To amend title 49, United States Code, to increase the vehicle length limitation for truck tractor-lowboy trailer combinations, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-3184
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Moolenaar, John R. [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2019-06-10
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Motor carriers

Motor vehicles

Transportation safety and security
Latest action: action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-06-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill imposes a vehicle length limitation of less than 80 feet on a truck tractor-lowboy trailer combination with a front overhang of less than 4 feet and a rear overhang of less than 6 feet. (A lowboy trailer is a semitrailer with a depressed section between the hitch and the first rear axle.)</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3184 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 10, 2019 Mr. Moolenaar introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To amend title 49, United States Code, to increase the vehicle length limitation for truck tractor-lowboy trailer combinations, and for other purposes.

1. Length limitations Section 31111 of title 49, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following: (8) Lowboy trailer The term lowboy trailer means a semitrailer with a depressed section between the hitch and the first rear axle. ; and (2) in subsection (b)(1)— (A) in subparagraph (G), by striking or ; (B) in subparagraph (H), by striking the period and inserting ; or ; and (C) by adding at the end the following: (I) imposes a vehicle length limitation of less than 80 feet on a truck tractor-lowboy trailer combination with a front overhang of less than 4 feet and a rear overhang of less than 6 feet. .