Congress·In Committee·H.R. 2166

Safe Routes Act of 2025

Logging Truck Weight Limits: Federal Waiver for Short Interstate Trips

Mar 14, 2025·View on Congress.gov·Read full text

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Reintroduced
Reintroduced from H.R. 2493 (118th), which died when its Congress ended.
H.R. 2493 (118th) →

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

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Mar 14, 2025House

Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

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Mar 14, 2025House

Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Mar 14, 2025

Introduced in House

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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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D: 2R: 16

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