To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish an axle weight tolerance for certain commercial motor vehicles transporting dry bulk goods, and for other purposes.

This bill allows commercial motor vehicles transporting dry bulk goods to operate on the Interstate Highway System with up to 110% of the maximum authorized weight on any axle or axle group.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3318 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3318

  To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish an axle weight 
 tolerance for certain commercial motor vehicles transporting dry bulk 
                     goods, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 15, 2023

 Mr. Crawford (for himself and Mr. Carbajal) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish an axle weight 
 tolerance for certain commercial motor vehicles transporting dry bulk 
                     goods, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DRY BULK WEIGHT TOLERANCE.

    Section 127 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(x) Dry Bulk Weight Tolerance.--
            ``(1) Weight tolerance.--Notwithstanding any other 
        provision of this section, except for the maximum gross vehicle 
        weight limitation, a commercial motor vehicle transporting dry 
        bulk goods may not exceed 110 percent of the maximum weight on 
        any axle or axle group described in subsection (a), including 
        any enforcement tolerance.
            ``(2) Dry bulk goods defined.--In this subsection, the term 
        `dry bulk goods' means any homogeneous unmarked nonliquid cargo 
        being transported in a trailer specifically designed for that 
        purpose.''.
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