Towing Issues: towing 55 mph, school pupil, b train

Question
two part response and question.  Iread your answer to towing at 55 with motorhome and car.  the law doesnt say anything about motorhome only trucks?  this brings me to my question.  I have a motorhome that is 38' and a trailer that is 33' this is 71' total. the law say not to exceed 65' with trailer.  but on interstate no length limit can you help me with this gray area of motorhomes and trucks.  

Answer
Here is the code, read it how you wish:

"22406.   No person may drive any of the following vehicles on a highway
at a speed in excess of 55 miles per hour:

(a) A motortruck or truck tractor having three or more axles or any motortruck or truck tractor drawing any other vehicle.

(b) A passenger vehicle or bus drawing any other vehicle.

(c) A schoolbus transporting any school pupil.

(d) A farm labor vehicle when transporting passengers.

(e) A vehicle transporting explosives.

(f) A trailer bus, as defined in Section 636.

Amended Sec. 42, Ch. 724, Stats. 1999. Effective January 1, 2000.
Amended Sec. 22, Ch. 787, Stats. 2000. Effective January 1, 2001."

And here is the length regulation... Note it is 65' for rec. vehicles and 75' for tractor trailers.  

"35401.   (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d), no combination of vehicles coupled together, including any attachments, may exceed a total length of 65 feet.

(b) (1) A combination of vehicles coupled together, including any attachments, which consists of a truck tractor, a semitrailer, and a semitrailer or trailer, may not exceed a total length of 75 feet, if the length of neither the semitrailers nor the trailer in the combination of vehicles exceeds 28 feet 6 inches.

(2) A B-train assembly is excluded from the measurement of semitrailer length when used between the first and second semitrailers of a truck tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination of vehicles. However, if there is no second semitrailer mounted to the B-train assembly, it shall be included in the length measurement of the semitrailer to which it is attached.

(3) A combination of vehicles coupled together, including any attachments, may have a total length of not more than 75 feet, if all of the following apply:

(A) The combination of vehicles consists of a motortruck and two trailers.

(B) No trailer in the combination exceeds 28 feet 6 inches in length.

(C) The combination is used exclusively to transport agricultural products from the field to the first point of handling and return, and each direction of transport does not exceed 80 miles.

(D) The combination is not operated on a highway designated by the United States Department of Transportation as a national network route...  (CONTINUED)"

Keep it safe,
Shayne Peterson
MobileHitch
http://www.MobileHitch.ca/