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Maximum Speed for Designated Vehicles

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.