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Safe Routes Act of 2025
To amend title 23, United States Code, with respect to vehicle weight limitations for certain logging vehicles, and for other purposes.
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- Became law
Summary
Safe Routes Act of 2025
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to waive vehicle weight limits for covered logging vehicles, thus allowing logging vehicles to travel on interstate highways in certain circumstances.
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 not greater than 150 air miles on interstate highways 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.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Mar 14, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
- Mar 14, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
- Mar 14, 2025 Introduced in House
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