Safe Routes Act of 2025
Logging Truck Weight Limits: Federal Waiver for Short Interstate Trips
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Legislative Progress
Key Points
- This bill would tell the Transportation Department to waive federal truck weight limits for certain logging trucks on Interstates.
- It applies to trucks carrying raw or unfinished forest products like logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood chips.
- The waiver would only cover trips up to 150 miles from where the wood starts to a storage or processing facility.
- Logging trucks would still have to follow the state’s legal weight limits and truck setup rules where they are operating.
- States couldn’t raise their weight limits later and automatically get a bigger federal waiver; it would lock in the state tolerance that exists when the law takes effect.
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Milestones
Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
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Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Introduced in House
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Source Information
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Safe Routes Act of 2025
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