2025 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 189 - Traffic regulations -- vehicle equipment and storage 189.2713 Annual and single-trip permits for transporting loads of metal commodities weighing between 80,001 and 120,000 pounds -- Administrative regulations.
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189.2713
Annual and single-trip permits for transporting loads of metal
commodities weighing between 80,001 and 120,000 pounds -- Administrative
regulations.
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As used in this section, "metal commodities":
(a) Means output products from metal-producing industries that are transported in
their most basic and original form from a mill or storage facility to market for
processing; and
(b) Does not include manufactured parts being transported from a manufacturer
or supplier to another customer.
The department shall promulgate administrative regulations pursuant to KRS
Chapter 13A governing the issuance of annual and single-trip permits for the
operation of motor vehicles transporting metal commodities with a minimum gross
weight of eighty thousand and one (80,001) pounds and a maximum gross weight of
one hundred twenty thousand (120,000) pounds in divisible or nondivisible loads to
or from a facility manufacturing metal commodities in this state or a facility used
for storage of metal commodities. The administrative regulations promulgated
under this section shall include fees for annual and single-trip permits.
A motor carrier transporting metal commodities in divisible or nondivisible loads to
or from a facility manufacturing metal commodities in this state or a facility used
for storage of metal commodities, may apply for an annual or single-trip overweight
permit pursuant to subsection (2) of this section. A permit issued under this section
shall be specific to a single truck and shall be valid twenty-four (24) hours a day.
Permits issued under this section shall contain a website hyperlink or any other
method to provide the motor carrier with routes that are approved by the
department.
Upon renewal of any annual permit issued under this section, the permit holder
shall report to the cabinet the number of trips made and the total miles driven under
the permit during the previous year.
Administrative regulations promulgated by the department under this section may
require motor carriers to meet specific Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
(FMCSA) safety ratings and FMCSA safety measurement system scores before
issuance of a permit under this section.
Effective: July 15, 2024
History: Amended 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 198, sec. 9, effective July 15, 2024. -- Amended
2019 Ky. Acts ch. 126, sec. 3, effective June 27, 2019. -- Created 2017 Ky. Acts ch.
146, sec. 1, effective June 29, 2017.
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