Agricultural Products Overweight Motor Vehicle

If certain conditions are met, current law allows vehicle owners to get permits to move overweight loads. The bill creates a type of overweight permit for divisible loads granted to agricultural producers if: The vehicle is registered as a farm vehicle; The agricultural producer designates 100 days, which need not be consecutive, for each calendar year that the permit may be used; The vehicle is used to transport agricultural products from the place of production to the place of storage or sale; and The vehicle complies with rules governing the distribution of the load upon the vehicle's axles. The permit costs: $40 for general vehicles; $50 for quad axle groupings; $50 for vehicles with trailers with 2 or 3 axle groupings.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)