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Commercial Truck Safety Act

Introduced: July 29, 2011 See on congress.gov
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Jul 29, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Jul 29, 2011
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5072-5073)
Jul 29, 2011
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Commercial Truck Safety Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to establish a program to improve commercial motor vehicle safety on Interstate System (IS) highways.

Directs the Secretary to initiate a rulemaking to establish a demonstration program under which a state governor may request from the Secretary a three-year waiver for covered trucks (six-axle trucks with a maximum gross weight of up to 100,000 pounds) to operate on the state's IS highways.

Requires a state, as a condition for receiving a waiver, to: (1) collect data on the waiver's effects, particularly on accident rates involving heavier trucks; and (2) establish a safety committee to review such data.

What's happening now July 29, 2011

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

 Bill text 1 version

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Klobuchar, Amy
Minnesota · Aug 2, 2011
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1450: Commercial Truck Safety Act. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-1450/
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"S. 1450: Commercial Truck Safety Act." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-1450/.
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S. 1450, 112th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-1450/.
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