Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (730310) for CS for SB 1132
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/25/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Richter) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 633 and 634
    4  insert:
    5         Section 5. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section
    6  316.515, Florida Statutes, is amended to read
    7         316.515 Maximum width, height, length.—
    8         (3) LENGTH LIMITATION.—Except as otherwise provided in this
    9  section, length limitations apply solely to a semitrailer or
   10  trailer, and not to a truck tractor or to the overall length of
   11  a combination of vehicles. No combination of commercial motor
   12  vehicles coupled together and operating on the public roads may
   13  consist of more than one truck tractor and two trailing units.
   14  Unless otherwise specifically provided for in this section, a
   15  combination of vehicles not qualifying as commercial motor
   16  vehicles may consist of no more than two units coupled together;
   17  such nonqualifying combination of vehicles may not exceed a
   18  total length of 65 feet, inclusive of the load carried thereon,
   19  but exclusive of safety and energy conservation devices approved
   20  by the department for use on vehicles using public roads.
   21  Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a truck
   22  tractor-semitrailer combination engaged in the transportation of
   23  automobiles or boats may transport motor vehicles or boats on
   24  part of the power unit; and, except as may otherwise be mandated
   25  under federal law, an automobile or boat transporter semitrailer
   26  may not exceed 50 feet in length, exclusive of the load;
   27  however, the load may extend up to an additional 6 feet beyond
   28  the rear of the trailer. The 50-feet length limitation does not
   29  apply to non-stinger-steered automobile or boat transporters
   30  that are 65 feet or less in overall length, exclusive of the
   31  load carried thereon, or to stinger-steered automobile or boat
   32  transporters that are 75 feet or less in overall length,
   33  exclusive of the load carried thereon. For purposes of this
   34  subsection, a “stinger-steered automobile or boat transporter”
   35  is an automobile or boat transporter configured as a semitrailer
   36  combination wherein the fifth wheel is located on a drop frame
   37  located behind and below the rearmost axle of the power unit.
   38  Notwithstanding paragraphs (a) and (b), any straight truck or
   39  truck tractor-semitrailer combination engaged in the
   40  transportation of horticultural trees may allow the load to
   41  extend up to an additional 10 feet beyond the rear of the
   42  vehicle, provided said trees are resting against a retaining bar
   43  mounted above the truck bed so that the root balls of the trees
   44  rest on the floor and to the front of the truck bed and the tops
   45  of the trees extend up over and to the rear of the truck bed,
   46  and provided the overhanging portion of the load is covered with
   47  protective fabric.
   48         (a) Straight trucks.—A straight truck may not exceed a
   49  length of 40 feet in extreme overall dimension, exclusive of
   50  safety and energy conservation devices approved by the
   51  department for use on vehicles using public roads. A straight
   52  truck may attach a forklift to the rear of the cargo bed,
   53  provided the overall combined length of the vehicle and the
   54  forklift does not exceed 50 feet. A straight truck may tow no
   55  more than one trailer, and the overall length of the truck
   56  trailer combination may not exceed 68 feet, including the load
   57  thereon. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, a
   58  truck-trailer combination engaged in the transportation of
   59  boats, or boat trailers whose design dictates a front-to-rear
   60  stacking method may not exceed the length limitations of this
   61  paragraph exclusive of the load; however, the load may extend up
   62  to an additional 6 feet beyond the rear of the trailer.
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   64  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   65         And the title is amended as follows:
   66         Delete line 19
   67  and insert:
   68         repeal of the section; amending s. 316.515, F.S.;
   69         providing that a straight truck may attach a forklift
   70         to the rear of the cargo bed if it does not exceed a
   71         specified length; repealing s. 316.530(3), F.S.,