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116TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 5773
To amend title 23, United States Code, with respect to vehicle weight limita-
tions for certain vehicles hauling perishable commodities or products,
and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Mr. WOODALL (for himself and Mr. BISHOP of Georgia) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure
A BILL
To amend title 23, United States Code, with respect to
vehicle weight limitations for certain vehicles hauling per-
ishable commodities or products, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
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tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Freight Restriction
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Elimination for Safer Hauling Act of 2019’’.
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SEC. 2. VEHICLE WEIGHT LIMITATIONS-INTERSTATE SYS-
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TEM.
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Section 127 of title 23, United States Code, is
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amended by adding at the end the following:
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‘‘(v) VEHICLES HAULING PERISHABLE COMMOD-
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ITIES OR PRODUCTS.—
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A State may waive the ap-
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plication of any vehicle weight limit established
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under this section with respect to a covered vehicle
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hauling a perishable commodity or product.
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‘‘(2) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection:
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‘‘(A) COVERED VEHICLE HAULING A PER-
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ISHABLE COMMODITY OR PRODUCT.—The term
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‘covered vehicle hauling a perishable commodity
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or product’ means a vehicle that—
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‘‘(i) is carrying—
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‘‘(I) a perishable agricultural
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commodity (as defined in section
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1(b)(4) of the Perishable Agricultural
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Commodities Act, 1930 (7 U.S.C.
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499a(b)(4));
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‘‘(II) concrete in an unhardened
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state;
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‘‘(III) live poultry;
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‘‘(IV) raw or unfinished forest
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products, including logs, pulpwood,
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biomass, or wood chips;
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‘‘(V) livestock feed; or
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‘‘(VI) other products or commod-
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ities that could be deemed not useful
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after a specified amount of time in ac-
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cordance with industry standards and
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practices, as defined by a State;
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‘‘(ii) meets the weight tolerances (or
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weight limits) and vehicle configurations of
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the State in which the vehicle is operating
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and, if applicable, point of origin radius
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distances within the State boundaries in
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which the vehicle is operating; and
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‘‘(iii) is equipped with speed-limiting
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technology that is turned on and set at a
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speed not greater than the lesser of—
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‘‘(I) the posted speed limit; or
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‘‘(II) 65 miles per hour.
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‘‘(B) SPEED-LIMITING TECHNOLOGY.—The
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term ‘speed-limiting technology’ means a tech-
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nology that prevents a commercial motor vehicle
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from exceeding a preprogramed maximum
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speed.’’.
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