Permitting the transportation of certain types of loads by motor vehicles exceeding certain weight limitations

The bill provides that such a permit issued by the DOT is valid for operation on nonprimary highways if the nonprimary highway is the shortest route between a primary highway that is not part of the interstate highway system and a field, storage facility, processing facility, or other commercial facility that is the vehicle’s origin or destination, as applicable. The bill defines “raw forest products” to mean logs, pilings, posts, poles, cordwood products, wood chips, sawdust, pulpwood, intermediary lumber, fuel wood, mulch, tree bark, and Christmas trees not altered by a manufacturing process off the land, sawmill, or factory from which the products were taken. SHIPPING CONTAINERS.457; the container is sealed for international shipment and is either in route for export to a foreign country or in route to the container’s destination from a foreign country; and documentation, such as a bill of lading or another similar document, is carried in the vehicle, in written or electronic form, that ties the container being moved to the container listed in the documentation using the unique container number marked on the container. The bill requires the documentation to clearly state the foreign country of origin or destination, and to be provided to a peace officer upon request.