The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Any vehicle, with a gross vehicle weight in excess of 10,000
pounds or carrying capacity exceeding one ton and used for the delivery
of passengers, tools, materials, or livestock. A “recreational
vehicle” is not considered a commercial vehicle.
A “commercial vehicle.”
Those routes which are designated in this division for the
use of truck traffic.
The operation of any commercial vehicle including but not
limited to truck, truck tractor or combination of any truck, truck
tractor, trailer, or semitrailer that are considered commercial vehicles.
The operations of “recreational vehicles” are not considered
to be truck traffic.
(Ordinance 2020-0825-06 adopted 8/25/20)
No person shall operate truck traffic upon any roads, avenues, streets or thoroughfares within the city, except on those which are designated as truck routes in section 11.02.103 with the exceptions as set forth in sections 11.02.105 and 11.02.106.
(Ordinance 2020-0825-06 adopted 8/25/20)
For the purposes of this division, the following streets and
thoroughfares within the city are designated as truck routes:
(Ordinance 2020-0825-06 adopted 8/25/20)
If any truck traffic originating within the city shall have,
as its point of origin, a point located off a designated truck route,
it shall proceed to the nearest point on a designated truck route
by the most direct route as possible. If such traffic shall originate
outside the city and enter the city at a
point which is not on a designated truck route, it shall proceed
to the nearest point on a designated truck route by the most direct
route possible.
(Ordinance 2020-0825-06 adopted 8/25/20)
(a)
Truck traffic restricted to the streets designated as truck routes
may depart from such truck routes, where it is necessary for the immediate
loading or unloading of property at locations situated off designated
truck routes. However, such truck traffic shall not leave any designated
truck route until it has reached a point on some designated truck
route which is nearest the applicable place of loading or unloading
by the most direct route possible. After leaving a designated truck
route to load or unload, truck traffic may continue off truck routes
to as many points of destination as necessary. However, if in the
course of making necessary stops for loading and unloading the truck
traffic shall cross a designated truck route, the truck traffic shall
not again leave any designated truck route until it has reached a
point on some designated truck route which is nearest to the next
place of loading and unloading by the most direct route possible.
(b)
When, under section 11.02.103, truck traffic originates off a designated truck route, whether inside or outside the city, and the destination of the truck traffic is nearer the origin or point of entering the city, as the case may be, than is the nearest point on a designated truck route by the most direct route possible, it shall not be necessary to proceed to the nearest designated truck route.
(c)
Driving to a place of business in a commercially zoned area shall
be a defense for driving on a nontruck route.
(d)
The city may cause to be erected signs upon the streets which are
not truck routes, which signs shall be the type to conform to the
uniform traffic-control devices.
(Ordinance 2020-0825-06 adopted 8/25/20)
(a)
Emergency vehicles.
(b)
Vehicles operated by a public utility while cruising in an assigned
area for the purpose of inspecting the facilities of the public utility
and/or providing maintenance service to such facilities.
(c)
Municipal and county vehicles performing city and county business
and services, school buses and church buses.
(Ordinance 2020-0825-06 adopted 8/25/20)
