S.Amdt. 751

SA 751. Mr. DeWINE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 639 submitted by Mr. Lautenberg and intended to be
proposed to the bill H.R. 3, to authorize funds for Federal-aid
highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other
purposes; which

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was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted insert the
following:

SEC.  .--SENSE OF THE SENATE REAFFIRMING SUPPORT FOR CURRENT
FEDERAL LIMITATIONS ON TRUCK SIZE AND WEIGHT

Findings.--Congress finds that--
On March 11, 1998, the Senate agreed unanimously to a
resolution reaffirming limitations on the length and weight
of commercial motor vehicles as part of S. 1173, the
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1997;
In 2000, the United States Department of Transportation
released the Comprehensive Truck Size and Weight Study, which
raised new safety, infrastructure and cost recovery concerns
about lifting limitations on the length and weight of
commercial motor vehicles;
In 2004, the United States Department of Transportation
released the Western Uniformity Scenario Analysis report,
which stated the Department does not favor change in federal
truck size and weight policy; that nationwide, the Department
believes an appropriate balance has been struck on truck size
and weight; and that the Department opposes a piecemeal
approach to truck size and weight policy;
Sense of The Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that
the prohibitions and restrictions on commercial motor
vehicles under section 127(a) and (d) of title 23, United
States Code, should not be amended so as to weaken the
current `freeze' on those vehicles or result in any more or
less restrictive prohibition or restriction on those
vehicles.
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