COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) – Gov. Henry McMaster has waived some transportation regulations ahead of possible winter weather that could affect portions of the state this weekend.
Executive Order 2022-40 states that South Carolina could experience “hazardous winter weather conditions or a prolonged period of cold temperatures, which has increased the demand for certain heating fuels and other essential commodities.”
The order temporarily suspends “certain rules and regulations” for commercial vehicles and operators. Those regulations include rules on registration, permitting, length, width, weight, load and hours of service for any vehicles responding to emergency conditions.
It includes commercial vehicles transporting “essential goods and products, such as food, water, medicine, medical supplies and equipment, fuels and petroleum products (to include gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, fuel oil, kerosene, propane, liquid petroleum, and other refined petroleum products and related equipment and assets), livestock, poultry, feed for livestock and poultry, and crops and other agricultural products ready to be harvested.
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