The following streets and portions of streets in the city are hereby designated as truck routes for all trucks and motor vehicles having a gross tonnage in excess of one ton:
Street
Extent
Columbia Street
Entire length
Date Street (FM 400)
Entire length
Dimmitt Road, Northwest (U.S. Highway 194)
Entire length
Milwee Street
U.S. 70 to E. 9th Street
Quincy Street
Industrial Blvd. to S.W. 3rd Street
11th Street
Date St. to Columbia St.
5th Street and U.S. Highway 70
Yonkers Street to east city limits
Olton Road (U.S. Highway 70)
Yonkers Street to west city limits
16th Street
Date St. to east city limits
24th Street
Date St. to State Hwy. 194
Industrial Blvd.
Entire length
Farm Market 3466
Entire length
(2000 Code, sec. 24-251)
The use of all streets in the city by the operators or drivers of any truck, tractor, truck-tractor, trailer, or combination truck and trailer having a carrying capacity in excess of one ton, or the driving of any of said vehicles on any street or streets in the city, except in accordance with the terms and provisions of this article, is hereby prohibited.
(2000 Code, sec. 24-252)
Any person driving or operating a truck, tractor, truck-tractor, trailer, or combination truck and trailer, having a carrying capacity in excess of one ton, when traveling through the city, shall drive same on the street or streets designated as a truck route, and shall not operate said truck, tractor, truck-tractor, trailer, or combination truck and trailer on any other street or highway in the city.
(2000 Code, sec. 24-253)
The city secretary shall keep and maintain accurate maps setting out truck routes and streets upon which truck traffic is permitted. The maps shall be kept on file in the office of the city secretary and shall be available to the public.
(2000 Code, sec. 24-254)
(a) 
It shall be a defense to prosecution that a person drives or operates a truck, tractor, truck-tractor, trailer, or combination truck and trailer, having a carrying capacity in excess of one ton, upon a street or streets not designated as a truck route in order to accomplish a commercial purpose.
(b) 
The defense provided herein shall not be applicable if the commercial purpose could have been accomplished without deviation from the truck route.
(c) 
“Commercial purpose” as used herein shall mean for the purpose of loading or unloading or for the purpose of making deliveries to a destination within the city, whether for hire or not.
(d) 
The word “person” as used in this section shall be construed to import the singular and plural as the case demands and shall include individuals, partnerships, corporations, societies, associations, and all other legal entities.
(2000 Code, sec. 24-255)
The chief of police and city policemen shall have the authority to require the person driving or in control of any commercial vehicle not proceeding over a truck route or street over which truck traffic is permitted to proceed to any public or private scale available for the purpose of weighing and determining whether this article has been complied with, and such person’s failure or refusal to proceed as required shall be deemed a misdemeanor.
(2000 Code, sec. 24-256)
(a) 
It shall be unlawful to drive or operate, on or over any street in the city, a vehicle transporting ready-mix concrete of a weight exceeding twelve thousand (12,000) pounds on a single axle, or exceeding thirty-six thousand (36,000) pounds on a tandem axle, or exceeding forty-eight thousand (48,000) pounds gross vehicle weight.
(b) 
Any person who is found guilty of violation of subsection (a) hereof shall be fined an amount as provided in section 1.01.009 of this code.
(2000 Code, sec. 24-257)