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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 1672
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C 056 L 88 PV
State of Washington 50th Legislature 1988 Regular Session
By House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representatives Rasmussen, Schmidt, Walk, S. Wilson, Brough, May and Beck)
Read first time 2/1/88 and passed to Committee on Rules.
AN ACT Relating to identification of trucks; amending RCW 46.16.170; and adding a new section to chapter 46.37 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 46.37 RCW to read as follows:
All motor carriers shall display an identifying name or number on both sides of their trucks that are licensed under chapter 46.16 RCW and singly or in combination are more than twenty-six thousand pounds gross vehicle weight. The identification shall be in a clearly legible style with letters no less than four inches high and in a color contrasting with the surrounding body panel. On tractors, logging trucks, stake bodies, flat beds, and dump trucks the identification may be placed only on the cab. It shall be visible from a position four feet above the roadway in a lane adjacent to the truck.
If the truck is operated under a permit from the commission, the identification shall contain the name of the permittee, or business name, and the permit number. If the truck is a private carrier, the identification shall contain the name and address of either the business operating the truck or the registered owner.
Common carriers who hold both intrastate and interstate authority between points within the state and also have interstate authority between points in the state and points outside the state may display either their ICC permit number or their commission permit number.
Sec. 2. Section 46.16.170, chapter 12, Laws of 1961 as amended by section 14, chapter 18, Laws of 1986 and RCW 46.16.170 are each amended to read as follows:
Every motor truck, truck tractor, and tractor with a licensed gross weight in excess of ten thousand pounds, shall have painted or stenciled upon the outside thereof, in a conspicuous place, in letters not less than two inches high, the maximum gross weight or combined gross weight for which the same is licensed, as provided in this chapter. It is unlawful for the owner or operator of any vehicle to display a maximum gross weight or combined gross weight other than that shown on the current certificate of license registration of the vehicle.