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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 1063
To amend title 23, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Transpor-
tation to waive vehicle weight limitations for certain logging vehicles,
and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH13, 2025
Mr. J
OHNSONintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on Environment and Public Works
A BILL
To amend title 23, United States Code, to require the Sec-
retary of Transportation to waive vehicle weight limita-
tions for certain logging vehicles, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safe Routes Act of 4
2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. VEHICLE WEIGHT EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN LOG-6
GING VEHICLES. 7
Section 127 of title 23, United States Code, is 8
amended by adding at the end the following: 9
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‘‘(z) CERTAINLOGGINGVEHICLES.— 1
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Secretary shall waive, 2
for a covered logging vehicle, the application of any 3
vehicle weight limit established under this section. 4
‘‘(2) A
PPLICATION OF WEIGHT TOLERANCES .— 5
The waiver under this subsection shall only apply 6
with respect to a State legal weight tolerance in ef-7
fect on the date of enactment of this subsection. 8
‘‘(3) D
EFINITION OF COVERED LOGGING VEHI -9
CLE.—In this subsection, the term ‘covered logging 10
vehicle’ means a vehicle that— 11
‘‘(A) is transporting raw or unfinished for-12
est products, including logs, pulpwood, biomass, 13
or wood chips; 14
‘‘(B) is traveling a distance of not more 15
than 150 air miles on the Interstate System 16
from the point of origin to a storage or proc-17
essing facility; and 18
‘‘(C) meets applicable State legal weight 19
tolerances and vehicle configurations for trans-20
porting raw or unfinished forest products within 21
the boundaries of each State in which the vehi-22
cle is operating.’’. 23
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