Safe Routes Act of 2025
- Bill Number
- S. 1063
- Origin Chamber
- Senate
- Congress
- 119th Congress, Session 1
- Policy Area
- Transportation and Public Works
- Status
- Introduced
- Latest Action
- 2025-03-13: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
- Last Updated
- 2025-10-09T03:26:19Z
Official Summary
Safe Routes Act of 2025
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to waive vehicle weight limits for covered logging vehicles, thus allowing logging vehicles to travel on interstate highways in certain circumstances.
The term covered logging vehicle means a vehicle that (1) is transporting raw or unfinished forest products, including logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood chips; (2) is traveling a distance of not more than 150 air miles on interstate highways from origin to a storage or processing facility; and (3) meets state legal weight tolerances and vehicle configurations for transporting raw or unfinished forest products within the state boundaries in which the vehicle is operating.
Sponsor
Recent Actions
- 2025-03-13: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
- 2025-03-13: Introduced in Senate
Bill Versions
- Safe Routes Act of 2025 — issued 2025-03-13 — PDF (2 pages)