Logging Truck Weight Limits: Federal Waiver for Short Interstate Trips
Also known as: Safe Routes Act of 2025
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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.
TransportationInfrastructureAgriculture
Milestones
3 milestones3 actions
Mar 14, 2025House
Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Mar 14, 2025House
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Mar 14, 2025
Introduced in House
Source Information
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Safe Routes Act of 2025
Bill NumberHR 2166
Congress119th Congress
ChamberHouse of Representatives
Latest ActionReferred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
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