HF 465 (LSB 2409HV (2) 87)

HOUSE FILE 465

BY  COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

(SUCCESSOR TO HSB 111)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to motor trucks traveling in a connected platoon.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 321.308, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   321.308  Motor trucks and towed vehicles —— distance requirements.
   The driver of any motor truck, or of a motor vehicle drawing another vehicle, when traveling upon a roadway, outside of a business or residence district shall not follow within three hundred feet of another motor truck, or of a motor vehicle drawing another vehicle. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prevent overtaking and passing, nor shall the same this section apply upon any lane specially designated for use by motor trucks, nor shall this section apply to any series of motor trucks using cooperative adaptive cruise control or any other automated driving technology approved by the department to travel in a connected platoon.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   Current law prohibits the driver of a motor truck from following within 300 feet of another motor truck when traveling upon a roadway outside of a business or residence district. This bill exempts from that provision motor trucks using cooperative adaptive cruise control or any other automated driving technology approved by the department of transportation to travel in a connected platoon.