SOUTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT V. BARNWELL BROTHERS, INC.
303 U.S. 177 (1938)
NATURE OF THE CASE: This was a dispute over a South Carolina law limiting the width and
gross vehicle weight of motor trucks and semi-trailer motor trucks as being violative of the
Commerce Clause.
FACTS: South Carolina passed a law that limited the gross vehicle weight of trucks and
semi's to 20,000 pounds and the width to 90 inches. The trial court found that 90% of all
trucks had widths of 96 inches and that only four other states prescribed loads of less than
20,000 pounds. The court held that the Commerce Clause imposes upon state regulations to
secure the safe and economical use of highways a standard of reasonableness which is more
exacting when applied to the interstate traffic than that required by the Fourteenth
Amendment as to all traffic; that a standard of weight and width of motor vehicles which is
an appropriate state regulation when applied to intrastate traffic may be prohibited because
of its effect on interstate commerce, although the conditions attending the two classes of
traffic with respect to safety and protection of the highways are the same. Appellees do not
challenge the ruling of the district court that Congress has not undertaken to regulate the
weight and size of motor vehicles in interstate motor traffic, and has left undisturbed
whatever authority in that regard the states have retained under the Constitution.
ISSUE:
RULE OF LAW:
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LEGAL ANALYSIS:
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