Florida Senate - 2019 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS/CS/HB 725, 1st Eng. Ì105130_Î105130 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . Floor: WD/2R . 05/02/2019 11:51 AM . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Senator Albritton moved the following: 1 Senate Substitute for Amendment (509456) (with title 2 amendment) 3 4 Between lines 305 and 306 5 insert: 6 Section 4. (1) By no later than January 1, 2020, the 7 Department of Transportation shall develop a permitting program 8 that, notwithstanding any other provision of law except 9 conflicting federal law, prescribes the operation of any 10 combination of truck tractor, semitrailer, and trailer 11 combination coupled together so as to operate as a single unit 12 in which the semitrailer and the trailer unit may each be up to 13 48 feet in length, but not less than 28 feet in length, if such 14 truck tractor, semitrailer, trailer combination is: 15 (a) Being used for the primary purpose of transporting farm 16 products as defined in s. 823.14(3)(c) on a prescribed route 17 within the boundary of the Everglades Agricultural Area as 18 described in s. 373.4592(15); 19 (b) Travelling on a prescribed route that has been 20 submitted to and approved by the Department of Transportation 21 for public safety purposes having taken into account, at a 22 minimum, the point of origin, destination, traffic and 23 pedestrian volume on the route, turning radius at intersections 24 along the route, and potential for damage to roadways or bridges 25 on the route; 26 (c) Operating only on state or local roadways within a 27 radius of 60 miles from where such truck tractor, semitrailer, 28 and trailer combination was loaded, however, travel is not 29 authorized on the Interstate Highway System; and 30 (d) Meeting the following weight limitations: 31 1. The maximum gross weight of the truck tractor and the 32 first trailer shall not exceed 88,000 pounds. 33 2. The maximum gross weight of the dolly and second trailer 34 shall not exceed the lesser of 67,000 pounds. 35 3. The maximum overall gross weight of the truck tractor 36 semitrailer-trailer combination shall not exceed 155,000 pounds. 37 (2) The permitting program established pursuant to 38 subsection (1) above shall automatically expire on January 1, 39 2025, unless reauthorized by the legislature. 40 41 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 42 And the title is amended as follows: 43 Delete line 341 44 and insert: 45 for vehicles fueled by electric batteries; requiring 46 the Department of Transportation to develop, by a 47 specified date, a permitting program that authorizes 48 the operation of any combination of truck tractor, 49 semitrailer, and trailer combination coupled together 50 so as to operate as a single unit, subject to certain 51 requirements; providing that the permitting program 52 expires in five years unless reauthorized by the 53 legislature; providing