Safe Routes Act of 2025
This bill's title ("Safe Routes Act of 2025") does not align with its actual content. The bill, formally titled S 1063, actually creates a vehicle weight exemption for specific logging vehicles. It waives federal weight limits for logging vehicles transporting raw forest products (like logs or wood chips) on Interstates, but only for trips of 150 miles or less from origin to a processing facility. The exemption applies only when vehicles comply with existing state weight tolerances and configurations for such transport. This directly affects logging companies and their transportation operations within the specified distance and product parameters.
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in committee
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Introduction
Mar 2025
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Introduced Mar 13, 2025
Last action Mar 13, 2025
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Mar 13, 2025
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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Mar 13, 2025
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Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
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Ron Johnson
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