New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Chapter IV - Highways › Subchapter C - Highway Use And Maintenance › Part 154 - Special Hauling Permits › Subpart 154-2 - Divisible Load Overweight Permits › Section 154-2.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
As used in this Part, unless the context requires
						otherwise, the following words and terms are defined:
(a) Advisory Council shall mean the State
					 Motor Carrier Advisory Council established by section 385  of the Vehicle and Traffic
					 Law.
(b) Agricultural vehicle shall
					 mean any motor vehicle used and owned by a person engaged in food production by
					 means of the planting, cultivation and harvesting of agricultural, vegetable
					 and food products of the soil, for the sole purpose of transporting such
					 product.
(c) Annual vehicle fee
					 shall mean the charge assessed for each divisible load overweight permit. This
					 fee covers a 12-month period except for agricultural permits, which cover a
					 four- month period. The annual vehicle fee will not be prorated for shorter
					 periods.
(d) Axle shall mean a pin
					 or shaft having carrying capacity upon which wheels or pairs of wheels revolve.
					 A pin or shaft has carrying capacity when its function is to support or sustain
					 a reasonable proportion of the laden weight of the vehicle.
(e) Banked weight capacity shall mean the New
					 York State highest permitted weight of a vehicle prior to January 1, 1888. The
					 vehicle must have been operational at some time on public highways during the
					 immediate three-year period prior to January 1, 1986 in order to be part of the
					 banked weight system.
(f)
					 Categories of permits shall mean the assignment of a nomenclature by the
					 department of either F1, F2, F3, F4, F5 or F6 to differentiate the categories
					 of permits as specified in section 385 (15)(f)  of the Vehicle
					 and Traffic Law.
(g) Commissioner
					 shall mean the Commissioner of the New York State Department of
					 Transportation.
(h) Department
					 shall mean the New York State Department of Transportation.
(i) Federal bridge formula. The weight
					 produced by the following Federal bridge formula:
W = 500((LxN) / (N-1)
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(12 x N)
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Where W equals overall gross weight on any group of two
						or more consecutive axles to the nearest 500 pounds, L equals distance in feet
						from the center of the foremost axle to the center of the rearmost axle of any
						group of two or more consecutive axles, and N equals number of axles in group
						under consideration. (Note: Two consecutive sets of tandem axles may carry a
						gross load of 34,000 pounds each provided the overall distance between the
						first and last axles of the consecutive sets of tandem axles is 36 feet or
						more.)
(j) Grouping of
					 axles shall mean two or more consecutive axles utilized in connection with the
					 Federal bridge formula.
(k) Highway
					 for which a permit is valid shall mean any public way open to use for the
					 purpose of vehicular truck traffic over which the commissioner has jurisdiction
					 (excluding those State highways within New York City). In addition a sanivan
					 permit is valid on any public way open to use for the purpose of vehicular
					 traffic.
(l) Leased vehicle. A
					 vehicle owned by a person engaged in the business of renting or leasing
					 vehicles, which is rented or leased without a driver to a person other than the
					 owner, and registered in the name of the lessee or renter.
(m) Legal weight shall mean the maximum
					 weight limits for which a vehicle or combination of vehicles is authorized by
					 section 385  of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, as well
					 as any increase in such limits specified in a permit issued pursuant to this
					 Subpart.
(n) Manufacturer
					 recommended axle and gross weight shall mean the rating specified by the
					 manufacturer as the maximum loaded weight of an individual axle or a grouping
					 of axles of a single vehicle or combination of vehicles. A vehicle can be
					 certified at a higher or lower recommended weight rating by the original
					 manufacturer, retrofitter or assembler, provided such are qualified to make
					 such certifications. Such rating will be utilized only in connection with
					 replacement vehicles.
(o) Maximum
					 gross vehicle weight is the maximum gross weight for which a divisible load
					 overweight permit may be issued. If no permit is issued or issuable, then
					 section 385  of the Vehicle and Traffic Law shall
					 apply.
(p) Maximum load which could
					 have been carried on the replaced vehicle shall mean the legal weight of the
					 vehicle or combination of vehicles less the unladen weight of the vehicle or
					 combination of vehicles.
(q)
					 Maximum gross weight for which a divisible load overweight permit may be issued
					 shall mean:
(1) For F1 permits: for a vehicle
					 having at least three axles and a wheelbase of not less than 16 feet, or for a
					 combination of vehicles with a trailer not exceeding 48 feet, apply the lesser
					 of:
(i) 102,000 pounds;
(ii) the manufacturer's rating; or
(iii) 42,500 pounds plus 1,250 pounds per
					 linear foot of wheelbase, provided however a total additional 1,875 pounds may
					 be added to the gross weight of the weight computed under this formula for any
					 additional axles in excess of three on a single unit vehicle up to 24 feet in
					 wheelbase, or any additional axles in excess of five on a combination of
					 vehicles with a minimum wheel base in excess of 36 feet.