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2021 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 75
BY REPRESENTATIVE BAGLEY
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To urge and request the Department of Transportation and Development to study the
feasibility and reasonableness of increasing the gross vehicle weight and axle weight
limits for an annual permit.
WHEREAS, a special permit issued on an annual basis, or per trip, for transporters
of heavy equipment requires a two thousand five hundred dollar permit fee and a size and
weight not to exceed one hundred twenty pounds and six axles; and
WHEREAS, the annual permits are subject to a per-trip assessment when the size and
weight exceed one hundred twenty pounds and six axles; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Transportation and Development does not authorize
electronic permits, resulting in a delay between the request and approval of a per-trip permit,
which may occur at any time of day or night; and
WHEREAS, transporters of heavy equipment companies would rather pay an
increased annual permit fee to allow for an increase of business by reducing the delay in per-
trip permit requests and approvals and avoid the undue burden of manual per-trip requests
during nontraditional work hours of the day; and
WHEREAS, an increased permit fee of five thousand dollars and an increased gross
vehicle weight and axle weight limit of one hundred thirty two thousand pounds and seven
axle weights would increase the revenue of the Department of Transportation and
Development, decrease the man-power needed to address multiple per-trip requests at
nontraditional work hours of the day, increase the revenue of transporters of heavy
equipment by increasing their number of trips, and decrease the undue burden of manual per-
trip permit requests at nontraditional work hours of the day.
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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
urge and request the Department of Transportation and Development to study the feasability
and reasonableness of increasing the annual permit fee to five thousand dollars and
increasing the gross vehicle weight and axle weight limits to one hundred thirty two
thousand pounds and seven axle weights for annual permits.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Transportation and
Development shall submit a report detailing the results of its study to the House Committee
on Transportation, Highways and Public Works and the Senate Committee on
Transportation, Highways and Public Works not later than February 1, 2022.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Transportation and
Development's study should include the number of annual permits, the number of additional
per-trip permits for companies who have purchased annual permits, and the amount of
revenue the annual and per-trip permits generate per year.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
to the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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