Chapter 10.04
TRUCK ROUTES

Sections:

10.04.010    Truck routes – Designated – Exceptions.

10.04.010 Truck routes – Designated – Exceptions.

A. When signs are installed giving notice thereof, the following streets or portions of streets within the city limits are declared to be truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons:

1. Fifth Street between the westerly city limit and Tennessee Freeway;

2. Base Line between Del Rosa Drive and Boulder Avenue;

3. Del Rosa Drive between the northerly and the southerly city limits;

4. Palm Avenue between the southerly city limit and Base Line;

5. Victoria Avenue between the northerly and the southerly city limits;

6. Sterling Avenue between the northerly and the southerly city limit;

7. Boulder Avenue between Fifth Street and southerly city limit.

B. When any such truck traffic routes are established and designated by appropriate signs the operator of any vehicle exceeding the maximum gross weight limit shall drive on such routes and none other; except, that nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding the maximum gross weight coming from a truck route having ingress and egress by direct route to and from restricted streets (nontruck routes) when necessary for the purpose of:

1. Making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on such restricted streets;

2. Delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon such restricted streets for which permit has previously been obtained therefor;

3. To leave from or return to the vehicle’s storage location provided that the storage of vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons is allowable at the location pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

C. The provisions of this section shall not apply to:

1. Passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission; or

2. Any vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility. (Ord. 131, 1991)