A. 
No person may drive or move, nor may an owner or lessee cause to knowingly permit to be driven or moved on a highway, a vehicle or vehicles of a size or weight or having a load exceeding the limitations stated in this chapter.
B. 
The provisions of this chapter governing size, weight, and load do not apply to a vehicle or vehicles with a load operated under the terms of a permit issued under 17 AAC 25.011.
(S.G.C. 11.17.25.010; Ord. 84-605 §§ 4(A, B), 1984; Ord. 15-20 § 4, 2015)
A. 
The total outside width of any vehicle or load on a vehicle may not exceed 96 inches, except by permit as provided in 17 AAC 25.011. Balloon or duplex tires on trucks may extend three inches beyond the limit on either side. Vehicles used in public transportation may have a total outside width, including load, of 102 inches when operating on roadways with a lane width of 12 feet. Safety devices and load binders may extend three inches beyond the limit on either side if they are situated more than four feet above the roadway. Load binders must be located on the right-hand side of the vehicle if possible.
B. 
No passenger vehicle may be operated on any highway with a load which extends beyond the line of the fenders on the left side, nor which extends more than six inches beyond the line of the fenders on the right side.
(S.G.C. 11.17.25.020; Ord. 84-605 §§ 4(A, B), 1984; Ord. 15-20 § 4, 2015)
A. 
No vehicle, including any load thereon, shall exceed a height of 13 feet six inches.
B. 
No single vehicle, including any load thereon, may exceed a length of 40 feet inclusive of front and rear bumpers, except as provided in subsection C of this section.
C. 
No semi-trailer may exceed an overall length of 45 feet. No combination of truck-tractor and semi-trailer, including any load, may exceed a length of 70 feet, including front and rear bumpers.
D. 
No combination of truck-tractor and trailer or trailers, or other combination of vehicles, including any load, may have an overall length in excess of 75 feet, including front and rear bumpers.
E. 
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this chapter limiting the length of vehicles and loads, the load on any vehicle or combination of vehicles may not extend more than three feet beyond the front bumper or more than four feet beyond the rear of the bed or body of the vehicle or trailer.
(S.G.C. 11.17.25.030; Ord. 84-605 §§ 4(A, B), 1984)
A. 
No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless it is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of the load from dropping, shifting, leaking, or escaping, except that sand may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, and water or other substance may be sprinkled on a roadway in cleaning or maintaining it.
B. 
No person may operate on any highway any vehicle with a load unless the load and any covering on it is securely fastened so as to prevent the covering or load from coming loose, detached or in any manner a hazard to other users of the highway.
(S.G.C. 11.17.25.040; Ord. 84-605 §§ 4(A, B), 1984)
When one vehicle is towing another, the drawbar or other connections shall be of such strength, design and configuration to control the towed vehicle.
(S.G.C. 11.17.25.050; Ord. 84-605 §§ 4(A, B), 1984)
Unless the context indicates otherwise, in this chapter:
“Axle”
means the common axis of rotation of two or more wheels, whether power driven or freely rotating, attached to the vehicle or trailer for the purpose of carrying a portion of the vehicle or trailer weight.
“Emergency”
means a condition that is either hazardous to life or property or that prevents a damaged road-way from being used by the public.
“Gross weight”
means the total weight of a vehicle including the load and any accumulated snow, ice, or mud.
“Height”
means the total vertical dimension of any vehicle above the roadway surface, including any load and load-holding device thereon.
“Highway”
includes a highway, road, street, bridge, tunnel, drainage structure and other similar or related structure or facility, and right-of-way.
“Load”
means anything that is carried on or in a vehicle but which is not permanently attached to it.
“Public transportation”
means a system of vehicles operated by or for a municipality to carry persons to or from locations within that municipality.
“Safety devices”
means equipment designed to enhance a driver’s view to the front, rear, and side of a vehicle, a driver’s access to a vehicle and load, and equipment designed to provide protection to other vehicles such as rear view mirrors, rubber fenders, mud flaps, rock guards, anti-spray devices, tires (due to expansion), clearance lights, rub rails, binder chains, pin pockets, door handles, turning signal brackets, steps, bumpers, and backup lights and tire chain hangers mounted on headache racks.
“Semi-trailer”
means a vehicle without motive power designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that some part of its weight and the weight of its load rests on or is carried by another vehicle.
“Single axle weight”
means the total weight transmitted to the roadway by the wheels of a single axle.
“Tandem axle”
means an assembly of two or more axles which are attached to the vehicle by a connecting mechanism designed to distribute the vehicle weight evenly to all axles of the tandem group.
“Tandem axle weight”
means the total weight transmitted to the roadway by a tandem axle.
“Trailer”
means a towed vehicle with one or more axles, one of which may be a steering axle, configured so that no significant portion of its total weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
“Truck”
means a motor vehicle of more than 10,000 pounds unladen gross vehicle weight designed, used, or maintained primarily for the movement of a load.
“Truck-tractor”
means a self-propelled motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing a semi-trailer, full trailer, or trailers.
“Vehicle”
means every device capable of being moved upon a public highway and in, upon, or by which a person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway.
(S.G.C. 11.17.25.110; Ord. 84-605 §§ 4 (A, B), 1984)