Safe Routes Act of 2025

This bill lets certain logging trucks use interstate highways even if they are heavier than normal federal limits. The Department of Transportation must waive those limits when the truck meets specific rules: it’s hauling raw or unfinished forest products (like logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood chips), it’s traveling no more than 150 air miles on the interstate from where it starts to a storage or processing site, and it follows the state’s own legal weight and vehicle rules where it’s operating. The waiver only applies to state weight tolerances that are already in place on the day this becomes law, not to any future increases a state might make.

Key points

• Who’s affected: Logging trucks carrying raw or unfinished wood products.
• What changes: Federal interstate weight limits are waived for these trucks if they meet state rules and other conditions.
• Distance limit: Up to 150 air miles on the interstate between the origin and a storage or processing facility.
• Important guardrail: Only state weight tolerances already in effect at enactment qualify for the waiver.