To amend title 23, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Transportation to waive vehicle weight limitations for certain logging vehicles, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · June 6, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Safe Routes Act of 2023
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to waive vehicle weight limits for covered logging vehicles.
The term covered logging vehicle means a vehicle that (1) is transporting raw or unfinished forest products, including logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood chips; (2) is traveling a distance of not more than 150 air miles from origin to a storage or processing facility; and (3) meets state legal weight tolerances and vehicle configurations for transporting raw or unfinished forest products within the state boundaries in which the vehicle is operating.
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