2013 WISCONSIN ACT
369
An Act
to amend
348.07 (2) (k) and 348.10 (1); and
to create
348.05 (2) (m) of the statutes;
relating to:
the maximum width of, and projecting loads on, vehicles carrying poles, pipe, girders, and similar materials.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1
.
348.05 (2) (m) of the statutes is created to read:
348.05
(2)
(m) Nine feet for a vehicle or vehicle combination used by a pipeline company or operator, public service corporation, municipal utility, or cooperative association described in s. 196.01 (5) (b) 1., or by a motor carrier operating under contract with a pipeline company or operator, public service corporation, municipal utility, or cooperative association described in s. 196.01 (5) (b) 1., for transportation of poles, pipe, girders and similar materials.
Section
2
.
348.07 (2) (k) of the statutes is amended to read:
348.07
(2)
(k) Sixty feet for a single vehicle, and 120 feet for a 2-vehicle combination, used by a pipeline company or operator, public service corporation, municipal utility, or cooperative association described in s. 196.01 (5) (b) 1., or by a motor carrier operating under contract with a pipeline company or operator, public service corporation, municipal utility, or cooperative association described in s. 196.01 (5) (b) 1., for transportation of poles, pipe, girders and similar materials.
A vehicle or vehicle combination described in this paragraph may, in addition to the vehicle length specified in this paragraph, carry a load extending not more than 10 feet beyond the front bumper of the vehicle or foremost vehicle in the vehicle combination.
Section
3
.
348.10 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
348.10
(1)
No person, without a permit therefor, may operate on a highway any vehicle or combination of vehicles with any load thereon extending more than 3 feet beyond the front of the foremost vehicle, except as provided in s. 348.07 (2) (j)
and (k)
, and except that a vehicle carrying another vehicle equipped with a crane or boom which extends more than 3 feet beyond the front of the foremost vehicle may be operated without permit if the total length of the vehicle or combination of vehicles, measuring from the end of the foremost projection of the load to the rear of the rearmost vehicle, does not exceed statutory length limitations.
Section
4
.
Initial applicability.
(1) This act first applies to vehicles operated on the effective date of this subsection.
