Special speed limitations on trucks, truck tractors, motor-driven cycles, and vehicles towing housetrailers
(1) A person may not operate a truck or truck tractor, the gross weight of which exceeds 8,000 pounds, at a speed greater than 65 miles an hour on those completed sections of interstate and four-lane divided highways and 60 miles an hour on those completed sections of primary and secondary highways. However, the truck nighttime speed limit may not exceed that of automobiles, as stated in 61-8-303.
(2) A person may not operate a vehicle subject to a term permit under 61-10-124(2)(d) or a truck-trailer-trailer or truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer-trailer combination of vehicles subject to special permits under 61-10-124(4) at a speed greater than 55 miles an hour.
(3) A person may not operate a motor-driven cycle at any time mentioned in 61-9-201 at a speed greater than 35 miles an hour unless the motor-driven cycle is equipped with a headlamp or lamps that are adequate to reveal a person or vehicle at a distance of 300 feet ahead.
(4) A person may not operate a vehicle that is towing a housetrailer at a speed greater than a maximum of 50 miles an hour.
(1) A person may not operate a truck or truck tractor, the gross weight of which Except as provided in 61-8-303, 61-8-309, 61-8-310, and subsection (2) of this section, the exceeds 8,000 pounds, at a speed speed greater limit for a truck or truck tractor than of 65 miles an hour on those completed sections of interstate and four-lane divided highways and more than 1 ton "manufacturer's rated capacity" traveling on: 60 miles an hour on those completed sections of primary and secondary highways. However, the truck nighttime speed limit may not exceed that of automobiles, as stated in 61-8-303.
(a) an interstate highway, as defined in 60-1-103, is 70 miles an hour; and
(b) any other public highway is 65 miles an hour.
(2) A person may not operate a vehicle subject to a term permit under 61-10-124(2)(d) or Except as provided in 61-8-303, 61-8-309, and 61-8-310, the speed limit for a truck-trailer-trailer vehicle or subject truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer-trailer combination of vehicles subject to special permits under a 61-10-124(4) at term permit under 61-10-124(2)(d) or a speed greater than 55 miles an hour. truck-trailer-trailer or truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer-trailer combination of vehicles subject to special permits under 61-10-124(3) is 65 miles an
(3) A person may not operate a motor-driven cycle at any time mentioned in 61-9-201 at a speed greater than 35 miles an hour unless the motor-driven cycle is equipped with a headlamp or lamps that are adequate to reveal a person or vehicle at a distance of 300 feet ahead.
(4) A person may not operate a vehicle that who violates this section is towing a housetrailer at a speed greater than a maximum of 50 miles an hour. subject to the penalties provided in 61-8-725.
Special speed limitations on trucks, truck tractors, motor-driven and cycles, and vehicles towing housetrailers motor-driven cycles
| EnactedEn. SectionSec. 45, ChapterCh. 263, Laws ofL. 1955 |
| AmendedAmd. SectionSec. 1, ChapterCh. 241, Laws ofL. 1957 |
| AmendedAmd. SectionSec. 1, ChapterCh. 119, Laws ofL. 1961 |
| AmendedAmd. SectionSec. 1, ChapterCh. 253, Laws ofL. 1971 |
| Revised Codes of MontanaR.C.M. 1947, 32-2148 |
| AmendedAmd. SectionSec. 1, ChapterCh. 474, Laws ofL. 1987 |
| AmendedAmd. SectionSec. 1, ChapterCh. 437, Laws ofL. 1989 |
| AmendedAmd. SectionSec. 48, ChapterCh. 16, Laws ofL. 1991 |
| AmendedAmd. SectionSec. 1, ChapterCh. 232, Laws ofL. 1997 |