STAND. COM. REP. NO. 4

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 7
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B.
No. 7 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as referred to your Committee, is
to increase the limits on lengths of truck-trailers and
semitrailers operated or moved upon any public road, street, or
highway.

     Your Committee finds longer freight moving equipment will
permit commercial trucking companies to provide additional space
for cargo, reduce the numbers of trips to service customers, and
reduce costs of fuel and equipment inventories.  Your Committee
further finds that modest increases in the lengths of these
vehicles will not endanger highway safety.

     This bill proposes to increase the overall length of truck-
trailers from 60 to 65 feet, and the length of semitrailers from
45 to 48 feet.

     Testimonies in support of this measure were received from
the Department of Transportation and from the Hawaii
Transportation Association.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 7
and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation,



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                                   KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Chair