Section 5.901. Commercial Vehicle Safety Program  


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  • The Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Transportation will begin immediately to investigate the conditions of State highways and bridges, leading to municipal waste facilities that are or may be used by substantial numbers of commercial municipal waste vehicles and determine whether public safety hazards or damage or destruction of State highways or bridges is being caused by commercial municipal waste transportation. Public safety concerns expressed by a host community will be addressed first. The implementation of this review will include:

    (1) Continuing commercial municipal waste vehicle safety inspections conducted in cooperation with the State Police and municipal waste facility operators.

    (2) Engineering and traffic studies of State highways and bridges used by commercial municipal waste vehicles to access a municipal waste facility that are necessary to protect the public health, safety and welfare and to prevent damages to or destruction of State highways and bridges.

    (3) Imposition of weight, size or other restrictions on State highways or bridges used by commercial municipal waste vehicles to access a municipal waste facility, as necessary, to protect the public health, safety and welfare, or to prevent damage to or destruction of State highways or bridges, or necessary due to hazardous traffic conditions or other safety factors.

    (4) Posting weight, size or other restrictions on State highways and bridges, as necessary, to protect the public health, safety and welfare or prevent damage to or destruction of State highways and bridges.

    (5) Enforcement of requirements concerning bonds or permits for excess maintenance and other applicable provisions in accordance with 75 Pa.C.S. (relating to the Vehicle Code) and 67 Pa. Code (relating to transportation).