Steven Holt: “The need for my amendment is precipitated by a recent court decision that would lift a ban that has been in effect in…”

“The need for my amendment is precipitated by a recent court decision that would lift a ban that has been in effect in the State of New Jersey since 1999 that restricts the roads on which the very wide 102-inch or wider trucks travel. And this amendment would uphold current restrictions and current policy, maintain current policy and, thus, by extension, affirm the right of States to regulate the super-sized trucks on roads that are not part of the national network. In 1999 the then Secretary of Transportation and his associate at the Federal Highway Administration, the administrator, in writing and in person with Members of Congress and concerned State and local officials, categorically affirmed that, quote, ``nothing in Federal law or regulation would prevent New Jersey from banning large single or twin-trailer combinations from the subject routes unless they were traveling to a terminal or making pick ups or deliveries on these routes.''”