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 which has a capacity in excess of one ton, according to the manufacturer’s rating, except on such street or streets as are designated as truck routes by this article; such vehicles shall be operated on a truck route wherever reasonably practicable.
(1964 Code, sec. 27-75(a))
The following public roadways and portions thereof are hereby designated as truck routes within the city:
(1) 
FM 1889 from Magee/Mainer north.
(2) 
Magee Lane/Mainer Road.
(3) 
First Street from Avenue A to FM 1889.
(4) 
Buena Vista from Avenue A to Avenue J.
(5) 
State Highway 44.
(6) 
77 Business.
(7) 
77 Bypass.
(8) 
Avenue B from First to Park.
(9) 
Avenue A.
(10) 
Messer Avenue.
(11) 
Lincoln Avenue.
(12) 
Ruben Chavez Road.
(13) 
Industrial Boulevard.
(14) 
Iowa from Lincoln to Third.
(15) 
Third from Avenue A to Iowa.
(16) 
Harrell Drive from 77 to Petronilla Road.
(17) 
Petronilla Road.
(18) 
Ninth Street from Avenue A to Industrial.
(19) 
Seventh Street from E. Avenue A to E. Main Street.
(20) 
100 and 200 Block of Seventh Street from East Avenue A to East Avenue B.
(1964 Code, sec. 27-75(b); Ordinance 1080 adopted 7/16/18; Ordinance 1085 adopted 4/12/19)
The provisions of this article shall not apply to a vehicle traveling to or from a 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; 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 operators of any such vehicles shall carry evidence of the location of its last stop and of its immediate destination in order for this exception to apply; [and the provisions of this article shall not apply] to emergency vehicles operating in response to any emergency.
(1964 Code, sec. 27-75(c))