Towing Safety Act

This bill changes federal highway law for heavy-duty tow trucks that move wrecked or disabled vehicles. It would bar states from imposing overall length limits, or limits on the number of vehicles, on a wrecked vehicle combination being towed to a repair facility or other location directed by an agency, as long as the towed vehicles met legal limits at the time and place of the wreck. It also updates the definition of covered tow vehicles under federal weight rules to include those responding to or returning from a wreck, to use combined gross vehicle weight rating, to require travel within a single state, and to require axle weights and a setup that the transportation agency finds can safely cross bridges on the route.

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Sponsors

• David J. Taylor Republican sponsor
• 0 cosponsors