NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION
CHAPTER 1449
SENATE BILL 1446
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE ALLOWABLE MAXIMUM GROSS WEIGHT OF VEHICLES HAVING FIVE OR MORE AXLES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 20-118, as the same appears in Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is amended by striking out the words "seventy thousand pounds" from line 6 of the paragraph numbered (10) and by inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"the maximum weight given for the respective distance between the first and last axle of the group of axles measured longitudinally to the nearest foot as set forth in the following table:
Distance in feet between Maximum weight in pounds
the extremes of any axles on any 5-axle group
35 or under 70,000
36 70,500
37 71,000
38 72,000
39 72,500
40 73,000
41 73,500
42 74,000
43 75,000
44 75,500
45 76,000
provided the tandem axle weight shall not exceed 35,700 pounds where the gross weight of any vehicle or combination of vehicles having five or more axles exceeds 73,000 pounds."
Sec. 2. G.S. 20-118, as the same appears in Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is further amended by inserting at the end of the next to the last paragraph, immediately following the words "two hundred eighty pounds" the following:
"on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways unless changed by federal law".
Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of April, 1974.