Vermont § 1302 - Rubber tires on trucks; number of trailers
Full text of Vermont Vermont Statutes Online § 1302 — Rubber tires on trucks; number of trailers, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 1302. Rubber tires on trucks; number of trailers
- (a) Motor trucks shall be equipped with rubber tires. (b) Not more than one trailer shall be attached to one motor truck. However, two vehicles
may be towed in driveaway-towaway operations, including double saddlemount, if the
operations conform with the safety regulations of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration relative to coupling devices and towing methods as set forth in 49 C.F.R. §§ 393.70 and 393.71, as amended. As used in this section, “driveaway-towaway operations” means any operation
in which any motor vehicle or motor vehicles, new or used, constitute the commodity
being transported, when one set or more of wheels of any such motor vehicle or motor
vehicles are off the roadway during the course of transportation, whether or not any
such motor vehicle furnishes the motive power. (c) Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this section, on the Dwight D. Eisenhower National
System of Interstate and Defense Highways and those classes of qualifying Federal-aid
Primary System highways as designated by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation,
commercial motor vehicle combinations consisting of a truck tractor and two trailing
units may be operated with the approval of the Vermont Secretary of Transportation. (Amended 1963, No. 62, § 1, eff. April 30, 1963; 1983, No. 74, § 1, eff. April 28, 1983; 1983, No. 102 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 200; 2021, No. 20, § 244.)
Source: official Vermont text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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