SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 7

(By Senators Sypolt, Baldwin, Cline, and Smith)

[Introduced January 11, 2019]

Urging Congress to amend title 23, United States Code, to permit the State of West Virginia to provide exceptions to the maximum gross vehicle weight that will allow the operation of certain vehicles, including tri-axle dump trucks, for the hauling of timber on interstate highways in West Virginia.

Whereas, Providing an exception to the existing weight limit and restrictions for certain trucks operating on interstate highways in West Virginia will allow these trucks to travel the safer interstate highways and decrease their presence on the more dangerous state and U. S.  highways of West Virginia; and

Whereas, Congress has previously provided exceptions to the maximum gross vehicle weight on interstate highways for several states of the United States; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That Congress is urged to amend title 23, United States Code, to permit the State of West Virginia to provide exceptions to the maximum gross vehicle weight that will allow the operation of certain vehicles, including tri-axle dump trucks, for the hauling of timber on interstate highways in West Virginia; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the President and Secretary of the United States Senate, to the Speaker and Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, and to the members of West Virginia’s congressional delegation.

NOTE:  The purpose of this resolution is to urge Congress to provide exceptions to the maximum weight limit of certain trucks on the Interstate System in West Virginia.