AB 365

Under current law, no person may operate on a highway any vehicle that

exceeds statutory limits on size or weight. However, the Department of

Transportation may issue permits authorizing the transportation of metallic or

nonmetallic scrap for the purpose of recycling or processing on a vehicle or

combination of vehicles that exceeds statutory weight or length limitations and for

the return of the vehicle or combination of vehicles when empty.

Under administrative rules promulgated by DOT, “recyclable scrap” is defined

as “metallic or non-metallic material in waste for which there exists a commercially

demonstrated processing or manufacturing technology which uses the material as

a raw material, and which is transported for use as such a raw material.”

This bill, for purposes of the overweight or oversize scrap permit, creates a

definition for “metallic or nonmetallic scrap” that is functionally identical to DOT's

definition for “recyclable scrap,” except that the new definition explicitly includes pig

iron.