How should nationally designated truck routes be reported in HPMS?
Data Item 28 requires the identification of nationally designated truck routes. These are defined as the routes designated for use by dimensioned commercial vehicles under the Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA) of 1982. Nationally designated truck routes include the Interstate System (a few sections are exempted in Minnesota and Virginia), non-Interstate routes specifically listed in 23CFR658, Appendix A, as amended, and, in the States of Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, the other existing Federal-aid Primary (FAP) routes as defined in 1991. These routes are to be coded as “1” in HPMS Item 28. Some States have extended the rules to allow STAA dimensioned commercial vehicles to operate on other State routes. These and other non-national truck network roads used between the STAA national network and terminals and facilities for food, fuel, repairs, an
