California committee scuttles truck legislation

The bill would have allowed Caltrans to add new truck provisions to its powers. It would have allowed the agency to update a 1989 study of the California State Highway System and erect regulatory signs, prohibiting certain length trucks from traveling certain narrow stretches of those roads.

It also would have given the California Highway Patrol the responsibility of gathering more detailed crash factors and the authority to enforce the new regulations by ticketing and fines. The bill would have also given trucking companies what was termed “knowledge and incentive” to avoid certain routes.