SB 417

This bill creates vehicle weight and width exceptions allowing limited

operation on the highway of certain logging vehicles without limitation on weight

and with a width of up to 12 feet.

Under current law, unless an exception applies, no person may operate on a

highway, without a permit, any vehicle that exceeds certain statutory size or weight

limits. Unless an exception applies, a person may not, without a permit, operate on

a highway any vehicle having a total width in excess of eight feet six inches.

Statutory weight limits depend in part on the type and configuration of the vehicle.

This bill creates vehicle weight and width exceptions for skidders, forwarders,

harvesters, and wheeled feller bunchers operated for logging purposes and operated

on the highway for a distance of 0.5 miles or less under which these vehicles may be

operated, without a permit, at a width of up to 12 feet and without limitation on

weight if unladen.

Under current law, if any bill introduced in either house of the legislature

directly or indirectly establishes an exception to vehicle weight limits, the

Department of Transportation (DOT) must prepare a report, containing specified

information, relating to the bill within six weeks after the bill is introduced and

before any vote is taken on the bill.

This bill directs DOT not to prepare such a report on this bill.