Bridges not Bumpers Act of 2025

the Federal Highway Administration;

The Federal Railroad Administration;

the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration;

State departments of transportation;

trucking organizations;

producers of GPS navigation systems;

law enforcement agencies;

companies that rent or lease covered rental vehicles directly to consumers; and

Class I, II, and III railroad carriers.

include ways to improve the availability of information and route signs specific to commercial motor vehicles on GPS navigation tools;

address potential liability issues if bridge clearance information shared between public and private partners is not accurate;

address ways to improve truck driver knowledge about bridge strikes that may include a section on commercial driver’s license tests about bridge strikes;

include ways for companies that rent covered rental vehicles to clearly label their vehicles with height and weight information;

include ways for companies that rent covered rental vehicles to provide notice, whether orally or written, of vehicle height to individuals who rent or lease a vehicle, and warn such individuals to look out for road signs about vehicle height; and

address what public or private funding streams would be necessary to incorporate bridge clearance and truck route data into GPS navigation tools.

the Secretary, in coordination with the working group established under section 3, should conduct a national education campaign to prevent and raise awareness on bridge strikes by commercial motor vehicles; and

the national education campaign should be targeted towards—

serves as a centralized repository for data collection, management, and dissemination of best practices for prevention of bridge strikes by commercial motor vehicles; and

is modeled after the prototype developed by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program of the National Academies in the publication titled “Guide for Preventing and Mitigating the Risk of Bridge and Tunnel Strikes by Motor Vehicles” (NCHRP 08–139).

identify roadway, bridge, and tunnel locations for potential infrastructure improvement projects to mitigate bridge and tunnel clearance strikes;

conduct basic, preliminary engineering tasks to analyze alternative bridge strike mitigation options and identify preferred mitigation alternative recommendations; and

assess the effectiveness of currently implemented and future countermeasures against bridge and tunnel clearance strikes and strategies and programs to reduce such strikes.

a State department of transportation;

a unit of local government;

a metropolitan planning organization;

Class II and Class III railroads; and

a transportation safety organization.

is self-propelled or towed and used on public streets, roads, and highways except a truck tractor;

has a gross vehicle weight rating of at least 5,700 pounds;

is rented without a driver for an initial term of less than 4 months; and

is part of a motor vehicle fleet of 5 or more motor vehicles that are used for rental purposes by a rental company.