SENATE BILL NO. 355
INTRODUCED BY W. CRISMORE
AN ACT REVISING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR SECURING LOGS ON POLE TRAILERS; AND AMENDING SECTION 61-9-414, MCA.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
Section 1. Section 61-9-414, MCA, is amended to read:
"61-9-414. Logging trucks. (1) A truck or truck trailer combination, except pole trailers, actively engaged in transporting logs must be equipped with chains, cables, steel straps, or fiber webbing with working load limits that meet or exceed the manufacturer's marked value. The number of tie-down assemblies must be determined by the working load limits and the total weight of the load. The working load limits must equal or exceed 1 1/2 times the total weight of the load.
(2) A pole trailer actively engaged in transporting logs upon the highways of the state must be equipped as follows:
(a) At least three binders wrappers are required as standard equipment. The binders wrappers must:
(i) be made of steel chain, or steel cable, or a combination of steel chain and steel cable;
(ii) have a minimum diameter of three-eighths of an inch working load limit of at least 3,000 pounds; and
(iii) be long enough to encompass any load when secured by a fastener binder.
(b) (i) Binders Wrappers used to secure loads of logs together must be fastened by means of a fastener binder.
(i)(ii) The minimum diameter of the portions of the fastener under direct stress from the binder complete wrapper and
binder assembly must have a working load limit of at least 3,000 pounds be three-eighths of an inch.
(ii)(iii) The handle, or leverage portion of the fastener binder, when in use in tightening and holding the binder wrapper,
must be securely fastened to the binder wrapper or to the fastener binder so that it cannot be accidentally loosened.
(c) At least two binders wrappers must be in use on all loads. The binders wrappers must be placed as close as
reasonably possible to the front and rear bunks.
(d) If short logs are loaded on top of longer logs, sufficient binders wrappers must be used to secure both ends of the
short logs to the main body of the load. A log may not extend laterally beyond the stakes that form the outer boundary of
the load at the top of the stakes. Logs or poles loaded above the tops of the stakes must be loaded in a pyramidal fashion.
(3) For the purposes of this section:
(a) "binder" means a device attached to a wrapper that provides tension on and secures a wrapper; and
(b) "wrapper" means an indirect tie-down device, the tension of which is intended to secure a stack of logs."
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