NEWS ON FEDERAL “TWIN 33” HIGHWAY TRAILER PROPOSALS

The House Appropriations Committee held their markup of the THUD bill Wednesday afternoon. In the end, Rep. Fleischmann (TN) did not offer his Twin 33 amendment and the committee voted to include the language below into the committee report accompanying the bill:

Twin-trailer truck length.—The Committee urges the Department to promptly report to the committees of jurisdiction any updated findings on the impact of increasing the length of twin-trailers from 28 feet to 33 feet.

This report language was modified before it was agreed to by most of the parties lobbying both sides of this issue.

We still expect the Senate Appropriations Committee to mark up their THUD bill either June 5 or 6. We expect that the base bill will be clean but that there may be an attempt at a Twin 33 amendment there, as well.