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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 29-A MRSA §2354-B is enacted to read:

 
§2354-B.__Pilot project to allow commercial vehicles at

 
Canadian weight limits to travel from Canadian

 
border at Houlton to New Limerick and from the

 
Canadian border at Calais to Baileyville

 
1.__Pilot project.__Notwithstanding section 2354, the
Commissioner of Transportation, in consultation with the
Department of Public Safety and the Department of the Secretary
of State, is authorized to conduct a pilot project that allows
certain commercial vehicles at Canadian gross vehicle weight
limits to travel from the Canadian border at Houlton to New
Limerick and from the Canadian border at Calais to Baileyville.__
This pilot project must include the following conditions and
components.

 
A.__The only allowable routes of travel under the pilot
project are as follows:

 
(1)__Travel from the United States-Canada border at
Houlton westerly on U.S. Route 2 to the intersection of
U.S. Route 1, then north on U.S. Route 1 to the
intersection of U.S. Route 2, then westerly on U.S.
Route 2 to the Station Road in New Limerick;

 
(2)__Travel from the United States-Canada border at
Houlton westerly on U.S. Route 2 to the intersection of
U.S. Route 2-A, then westerly on U.S. Route 2-A to the
railyard on Bangor Road in Houlton; and

 
(3)__Travel from the United States-Canada border in
Calais north on U.S. Route 1 to Main Street in
Baileyville.

 
B.__Allowable truck configuration under this pilot project
must be limited to:

 
(1)__A 3-axle truck tractor with a 3-axle semitrailer
at a gross vehicle weight of 108,900 pounds; and

 
(2)__A 3-axle truck tractor with a semitrailer-
semitrailer combination, configured as a B-train double
with 8 axles total, at a gross vehicle weight of
137,700 pounds.__The weight of the 2nd semitrailer may
not exceed the weight of the first semitrailer.


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