Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Lowboy Auto Hauler Fairness Act of 2025”.
Lowboy Auto Hauler Fairness Act of 2025
A BILL
To amend title 49, United States Code, to increase the vehicle length limitation for truck tractor-lowboy trailer combinations, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Length limitations
Section 31111 of title 49, United States Code, is amended—
in subsection (a) by adding at the end the following:
“(8) Lowboy trailer—The term lowboy trailer means a semitrailer with a depressed section between the hitch and the first rear axle that is used specifically for the transport of assembled highway vehicles.”
in subsection (b)(1)—
in subparagraph (G), by striking “or”;
in subparagraph (H), by striking the period and inserting “; or”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(I) imposes a vehicle length limitation of less than 80 feet on a truck tractor-lowboy trailer combination with a front overhang of less than 4 feet between the rear of the truck-tractor and the front of the lowboy trailer and a rear overhang of less than 6 feet, regardless of whether the truck-tractor is or is not capable of carrying cargo for the lowboy trailer to use the front and rear overhang.”
by adding at the end the following:
“(h) Exception for lowboy trailers—Lowboy trailers shall be exempt from the rear overhang flag requirements of section 393.87 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations.”