Code of Alabama - Title 32: Motor Vehicles and Traffic - Chapter 9 - Trucks, Trailers and Semitrailers

• Article 1 General Provisions.
• Section 32-9-1 Trailers
  Trailers, when used in a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer combination may be operated on the national system of interstate and defense highways and other highways upon designation...
• Section 32-9-2 Towing cotton wagons and module-movers
  The provisions of any other law or the provisions of any administrative rule, regulation, or order to the contrary notwithstanding, it shall be lawful to...
• Section 32-9-3 Enforcement of chapter
  Any peace officer, including sheriffs and their deputies, constables and their deputies, police officers and marshals of cities or incorporated towns, county police or patrols,...
• Section 32-9-4 Courts having jurisdiction
  All courts having jurisdiction of misdemeanors punishable by a fine of $500.00 or less and by imprisonment or hard labor, as above provided, shall have...
• Section 32-9-5 Penalties
  The operation of any truck, semitrailer truck, or trailer in violation of any section of this chapter or of the terms of any permit issued...
• Section 32-9-6 Disposition of fines and forfeitures
  All fines and forfeitures collected upon conviction or upon forfeiture of bail of any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of...
• Article 2 Size and Weight.
• Section 32-9-20 Schedule of restrictions
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or move on any highway in this state any vehicle or vehicles of a size...
• Section 32-9-20.1 Appurtenance exceeding maximum prescribed width
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 32-9-20, an appurtenance attached to a motor home, travel trailer, self-propelled camper or house car, truck camper, or recreational vehicle...
• Section 32-9-21 Maximum permissible length and width of motor bus
  (a) The term motor bus, wherever used in this section, means any motor-propelled vehicle used on the highways of this state for the transportation of...
• Section 32-9-22 Exemptions - Generally
  (a) There shall be exempt from the provisions of this article trucks, semitrailer trucks, or trailers owned by the United States, or any agency thereof,...
• Section 32-9-23 Exemptions - Milk transporters
  There shall be exempt from the provisions of this article as to weight any truck or semitrailer truck transporting milk for human consumption, for which...
• Section 32-9-24 Exemptions - Farm tractors
  Farm tractors shall be exempt from the restrictions of this article as to width, but, however, shall not exceed nine feet in width.
• Section 32-9-25 Exemptions - Length
  There shall be exempt from this article as to length, detachable wind deflection devices which have been approved by the State Department of Transportation, loads...
• Section 32-9-26 Exemptions - Two to eight wheel, one to four-axle trailer - Transporting agricultural commodities, etc
  Any provision of any other law or the provision of any administrative rule, regulation, or order to the contrary notwithstanding, it shall be lawful for...
• Section 32-9-27 Exemptions - Two to eight wheel, one to four-axle trailer - Size and equipment of such trailers
  All such trailers as described in Section 32-9-26 shall be equipped with red reflectors to adequately illuminate the rear of such trailer by placing at...
• Section 32-9-28 Exemptions - Two to eight wheel, one to four-axle trailer - Violations
  Any person violating the provisions of Sections 32-9-26 and 32-9-27 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as provided by law.
• Section 32-9-29 Permits for movement of oversized vehicles or loads
  (a) Authorized; application; issuance; seasonal, etc., limitations; refusal, revocation, or cancellation. (1) The Director of the Department of Transportation or the official of the department...
• Section 32-9-29.1 Special permits for movement of certain site-built buildings
  (a) The Director of the State Department of Transportation or the official of the State Department of Transportation designated by the director may, at his...
• Section 32-9-31 Measuring and weighing vehicles
  Any officer enumerated in Section 32-9-3 having reason to believe that the height, length, width, or weight of any truck, semitrailer truck, or trailer is...
• Section 32-9-32 Scales
  The Director of the Department of Transportation is authorized to designate, furnish instructions to, prescribe rules and regulations for the conduct of, and to supervise...

Last modified: May 3, 2021