SB 478

Bill Subjects

Abstract

Existing law generally prohibits a vehicle from exceeding a length of 40 feet, and a combination of vehicles from exceeding a total length of 65 feet, with various specific exceptions. Existing law exempts from these requirements a truck tractor and semitrailer combination, when operating on certain highways qualified by the United States Secretary of Transportation for that use or when using routes appropriately identified by the Department of Transportation or local authorities, if the semitrailer does not exceed 53 feet in length and, if configured with 2 or more axles, the rearmost axle is 40 feet or less from the kingpin, or when configured with a single axle, the axle is 38 feet or less from the kingpin. This bill would additionally exempt a truck tractor and semitrailer combination that exceeds these length requirements if the vehicle is designed and used exclusively to transport livestock, the semitrailer does not exceed a total length of 53 feet, and the design of the semitrailer prohibits the owner or operator from configuring the axles to meet the kingpin-to-axle length requirements described above.