Size, Weight, and Load: United States Army Heavy Equipment Transporter: exception.

Existing law generally provides limits for the gross weight imposed upon the highway by the wheels on any one axle or any group of 2 or more axles, as specified. Existing law provides different limits for vehicles transporting loads consisting of logs and for buses, as specified. Existing law makes an exception to weight limits imposed on the highway for vehicles that transport cotton in certain circumstances during certain months of the year, as specified. This bill would provide an exemption from the prescribed weight limits imposed on the highway for a United States Army Heavy Equipment Transporter engaged in the transport of an M1 Abrams tank between Fort Irwin, California, Barstow-Daggett Airport, Daggett, California, and Marine Corps Logistics Base, Barstow, California along a route that includes Fort Irwin Road, Yermo Cut-Off, Ghost Town Road, Daggett-Yermo Road, and National Trails Highway.