ENROLLED
H. B. 2497
(By Delegates Talbott and Morgan)
[Passed April
5, 2005
; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT 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 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 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.