(a) 
Except as otherwise provided by law, no commercial motor vehicle, truck-tractor, trailer, semi-trailer, pole trailer (as defined in section 11.05.031), nor any combination of such vehicles, shall be operated over, on or upon the public roadways listed below having a weight in excess of one (1) or more of the following limitations:
Roadway or Street
Extent
Single Axle Load Limit
(Pounds)
Tandem Axle Load Limit
(Pounds)
Barnes Bridge Road
From Belt Line Road to its eastern terminus
20,000
30,000
Belt Line Road
Between the north town limits and the south town limits
Except the bridge at Duck Creek is load zone limited to
20,000
15,000
34,000
15,000
Clay Road
Between Scyene Road and Highway 352
20,000
34,000
Collins Road
Between the north town limits and U.S. Highway 80
20,000
34,000
East Fork Road
On its entirety
20,000
34,000
Jobson Road
On its entirety
20,000
30,000
Lawson Road
From U.S. Highway 80 to Scyene Road
20,000
34,000
Long Creek Road
Between the Mesquite city limits and the entrance to Dallas Water Plant
20,000
34,000
Town East Blvd.
On its entirety
Except the bridge at Duck Creek is load zone limited to
20,000
12,500
34,000
12,500
Tripp Road
On its entirety
20,000
34,000
All other roadways
 
20,000
30,000
(b) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or operate any such vehicle described in subsection (a) above in excess of the weight limits set out therein.
(c) 
The overall gross weight limit of a vehicle described above shall not exceed eighty thousand (80,000) pounds except for the Barnes Bridge Road Bridge at Duck Creek which is load limited to thirty-two thousand (32,000) pounds gross total and the Town East Blvd. Bridge at Duck Creek which is load limited to twenty-five thousand (25,000) pounds gross total.
(d) 
Where a vehicle is to be operated with a tandem axle load in excess of thirty-four thousand (34,000) pounds, the owner of such vehicle shall first file with the town manager, upon recommendation of the town engineer, a surety bond in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00), and such bond shall be conditioned that the owner of such vehicle will pay to the town all damages done to the public roadways and highways by reason of operation of such vehicle with a tandem axle load in excess of thirty-four thousand (34,000) pounds. Exception is made for the bridges on Barnes Bridge Road and Town East Blvd. (both at Duck Creek), which are not designated as load zoned bridges and are posted with their legal weight limits.
(e) 
As used in this division, “axle load” shall mean total load transmitted to the road by all wheels whose centers may be included between two (2) parallel transverse vertical planes forty (40) inches apart, extending across the full width of the vehicle. “Tandem axle group” is defined as two (2) or more axles spaced forty (40) inches or more apart from center to center having at least one (1) common point of weight transmitted to the road by all wheels on two (2) or more consecutive axles.
(f) 
No such vehicle nor combination of vehicles shall have a greater weight than twenty thousand (20,000) pounds carried on any one axle, including all enforcement tolerances; or with a tandem axle weight in excess of thirty-four thousand (34,000) pounds, including all enforcement tolerances; or with an overall gross weight on a group of two (2) or more consecutive axles produced by application of the following formula:
W = 500 ((LN/(N-1)) + 12N + 36)
Where: W = overall gross weight on any group of two (2) or more consecutive axles to the nearest five hundred (500) pounds, L = distance in feet between the extreme of any group of two (2) or more consecutive axles, and N = number of axles in the group under consideration, except providing the overall distance between the first and last axles of such consecutive sets of tandem axles is thirty-six (36) feet or more; provided that such overall gross weight may not exceed eighty [thousand] (80,000) pounds, including all enforcement tolerances.
(g) 
No such vehicles nor combination of vehicles shall have a greater weight than six hundred (600) pounds per inch width of tire upon any wheel concentrated upon the surface of the highway and using high-pressure tires, and a greater weight than six hundred and fifty (650) pounds per inch width of tire upon any wheel concentrated upon the surface of the highway and using low-pressure tires, and no wheel shall carry a load in excess of eight thousand (8,000) pounds on high-pressure tires and ten thousand (10,000) pounds on low-pressure tires, nor any axle a load in excess of sixteen thousand (16,000) pounds on high-pressure tires, and twenty thousand (20,000) pounds on low-pressure tires.
(1992 Code, sec. 10.701; 2006 Code, sec. 12.701; Ordinance adopting 2021 Code)
(a) 
Issuance.
Upon written application timely made by any person who desires to operate or cause to be operated on the public roadways within the town, overweight or oversize equipment for the transportation of such commodities as cannot be reasonably dismantled, where the total gross weight or size of the vehicle and its load exceed the limits allowed by this division, the town manager, after consulting with the town engineer, shall issue a permit for the operation of such equipment or fleets of equipment for a specified period of time, over a route or routes to be designated by the town manager, if such routes can be determined at the time application for the permit is made. No permits shall be issued for overweight or oversize commercial vehicles which routes include the bridges over Duck Creek at Barnes Bridge Road or Town East Blvd. which have been designated as load zone limited.
(b) 
Application.
The application for the permit provided for in this section shall be in writing and contain the following:
(1) 
The kind of equipment to be operated, with a complete description of same and a statement as to its weight.
(2) 
The kind of commodity to be transported and a certificate as to its weight.
(3) 
The street or streets over which the equipment is to be operated, and the date or dates and the approximate time of the operation, and the number of trips to be made, except when the nature, route, time or frequency of operation cannot be determined at the time the permit is issued.
(4) 
The date.
(5) 
The applicant’s signature.
(c) 
Bond.
Before a permit is issued under this section, the applicant for same shall file with the town manager a bond in an amount to be set and approved by the town engineer. The amount of such bond shall not exceed the product of the number of vehicles for which a permit is sought multiplied by ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), which bond shall be payable to the town and conditioned that the applicant will pay to the town the sum of money necessary to repair any damage which might be occasioned to any public roadway or publicly owned appurtenant to such roadway by virtue of operation of any commercial vehicle under such permit. Venue of any suit for recovery upon the bond shall be in the county and any bond issued hereunder shall contain an unambiguous contractual provision to that effect.
(d) 
Fee.
A fee shall be charged for each permit as provided for in the fee schedule found in appendix A of this code. The proper fee shall accompany each application for permit and shall be made in cash or by cashier’s or certified check or postal money order. The fee shall be returned if the application is denied.
(e) 
Contents of permit.
Any permit issued hereunder shall include at least the following:
(1) 
The name of the applicant, the date, a description of the equipment to be operated and a description of the commodity to be transported.
(2) 
The signature of the town manager and the town engineer.
(3) 
The time for which the permit is issued.
(4) 
The specified roadway or roadways over which the equipment is to be operated, insofar as it can be determined at the time the permit is issued.
(f) 
Definition of oversized commercial vehicles.
(1) 
No commercial motor vehicle shall exceed a total outside width, including any load thereon, of one hundred two (102) inches, except that the width of a farm tractor shall not exceed nine (9) feet and that the limitations as to size of a vehicle stated in this section shall not apply to implements of husbandry, machinery used solely for the purpose of drilling water wells, or highway or street building maintenance machinery owned and operated by or on behalf of the state or any of its political subdivisions or the town.
(2) 
No commercial vehicle unladen or with load shall exceed a height of thirteen (13) feet, six (6) inches including load.
(3) 
No commercial vehicle, truck-tractor, trailer or semi-trailer, except a pole trailer, shall exceed a length of thirty-five (35) feet except when such vehicle is operated in combination and coupled to another such vehicle, and when operated in combination no such combination of vehicles coupled together shall exceed a total length of fifty (50) feet; provided, however, that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any disabled vehicle being towed by another vehicle to an intake place for repairs; and provided further that the above limitations shall not apply to any mobile or to any combination of a mobile home and a motor vehicle, but no mobile home and motor vehicle combination shall exceed a total length of fifty-five (55) feet.
(4) 
No vehicle or combination of vehicles, except pole trailers, shall carry any load extending more than three (3) feet beyond the front thereof, nor more than four (4) feet beyond the rear thereof.
(1992 Code, sec. 10.702; 2006 Code, secs. 12.301(e), 12.702; Ordinance adopting 2021 Code)