When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning herein ascribed to them:
Local commercial vehicle.
Any commercial vehicle whose origin and destination is within or without the city, and any locally operated commercial vehicle.
Through commercial vehicle.
Any commercial vehicle whose origin and destination is other than the city.
Truck route.
A street, road or highway designated by the city council upon which it shall be lawful for all through commercial vehicles and local commercial vehicles to travel.
(1995 Code, sec. 10.401)
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a through commercial vehicle upon any street, within the limits of the city, except that such commercial vehicle may travel or be operated upon any street designated as a U.S. or state highway or as a truck route.
(1995 Code, sec. 10.402)
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any local commercial vehicle upon any street within the limits of the city, except on a designated U.S. or state highway or a designated truck route and travel on any street within the city for the purpose of delivering or picking up goods, wares, materials and/or merchandise or returning to its established place of business or home. When a local commercial vehicle enters a street as herein permitted such vehicle shall enter such street at the intersection nearest the point of pickup or delivery or its established place of business or home and return to the truck route by the nearest route. Where more than one pickup or delivery is required, additional pick up or delivery may be made, and the vehicle shall not be required to return to the truck route after each individual pick up or delivery but shall return to the truck route upon the completion of all pick ups or deliveries.
(1995 Code, sec. 10.403)
(a) 
Every U. S. and state highway within the limits of the city is hereby designated as a truck route under the terms of this section, and the following streets, roads and highways are hereby designated truck routes by name as follows:
(1) 
U. S. Highway 82.
(2) 
F.M. Road 677.
(3) 
F.M. Road 2382.
(b) 
Marking of truck routes.
The traffic engineer shall mark truck routes established here by the erection of suitable signs.
(1995 Code, sec. 10.404)
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00). Each violation shall constitute a separate offense.
(1995 Code, sec. 10.405)