For the purposes of this division, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Authorized emergency vehicle
means any vehicle of the fire department or police department, public and private ambulances for which permits have been issued by the state board of health, emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the governing body of an incorporated city, private vehicles operated by volunteer firefighters or certified emergency medical services employees or volunteers while answering a fire alarm or responding to a medical emergency, and vehicles operated by blood banks or tissue banks, accredited or approved under the laws of this state or the United States, while making emergency deliveries of blood, drugs, medicines or organs.
Business destination
means any location within the city limits to which a commercial motor vehicle may travel for purposes of conducting the routine business activities normally associated with said vehicle. The term “business destinations” includes truck terminals, motor fuel stations, garages, places of repair, places of performing a service and places of loading or unloading.
Commercial motor vehicle
means any motor vehicle designed or used for the transportation of property, not including a passenger bus, passenger automobile, motorcycle, panel delivery truck or pickup truck.
Driver or operator
means every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
Motor vehicle
means every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires but not operated upon rails.
Place of business origin
means any place within the city limits from which a commercial motor vehicle embarks for the purpose of conducting the routine business activities normally associated with said vehicle. The term “points of business origin” includes truck terminals, motor fuel stations, garages, places of repair, places of performing a service and places of loading or unloading.
Roadway
means that portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. If a street or highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term “roadway” refers to any such roadway separately but not to all such roadways collectively.
Semi-trailer
means every vehicle of the trailer type so designed or used in conjunction with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon or is carried by another motor vehicle.
Street or highway
means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
Trailer
means every vehicle without motive power designed or used to carry property or passengers wholly on its own structure and to be drawn by a motor vehicle.
Truck tractor
means every 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
means every mechanical device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, including motor vehicles, commercial motor vehicles, truck tractors, trailers, and semi-trailers, severally, as herein defined, but excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-99; 1998 Code, sec. 126-211; 2013 Code, sec. 56-188)
(a) 
No person shall operate or cause to be operated any truck or other commercial motor vehicle on a public street in the city without a business destination or point of business origin within the corporate limits of the city except upon streets designated as truck routes; provided, however, this section shall not apply to emergency vehicles operating in response to emergency calls or to vehicles operated by a public utility in the performance of inspection or maintenance functions. Such truck with a business destination or point of business origin within the corporate limits of the city shall be operated only on truck routes or on the shortest street route between such business destination or point of business origin and the nearest truck route. The driver of any such truck or commercial motor vehicle shall, at any time such truck or commercial motor vehicle is operated off a truck route, carry with him a bill of lading or other written evidence showing all points of business origin and business destination within the city.
(b) 
The following streets and parts of streets are designated as truck routes:
(1) 
Interstate Highway 20.
(2) 
Mansfield Highway (Spur 496–State Highway).
(3) 
Wichita Street, north of Interstate Highway 20.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-100; 1998 Code, sec. 126-212; 2013 Code, sec. 56-189)
The street and drainage superintendent shall erect appropriate signs and markings to designate the truck routes described in this division.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-102; 1998 Code, sec. 126-214; 2013 Code, sec. 56-191)
Whenever any street designated as a truck route is being repaired or is otherwise temporarily out of use, the street and drainage superintendent is authorized to designate alternate truck routes for such period as might be necessary.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-103; 1998 Code, sec. 126-215; 2013 Code, sec. 56-192)
No person shall operate or cause to be operated any commercial motor vehicle, truck tractor, trailer, semi-trailer or any combination thereof through the city in intercity travel, without a local destination or point of origin, except upon such streets as are designated as truck routes by this division.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-104; 1998 Code, sec. 126-216; 2013 Code, sec. 56-193)
Except as otherwise provided herein, no person shall operate or cause to be operated upon any public street within the city any commercial motor vehicle, truck tractor, trailer, semi-trailer or any combination thereof except on such street or streets as are designated as either truck routes or commercial delivery routes by this division. Such vehicles shall be operated on a truck route wherever reasonably practicable; provided they may be operated on a commercial delivery route only when it is not reasonably practicable to use a truck route to fulfill the purpose for which such vehicle is then being operated.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-105; 1998 Code, sec. 126-217; 2013 Code, sec. 56-194)
The provisions of section 11.05.037 shall not apply to:
(1) 
A vehicle traveling to or from a truck terminal, garage, place of repair, place of performing a service, or place of loading or unloading, over the shortest practicable route to a point on a truck route or commercial delivery route; any such vehicle shall be permitted to proceed from one such point not on a truck route or commercial delivery route to another such point without returning to a truck route or a commercial delivery route if to so return would unreasonably increase the distance to be traveled between such points; the operators 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) 
Emergency vehicles operating in response to any emergency call.
(3) 
Vehicles operated by a public utility while cruising in an assigned area for the purpose of inspecting the facilities of such public utility or providing maintenance service to the facilities.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-106; 1998 Code, sec. 126-218; 2013 Code, sec. 56-195)