As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:
Commercial Motor Vehicle.
Shall mean a motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles used to transport persons or property that has a gross combination weight rating of 26,001 or more pounds, including a towed unit with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds; has a gross vehicle weight rating of 26,001 or more pounds; is designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver; or is transporting hazardous materials and is required to be placarded under 49 C.F.R. part 172, Subpart F.
Motor Vehicle.
Shall mean any vehicle that is self-propelled, or a vehicle that is propelled by electric power from overhead trolley wires.
Pole Trailer.
Shall mean any vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and secured to the other vehicle by means of a reach, pole or boom or other security device to the towing vehicle and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads, such as poles, pipes, or structural members capable generally of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connection.
Semi-Trailer.
Shall mean any vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to transport persons or property and constructed so that part of the vehicle's weight and load rests on or is carried by another vehicle.
Trailer.
Shall mean any vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to transport persons or property and constructed so that no part of the vehicle's weight and load rests on the motor vehicle.
Truck-Tractor.
Shall mean any motor vehicle designed or used primarily for drawing other vehicles, and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
Vehicle.
Shall mean a device that can be used to transport or draw persons or property on a highway. The term does not include a device exclusively used on stationary rails or tracks or a manufactured housing, as that term is defined by the Texas Manufactured Housing Standards Act.
(Ordinance 1422-01 adopted 6/5/01)
No person shall operate or cause to be operated any commercial motor vehicle, truck-tractor, trailer, semi-trailer, pole trailer, or any combination thereof, through the city in inter-city travel having a total gross weight with load in excess of twenty thousand pounds (20,000#) without a local destination or point of origin, except upon such streets as are designated as truck routes by this article.
(Ordinance 1422-01 adopted 6/5/01)
The provisions of this article, however, shall not apply to any such vehicles having a gross weight with load in excess of twenty thousand pounds (20,000#) as follows:
(1) 
To a vehicle traveling to or from a truck terminal, garage, place of repair, place of performing a service, or a place of loading or unloading, over the shortest practicable route to or from a point on a truck route; any such vehicle shall be permitted to proceed from one such point not on a truck route to another such point without returning to a truck route, if to so return would unreasonably increase the distance to be traveled between such points; the operator of any such vehicle shall carry evidence of the location of its last stop and of its immediate destination in order for this exception to apply;
(2) 
To authorized emergency vehicles operating in response to any emergency call;
(3) 
To vehicles operated by a public utility while cruising in an assigned area for the purpose of inspecting the facilities of said public utility and/or providing maintenance service to said facilities; and
(4) 
To vehicles operated for public service, i.e., garbage pickups, street repair and water service and maintenance.
(Ordinance 1422-01 adopted 6/5/01)
The following streets and parts of streets are designated truck routes under this article:
 
NAME OF STREET
LIMITS
(1)
Interstate Highway 35E
From the north city limits to the south city limits.
(2)
Belt Line Road
From the east city limits to the west city limits.
(Ordinance 1422-01 adopted 6/5/01)
Except as otherwise provided for herein, it shall be unlawful for any person to drive, operate or move and/or to cause or permit to be driven, operated or moved on any public street within the city any commercial motor vehicle contrary to this article.
(Ordinance 1422-01 adopted 6/5/01)