No person shall operate any vehicle defined by this division except when necessary on any roadway other than Farm Road 922 (O'Buch Street), I-35 access road and roadways immediately forming the town square when signs are erected giving notice thereof.
(Ordinance 20, sec. 1(intro), adopted 12/12/83; Ordinance adopting Code)
The following words and phrases, when used in this division, shall, for the purpose of this division, have the meanings respectively ascribed in them as follows:
Pole trailer.
Every vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach, or pole, or by being boomed or otherwise secured 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 connections.
Semitrailer.
Every vehicle without motive power, other than pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
Trailer.
Every vehicle without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
Truck routes.
Those routes which are designated by this division for the use of truck traffic.
Truck tractor.
Every motor vehicle designed and 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.
Truck traffic.
The operation of any combination of a truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer.
(Ordinance 20, sec. 1(a), adopted 12/12/83)
No person shall operate truck traffic upon any roads, avenues, streets, or thoroughfares within the limits of the city except on those which are designated as truck routes.
(Ordinance 20, sec. 1(b), adopted 12/12/83; Ordinance adopting Code)
(a) 
If truck traffic shall originate outside the limits of 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.
(b) 
In those cases where truck traffic originates off a designated truck route, whether inside or outside the city limits and the destination of the truck traffic is nearer the origin or point of entering the limits of the city 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.
(Ordinance 20, sec. 1(c), adopted 12/12/83; Ordinance adopting Code)
Vehicles restricted to truck routes may depart from a point on such designated truck route for the purpose of traveling to and from a truck terminal, provided that such vehicle proceeds by the most direct route to or from the applicable truck terminal.
(Ordinance 20, sec. 1(d), adopted 12/12/83)
Truck traffic restricted to the streets designated as truck routes may depart from such truck routes where it is necessary to load or unload at location or locations situated off designated truck routes. Provided, however, such truck traffic shall not leave any designated truck route until such 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. Provided further, however, that if, in the course of making the necessary stops for loading and unloading, the truck traffic shall cross a designated truck route, then, in that event, such truck shall not again leave any designated truck routes 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.
(Ordinance 20, sec. 1(e), adopted 12/12/83)
Appropriate signs and markings advising motorists of the truck routes established by this division will be erected.
(Ordinance 20, sec. 1(f), adopted 12/12/83)
Whenever any street or roadway designated as a truck route is under repair, or otherwise temporarily out of use, the board of aldermen will authorize alternate truck routes.
(Ordinance 20, sec. 1(g), adopted 12/12/83; Ordinance adopting Code)
Every person who shall be convicted of a violation of this division shall be punished by a fine in accordance with the general penalty provided in section 1.01.009 of this code.
(Ordinance 20, sec. 1(h), adopted 12/12/83; Ordinance adopting Code)