Bill > SSB1109

Introduced Session

BACKGROUND. Current law prohibits a person from operating a motor truck, trailer, truck tractor, road tractor, or semitrailer having a gross weight that exceeds the vehicle’s registered gross weight by 5 percent. An exception allows such a vehicle transporting certain loads associated with farming to operate on the public highways so long as the gross weight does not exceed the vehicle’s registered gross weight by 25 percent. Loads subject to this exemption include raw farm products, fertilizers, raw dairy products, livestock, live poultry, and eggs. “Raw farm product” is defined by department of transportation (DOT) rule to include a list of commodities, including live poultry and eggs (761 IAC 400.47). Another statutory exemption provides that cracked or ground grain may be considered a raw farm product if it is being directly delivered between farms for purposes of cracking or grinding. BILL’S PROVISIONS. This bill codifies the list of raw farm products adopted by DOT rule entitled to be transported subject to the additional 25 percent registered gross weight exception. The bill strikes the statutory terms raw dairy products, livestock, live poultry, and eggs from the statutory exemptions and adds them into the codified list of raw farm products. The bill also adds manure, soybean meal, and wet or dry distillers grains to that list.

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 506. (on 03/03/2025)

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