Chapter 10.12
TRUCK ROUTES
Sections:
10.12.020 Applicability of section – Exceptions.
10.12.030 Truck routes established.
10.12.040 Truck traffic in the city.
10.12.045 Compression brakes prohibited.
10.12.060 Violation – Penalty.
10.12.010 Definitions.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivation shall have the meanings given in this section. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words in the plural number include the singular number, and words in the singular number include the plural number. The word “shall” is always mandatory and not merely directory.
A. “City” means the city of Grandview, Washington.
B. “Deviating truck” means a truck which leaves and departs from a truck route while traveling inside the city.
C. “Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
D. “Truck” means any vehicle designed or operated for the transportation of property, and whose body weight or whose combined body and load weight exceeds 10,000 pounds.
E. “Truck route” means a way over certain streets, as designated in this chapter, over and along which trucks coming into and going out of the city must operate. (Ord. 2007-10 § 2).
10.12.020 Applicability of section – Exceptions.
A. All trucks within the city shall be operated only over and along the truck routes established in this chapter and on the other designated streets over which truck travel is permitted.
B. Exceptions. This chapter shall not prohibit:
1. Operation on Street of Destination. The operation of trucks upon any street where necessary to the conduct of business at a destination point, provided streets upon which such traffic is permitted are used until reaching the intersection nearest the destination point;
2. Emergency Vehicles. The operation of emergency vehicles upon any street in the city;
3. Public Utilities. The operation of trucks owned or operated by the city, public utilities, any contractor or materialman, while engaged in the repair, maintenance or construction of streets, street improvements, or street utilities within the city;
4. Detoured Trucks. The operation of trucks upon any officially established detour in any case where such truck could lawfully be operated upon the street for which such detour is established. (Ord. 2007-10 § 2).
10.12.030 Truck routes established.
There are established within the city the following “truck routes”:
A. Streets.
1. Wine Country Road – city limits to city limits.
2. Wallace Way – from Forsell north to Stover Road.
3. Stover Road – from Exit 73 west to Puterbaugh.
4. Bonnieview – from Euclid east to Elm.
5. Wilson Highway – from Bonnieview south to Wine Country Road.
6. Grandridge Road – from Wine Country Road south to West Fifth Street.
7. Grandridge Road – from West Fifth Street south to city limits.
8. Euclid – from Wine Country Road south to city limits.
9. Elm Street – from Willoughby south to city limits.
10. East Fifth Street – from Elm west to Birch.
11. Munson Lane – from Grandridge east to South Division.
12. Division Street – from Third Street south to Fifth Street.
13. Forsell – from Euclid west to city limits.
14. Ash Street – from Second Street north to Wine County Road.
B. Alleyways.
1. From Grandridge Road east to Ash, between Wine Country Road and West Second Street.
2. From West Third north to “T” alley between Avenue A and Division.
3. From West Third north to “T” alley between Division and Ash Streets. (Ord. 2007-10 § 2).
10.12.040 Truck traffic in the city.
A. Outside Origin.
1. One Inside Destination Point. All trucks entering the city for a destination point in the city shall proceed only over an established truck route and shall deviate only at the intersection with the street, upon which such traffic is permitted, nearest to the destination point. Upon leaving the destination point, a deviating truck shall return to the truck route by the shortest permissible route.
2. Multiple Inside Destination Points. All trucks entering the city for multiple destination points shall proceed only over established truck routes and shall deviate only at the intersection with the street, upon which such traffic is permitted, nearest to the final destination point. Upon leaving the first destination point, a deviating truck shall proceed to other destination points by the shortest direction and only over streets upon which such traffic is permitted. Upon leaving the last destination point, a deviating truck shall return to the truck route by the shortest permissible route.
B. Inside Origin.
1. Outside Destination Point. All trucks, on a trip originating in the city and traveling in the city for a destination point outside the city, shall proceed by the shortest direction over streets on which such traffic is permitted to a truck route as established in this chapter.
2. Inside Destination Points. All trucks, on a trip originating in the city and traveling in the city for destination points in the city, shall proceed only over streets upon which such traffic is permitted. (Ord. 2007-10 § 2).
10.12.045 Compression brakes prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any truck covered under this chapter to use compression brakes, also known as engine brakes or “jake” brakes, within the city limits of Grandview. (Ord. 2007-10 § 2).
10.12.050 Enforcement.
A. Clerk Maintains Maps. The city clerk shall keep and maintain accurate maps setting out truck routes and streets upon which truck traffic is permitted. The maps shall be kept on file in the office of the city clerk and shall be available to the public.
B. Chief of Police Maintains Signs. The chief of police of the city shall cause all truck routes and those streets upon which truck traffic is prohibited to be clearly signposted to give notice that this chapter is in effect.
C. Failure to Post. No person shall be charged with violating the provisions of this chapter by reason of operating a truck upon a street wherein truck travel is prohibited unless appropriate signs are posted on such street.
D. Weigh-In. The chief of police shall have the authority to require any person driving or in control of any commercial vehicle not proceeding over a truck route or street over which truck traffic is permitted to proceed to any public or private scale available for the purpose of weighing and determining whether this chapter has been complied with. (Ord. 2007-10 § 2).
10.12.060 Violation – Penalty.
Violation of this chapter shall be a civil infraction punishable by a fine not to exceed $300.00. (Ord. 2007-10 § 2).