any motor-propelled vehicle used on the highways of this state for the transportation of passengers for hire. (b) Except as provided in subsection (d), it shall be lawful to drive or operate upon any highway in this sta…

(a) There shall be exempt from the provisions of this article trucks, semitrailer trucks, or trailers owned by the United States, or any agency thereof, the State of Alabama, or any county or city, or incorporated town; nor shall the provisions of this article apply to implements…

There shall be exempt from the provisions of this article as to weight any truck or semitrailer truck transporting milk for human consumption, for which refrigeration and transit is reasonably necessary in the interest of public health, when moving under refrigeration to or from …

Farm tractors shall be exempt from the restrictions of this article as to width, but, however, shall not exceed nine feet in width. History: (Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 36, §93.)

There shall be exempt from this article as to length, detachable wind deflection devices which have been approved by the State Department of Transportation, loads of poles, logs, lumber, laminated wood building materials, structural steel, piping, and timber, and vehicles transpo…

Any provision of any other law or the provision of any administrative rule, regulation, or order to the contrary notwithstanding, it shall be lawful for any farmer, custom picker, or husbandman to operate a two to eight-wheel, one to four-axle trailer on the highways of this stat…

All such trailers as described in Section 32-9-26 shall be equipped with red reflectors to adequately illuminate the rear of such trailer by placing at least two on the rear and one at each side. No such trailer shall be in excess of 10 feet in width, except that such trailer sha…

Any person violating the provisions of Sections 32-9-26 and 32-9-27 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as provided by law. History: (Acts 1953, No. 688, p. 940, §3.)

(a) Authorized; application; issuance; seasonal, etc., limitations; refusal, revocation, or cancellation. (1) The Director of the Department of Transportation or the official of the department designated by the director, upon application and for good cause being shown therefor, m…

(a) The Director of the State Department of Transportation or the official of the State Department of Transportation designated by the director may, at his or her discretion, upon application and for good cause being shown therefor, issue special permits to the applicant, for mov…

Any peace officer, including sheriffs and their deputies, constables and their deputies, police officers and marshals of cities or incorporated towns, county police or patrols, state or county license inspectors and their deputies, state troopers and special officers appointed by…

Any officer enumerated in Section 32-9-3 having reason to believe that the height, length, width, or weight of any truck, semitrailer truck, or trailer is in excess of the maximum limits prescribed by Section 32-9-20, or permitted by any permit issued under authority of Section 3…

The Director of the Department of Transportation is authorized to designate, furnish instructions to, prescribe rules and regulations for the conduct of, and to supervise official stations for determining the weight of motor vehicles at such points as it may be deemed necessary. …

All courts having jurisdiction of misdemeanors punishable by a fine of $500.00 or less and by imprisonment or hard labor, as above provided, shall have concurrent jurisdiction of the trial of all offenses under this chapter committed within their respective territorial jurisdicti…

The operation of any truck, semitrailer truck, or trailer in violation of any section of this chapter or of the terms of any permit issued under this chapter, shall constitute a misdemeanor, and the owner thereof, if such violation was with his or her knowledge or consent, and th…

All fines and forfeitures collected upon conviction or upon forfeiture of bail of any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter constituting a misdemeanor, shall be, within 30 days after such fine or forfeiture is collected, forwarded to the State T…