Safe Routes Act of 2025

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R JohnsonSponsor

No cosponsors.

This bill directs the Department of Transportation to waive vehicle weight limits for covered logging vehicles, thus allowing logging vehicles to travel on interstate highways in certain circumstances.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Mar 13, 2025

Safe Routes Act of 2025

The term covered logging vehicle means a vehicle that (1) is transporting raw or unfinished forest products, including logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood chips; (2) is traveling a distance of not more than 150 air miles on interstate highways from origin to a storage or processing facility; and (3) meets state legal weight tolerances and vehicle configurations for transporting raw or unfinished forest products within the state boundaries in which the vehicle is operating.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Safe Routes Act of 2025

Latest action (Mar 13, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Policy area: Transportation and Public Works · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Mar 13, 2025

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.