Safe Routes Act of 2025
- Last Action
- 3/14/2025
Actions
- 2025-03-14Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
- 2025-03-14Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
- 2025-03-14Introduced in House
- 2025-03-14Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2025-03-14 (00)
Safe Routes Act of 2025
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to waive vehicle weight limits for covered logging vehicles, thus allowing logging vehicles to travel on interstate highways in certain circumstances.
The term covered logging vehicle means a vehicle that (1) is transporting raw or unfinished forest products, including logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood chips; (2) is traveling a distance not greater than 150 air miles on interstate highways from origin to a storage or processing facility; and (3) meets state legal weight tolerances and vehicle configurations for transporting raw or unfinished forest products within the state boundaries in which the vehicle is operating.
Cosponsors (19)
- Jared Golden (D-ME)
- Mike Ezell (R-MS)
- Thomas Tiffany (R-WI)
- Derrick Van Orden (R-WI)
- Mike Collins (R-GA)
- Ben Cline (R-VA)
- Neal Dunn (R-FL)
- Glenn Thompson (R-PA)
- Eugene Vindman (D-VA)
- Earl Carter (R-GA)
- Bruce Westerman (R-AR)
- Barry Loudermilk (R-GA)
- Jeff Hurd (R-CO)
- Sheri Biggs (R-SC)
- Barry Moore (R-AL)
- Glenn Grothman (R-WI)
- John McGuire (R-VA)
- H. Griffith (R-VA)
- Pete Sessions (R-TX)
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