PRINTER'S NO. 1693
No. 1455 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY CLYMER, NOYE, SAURMAN, J. L. WRIGHT, SEMMEL,
FARGO, SERAFINI, TRELLO, BUNT, BARLEY AND E. Z. TAYLOR,
MAY 22, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 22, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for an exemption for the overall
3 length of a load and its transporting vehicle or combination.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4923(b) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 4923. Length of vehicles.
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10 (b) Exceptions.--The limitations of (a) do not apply to the
11 following:
12 (1) Any motor vehicle equipped with a boom or boom-like
13 device if the vehicle does not exceed 55 feet.
14 (2) Any combination transporting articles which do not
15 exceed 70 feet in length and are nondivisible as to length.
16 (3) Any bus of an articulated design which does not
17 exceed 60 feet.
18 (4) Any motor vehicle towing a disabled motor vehicle to
1 a location for repair or to some other place of safety.
2 (5) A combination designed and used exclusively for
3 carrying motor vehicles if the overall length of the
4 combination and load does not exceed 65 feet. When driven as
5 described in section 4908 (relating to operation of certain
6 combinations on interstate and certain primary highways), the
7 load may extend beyond the 65-foot limit of such a
8 combination by no more than three feet in the front and no
9 more than four feet to the rear. Both saddle-mount and full-
10 mount mechanisms shall qualify under this exception.
11 (6) Any combination consisting of a truck tractor and
12 one or two trailers, when driven as described in section 4908
13 (relating to operation of certain combinations on interstate
14 and certain primary highways). Except when being operated as
15 a part of a combination of a tractor and single trailer not
16 exceeding an overall length of 60 feet, the length of a
17 single trailer shall not exceed 48 feet and the length of
18 each double trailer shall not exceed 28 1/2 feet. A single
19 trailer not wider than eight feet, when driven as described
20 in section 4908, may have an overall length not exceeding 53
21 feet.
22 (7) Any motor vehicle or combination transporting loads
23 of logs.
24 Section 2. Section 4924(d) of Title 75 is amended to read:
25 § 4924. Limitations on length of projecting loads.
26 * * *
27 (d) Exceptions.--This section does not apply to [a]:
28 (1) A motor vehicle specifically designed and being used
29 to transport roof trusses.
30 (2) A motor vehicle or combination transporting loads of
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1 logs.
2 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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