§2354-B. Pilot project to allow commercial vehicles at Canadian

weight limits to travel from the Canadian border at

Calais to Baileyville and from the Canadian border

at Van Buren to a rail yard in Van Buren

1. Pilot project. Notwithstanding section 2354, the Commissioner of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Public Safety and the Department of the Secretary of State, is authorized to conduct a pilot project that allows certain commercial vehicles at Canadian gross vehicle weight limits to travel from the Canadian border at Calais to Baileyville and from the Canadian border at Van Buren to a rail yard in Van Buren. This pilot project must include the following conditions and components.

A. The only allowable route routes of travel under the pilot project is are travel from the United States-Canada border in Calais, across North Street to U.S. Route 1, north on U.S. Route 1 to Access Road in Baileyville, east on Access Road to Domtar Woodland Mill on Main Street and north on Main Street to the Louisiana-Pacific Oriented Strand Board mill in Baileyville; and from the United States-Canada border in Van Buren on Bridge Street, east into the rail yard in Van Buren, located approximately 2/10 of one mile from the border.

B. Allowable truck configuration under this pilot project must be limited to:

(1) A 3-axle truck tractor with a 3-axle semitrailer at a gross vehicle weight of 108,900 pounds; and

(2) A 3-axle truck tractor with a semitrailer- semitrailer combination, configured as a B-train double with 8 axles total, at a gross vehicle weight of 137,700 pounds. The weight of the 2nd semitrailer may not exceed the weight of the first semitrailer.

C. Maine axle weight limits, axle group limits, commodity

allowances, maximum dimensions and all other commercial vehicle limits and requirements must apply under the pilot project, except that the B-train double overall length limit must be 82.02 feet, or 25 meters.