The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Gross weight per axle.
Gross weight per axle shall be determined by taking the total weight of the truck or vehicle as defined herein and its then present contents and dividing such weight by the number of axles of such truck or vehicle. For example, if a truck and its contents should weigh a total of 12,000 pounds, and such truck had two axles, then the gross weight would be 6,000 pounds per axle. Should a truck tractor and trailer combination (a vehicle hereunder) and its contents weigh a total of 30,000 pounds, and such vehicle had five axles, then the gross weight per axle would be 6,000 pounds.
Local commercial
means a truck or other vehicle, including a truck tractor and trailer combination which shall be considered hereunder as a vehicle, which is self-propelled and designed or used primarily for the transportation of property and which, including its then present contents, has a gross weight in excess of 6,000 pounds per axle of said vehicle, and as to which, as to the trip then engaged upon, either its origin or its destination is within the city.
Place of business
means a place of business of the commercial or business establishment using such truck or vehicle in its business, and same shall not be construed to include a place that is primarily used for residential purpose.
Through commercial vehicle
means a truck or other vehicle, including a truck tractor and trailer combination which shall be considered hereunder as a vehicle, which is self-propelled and designed or used primarily for present contents, has a gross weight in excess of 5,000 pounds per axle of said vehicle, and as to which, as to the trip then engaged upon, both its origin and destination are outside the city.
Truck route
means a street, road or highway designated by the city council upon which it shall be lawful for a through commercial vehicle and a local commercial vehicle to travel.
(Ordinance 110, §§ 1.01—1.05, adopted 7/14/1980)
(a) 
Through commercial vehicles.
It shall be unlawful for persons to operate a through commercial vehicle upon any street or alley designated by the city council within the city limits, except that such through commercial vehicle may travel or be operated on any street, road or highway designated as a truck route. The following streets, roads and highways within the city are hereby designated roadways upon which operation of a through commercial vehicle is prohibited and such operation shall be unlawful:
(1) 
South Street.
(2) 
Eleventh Street.
(3) 
Depot Street from the east boundary line of Kenney Street to the east boundary of the city limits.
(4) 
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and South Streets from the west boundary line of Kenney Street to east boundary line of Bains Street.
(5) 
Franklin, Otto, Cooper, and Velasco Streets from the southern boundary line of US-90 to the north boundary line of South Street.
(6) 
Solomon Lane from the south boundary line of Interstate 10 to the north boundary line of Eleventh Street.
(b) 
Local commercial vehicles.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a local commercial vehicle upon any street or alley within the limits of the city as named in subsection (a) of this section, except that such local commercial vehicle may travel or be operated upon any street, road or highway designated as a truck route; provided, however, a local commercial vehicle may travel or be operated upon any street or alley within the city not designated as a truck route for the purpose of delivering or picking up goods, wares, materials or merchandise within the city or leaving or returning to its place of business within the city. When a local commercial vehicle enters a non-truck route, street or alley as herein permitted, such vehicle shall enter same at the point nearest the place of pick up or delivery or its place of business and travel to or return to a truck route by the nearest feasible route. When more than one pick up or delivery is required, same may be made and the vehicle shall not be required to return to a truck route after each pick up or delivery and shall return to a truck route after all pick-ups or deliveries.
(c) 
Truck routes established.
The following streets, roads, and highways within the city are hereby designated truck routes by name and portion thereof as follows:
(1) 
U.S. Highway 90.
(2) 
Interstate Highway 10.
(3) 
State 359.
(4) 
State Highway 1489.
(d) 
Marking of non-truck routes.
The city secretary shall mark or cause to be marked the non-through-truck routes established herein by the erection of suitable signs.
(Ordinance 110, §§ 2.01—2.04, adopted 7/14/1980; Ordinance 84-165-4, § 2, adopted 2/14/1984; Ordinance 23-711-15 adopted 5/18/2023)
The department of public works is authorized to post and maintain truck route signs along the streets and highways within the city, displaying the restrictions provided by this article to vehicular traffic traveling along such streets and highways.
(Ordinance 84-165-4, § 2, adopted 2/14/1984)
All officers of the city in investigating a possible violation of this article shall have the right to require that such truck or vehicle involved in such investigation be driven or taken to an appropriate scale for the purpose of weighing such trucks or vehicle, and the operation of same on any street in the city for such purpose shall not be a violation of this article.
(Ordinance 110, § 3, adopted 7/14/1980)
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished as provided within the limits provided in V.T.C.A., Transportation Code § 542.401.
(Ordinance 110, § 4, adopted 7/14/1980)