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                                         SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 3341

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Hansen, Barr, Goltz, Bauer, Bailey, Benitz and Guess)

Read first time 2/11/85.

AN ACT Relating to combinations of vehicles; and amending RCW 46.44.037.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 46.44.037, chapter 12, Laws of 1961 as last amended by section 53, chapter 7, Laws of 1984 and RCW 46.44.037 are each amended to read as follows:

          Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 46.44.036 and subject to such rules and regulations governing their operation as may be adopted by the state department of transportation, operation of the following combinations is lawful:

          (1) A combination consisting of a truck tractor, a semitrailer, and another semitrailer or a full trailer.  In this ((connection)) combination a converter gear used to convert a semitrailer into a full trailer shall be considered to be a part of the full trailer and not a separate vehicle.  A converter gear being pulled without load and not used to convert a semitrailer into a full trailer may be substituted in lieu of a full trailer or a semitrailer in any lawful combination;

          (2) A combination consisting of three trucks or truck tractors used in driveaway service where two of the vehicles are towed by the third in double saddlemount position;

(3) A combination consisting of a truck tractor carrying a freight compartment no longer than eight feet, a semitrailer, and another semitrailer or full trailer, which combination's length of semitrailer(s) and trailer does not exceed sixty-eight feet in length.