Book Description

Section 10 of House Bill No. 1012 directs the Legislative Management to study the truck size and weight provisions under Chapter 39-12 relating to size, width, and height restrictions, in order to ensure the state of North Dakota may harmonize its truck size and weight regulations with the regulations of the states in the Western States Transportation Alliance. The Legislative Management is to use the findings of the study in collaboration with an Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute and Department of Transportation study of the impacts to the state of harmonizing truck size and weight regulations with states in the Western States Transportation Alliance regarding standard commercial truck envelope limits of 129,000 pounds gross vehicle combination weight or 100 foot cargo carrying length and potential implications, for the 2015-17 biennium. Section 9 of House Bill No. 1012 appropriates $60,000 from the general fund to the Department of Transportation for a collaborative study with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute of the impacts of harmonizing truck size and weight regulations with states in the Western States Transportation Alliance regarding standard commercial truck envelope limits of 129,000 pounds gross vehicle combination weight or 100 foot cargo carrying length.