H.R. 1487 — Agricultural and Forestry Hauling Efficiency Act

This section provides the short title of the Act as the “Agricultural and Forestry Hauling Efficiency Act.”

This section establishes an exception to the Interstate System vehicle weight limits for the Commonwealth of Virginia by allowing the State to issue special permits for covered agricultural vehicles weighing up to 90,000 pounds. As background, 23 U.S.C. § 127 generally requires States to limit vehicle weights on the Interstate System or risk a 50 percent withholding of certain Federal-aid highway apportionments. The section defines a covered agricultural vehicle as a vehicle transporting unprocessed agricultural crops used for food, feed, or fiber, or raw or unfinished forest products, including logs, pulpwood, rough-sawn green lumber, biomass, or wood chips.