Increases, from 8,600 pounds to 10,000 pounds, the gross vehicle weight rating of vehicles engaged in commercial towing that must be registered as tow trucks.
Allows any truck with a gross vehicle weight of eight thousand eight hundred pounds (8,800 lbs.) or less to be registered as an automobile and issued passenger plates.
Enacts the towing protection enforcement act; updates laws that regulate the towing of vehicles, including adding provisions thereto to prevent predatory towing of vehicles within the City of New York.
Including gross vehicle weight in the definitions for classes of commercial motor vehicles for drivers' license purposes and modifying the definition of commercial motor vehicle and creating a definition of air mile and gross vehicle weight in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act.