ENGROSSED
H. B. 2497
(By Delegates Talbott and Morgan)
[Introduced
February 18, 2005
; referred to the
Committee on Roads and Transportation then the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §17C-17-9a of the Code of West
Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the regulation of
truck trailer weights; providing for single unit trucks having
one steering axle and four axles in quadem and setting a
seventy-three thousand pound gross weight limit with a
tolerance of ten percent for these trucks; providing that a
single unit truck with one steering axle and two axles in
tandem operating in combination with a trailer with two axles
is limited to a maximum gross weight of eighty thousand pounds
with a tolerance of ten percent; clarifying that registered
weight includes the tolerance granted by law; and providing
that a single unit truck with one steering axle and three
axles in tridem operating in combination with a trailer with two axles is limited to a maximum gross weight of eighty
thousand pounds with a tolerance of ten percent
.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §17C-17-9a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 17. SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD.
§17C-17-9a. Gross weight of vehicles and loads.
(a) It shall be is unlawful for any owner, lessee or borrower
of a vehicle or combination of vehicles to operate on any highway
other than the national system of interstate and defense highways
such that vehicle or combination of vehicles with a gross weight in
excess of the gross weight for which such vehicle or combination of
vehicles is registered or in excess of any weight limitation set
forth in this chapter, whether such limitation be specifically
stated in this chapter or set by express authority granted this
chapter: Provided, That if any vehicle is operated within the
tolerances established in this section for the gross weight of that
vehicle, then that vehicle shall be deemed for all purposes to be
operating at the gross weight for which it is registered and the
registered weight is deemed to include the ten percent tolerance
associated with it under this section.
(b) Subject to the limit upon the weight imposed upon the
highway through any one axle as set forth in section eight of this article, the total gross weight on vehicles or combination of
vehicles operated on any highway other than the national system of
interstate and defense highways shall be as follows:
(1) A single unit truck having one steering axle and two axles
in tandem shall be limited to a maximum gross weight of sixty
thousand pounds with a tolerance of ten percent.
(2) A single unit truck having one steering axle and three
axles in tridem arrangement shall be limited to a maximum gross
weight of seventy thousand pounds with a tolerance of ten percent.
(3) A single unit truck having one steering axle and four
axles in quadem arrangement shall be limited to a maximum gross
weight of seventy-three thousand pounds with a tolerance of ten
percent.
(4) A tractor-semitrailer combination with five axles, a
tractor-semitrailer combination with six or more axles
, a single
unit truck having one steering axle and two axles in tandem in
combination with a trailer with two axles
and a single unit truck
having one steering axle and three axles in tridem in combination
with a trailer with two axles, shall be limited to a maximum gross
weight of eighty thousand pounds with a tolerance of ten percent.
(4) A tractor-semitrailer combination with six or more axles
shall be limited to a maximum gross weight of eighty thousand
pounds with a tolerance of ten percent.