Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (589602) for CS for SB 1458
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/22/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Richter) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (227042) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Between lines 677 and 678
    5  insert:
    6         Section 13. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section
    7  316.515, Florida Statutes, is amended to read
    8         316.515 Maximum width, height, length.—
    9         (3) LENGTH LIMITATION.—Except as otherwise provided in this
   10  section, length limitations apply solely to a semitrailer or
   11  trailer, and not to a truck tractor or to the overall length of
   12  a combination of vehicles. No combination of commercial motor
   13  vehicles coupled together and operating on the public roads may
   14  consist of more than one truck tractor and two trailing units.
   15  Unless otherwise specifically provided for in this section, a
   16  combination of vehicles not qualifying as commercial motor
   17  vehicles may consist of no more than two units coupled together;
   18  such nonqualifying combination of vehicles may not exceed a
   19  total length of 65 feet, inclusive of the load carried thereon,
   20  but exclusive of safety and energy conservation devices approved
   21  by the department for use on vehicles using public roads.
   22  Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a truck
   23  tractor-semitrailer combination engaged in the transportation of
   24  automobiles or boats may transport motor vehicles or boats on
   25  part of the power unit; and, except as may otherwise be mandated
   26  under federal law, an automobile or boat transporter semitrailer
   27  may not exceed 50 feet in length, exclusive of the load;
   28  however, the load may extend up to an additional 6 feet beyond
   29  the rear of the trailer. The 50-feet length limitation does not
   30  apply to non-stinger-steered automobile or boat transporters
   31  that are 65 feet or less in overall length, exclusive of the
   32  load carried thereon, or to stinger-steered automobile or boat
   33  transporters that are 75 feet or less in overall length,
   34  exclusive of the load carried thereon. For purposes of this
   35  subsection, a “stinger-steered automobile or boat transporter”
   36  is an automobile or boat transporter configured as a semitrailer
   37  combination wherein the fifth wheel is located on a drop frame
   38  located behind and below the rearmost axle of the power unit.
   39  Notwithstanding paragraphs (a) and (b), any straight truck or
   40  truck tractor-semitrailer combination engaged in the
   41  transportation of horticultural trees may allow the load to
   42  extend up to an additional 10 feet beyond the rear of the
   43  vehicle, provided said trees are resting against a retaining bar
   44  mounted above the truck bed so that the root balls of the trees
   45  rest on the floor and to the front of the truck bed and the tops
   46  of the trees extend up over and to the rear of the truck bed,
   47  and provided the overhanging portion of the load is covered with
   48  protective fabric.
   49         (a) Straight trucks.—A straight truck may not exceed a
   50  length of 40 feet in extreme overall dimension, exclusive of
   51  safety and energy conservation devices approved by the
   52  department for use on vehicles using public roads. A straight
   53  truck may attach a forklift to the rear of the cargo bed,
   54  provided the overall combined length of the vehicle and the
   55  forklift does not exceed 50 feet. A straight truck may tow no
   56  more than one trailer, and the overall length of the truck
   57  trailer combination may not exceed 68 feet, including the load
   58  thereon. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, a
   59  truck-trailer combination engaged in the transportation of
   60  boats, or boat trailers whose design dictates a front-to-rear
   61  stacking method may not exceed the length limitations of this
   62  paragraph exclusive of the load; however, the load may extend up
   63  to an additional 6 feet beyond the rear of the trailer.
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   65  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   66         And the title is amended as follows:
   67         Between lines 42 and 43
   68  insert:
   69         amending s. 316.515, F.S.; providing that a straight
   70         truck may attach a forklift to the rear of the cargo
   71         bed if it does not exceed a specified length;