(a)
No
person shall operate any vehicle exceeding 8,000 pounds gross weight
at any time upon any street in the city, except:
(1)
Baker Boulevard from the west city limits to the
east city limits.
(2)
Rufe Snow Drive from Baker Boulevard north to Grapevine
Highway (State Highway 26).
(3)
Glenview Drive from the west city limits to the
east city limits.
(4)
Handley-Ederville Road from Baker Boulevard south
to the south city limits.
(5)
Midway Road from the west city limits to the east
city limits.
(6)
State Highway 121 from the west city limits to the
east city limits and the access road thereto from Handley-Ederville
Road west to Scruggs Drive and the access road to State Highway 121
from Handley-Ederville Road east to the city limits.
(b)
These
streets, or parts of streets, shall be known as truck routes.
(c)
Such
vehicles may be operated over other streets for the purpose of delivering
or picking up materials or merchandise and then only by entering such
street at its nearest intersection with one of the truck routes described
above no farther than the destination of its pick up or delivery and
return to the truck route by the nearest and most direct route.
(d)
It
shall not be a defense to drive on a prohibited street with a vehicle
exceeding 8,000 pounds gross weight that the person is driving to
his home or place of business.
(e)
The
chief of police shall cause to be erected signs upon the streets which
are not truck routes which signs shall be the type to conform with
the state manual on uniform traffic control devices.
[Code 1984, ch. 10, § 34]
