Chapter 10.10
TRUCK ROUTES1
Sections:
10.10.020 Application of regulation.
10.10.040 Truck route established.
10.10.050 Truck traffic in the city – Outside origin.
10.10.060 Truck traffic in city – Inside origin.
10.10.100 Violation – Penalty.
10.10.010 Definitions.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words, and their derivations shall have the meaning 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. “Shall” is always mandatory and not merely directory:
A. “City” is the city of North Bend.
B. “Deviating truck” is a truck which leaves and departs from a truck route while traveling inside the city.
C. “Person” is any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind.
D. “Truck” is any vehicle designed or operated for the transportation of property, and whose body weight or whose combined body and load weight or whose rated capacity exceeds 15,000 pounds and/or exceeding 96 inches in width, or a truck-tractor, truck and trailer combination, or truck and semi-trailer combination, and all vehicles transporting radioactive, explosive or other hazardous cargo.
E. “Truck route” is 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. 1668 § 2 (part), 2018).
10.10.020 Application of regulation.
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. (Ord. 1668 § 2 (part), 2018).
10.10.030 Exceptions.
This chapter shall not prohibit:
A. 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;
B. Emergency Vehicles. The operation of emergency vehicles upon any street in the city;
C. 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;
D. 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. 1668 § 2 (part), 2018).
10.10.040 Truck route established.
A. There is established within the city the following truck routes:
1. I-90;
2. State Route 202 (Bendigo Boulevard);
3. North Bend Way from the western city limits to the eastern city limits, except between Bendigo Boulevard and Ballarat Avenue;
4. 436th Avenue NE;
5. 468th Avenue NE;
6. NW 8th Street from West North Bend Way to SR-202;
7. South Fork Avenue SW;
8. SW Mount Si Boulevard;
9. Ballarat Avenue North and NE;
10. NE 12th Street (SE 108th Street) from Ballarat Avenue to Pickett Avenue NE;
11. Boalch Avenue NW;
12. SE Mount Si Road; and
13. SE Middle Fork Road, east of 468th Avenue;
B. All trucks entering the city for destination points outside the city shall operate only over and along the routes designated in this section. (Ord. 1668 § 2 (part), 2018).
10.10.050 Truck traffic in the city – Outside origin.
A. 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 nearest to the designation point. Upon leaving the destination point, a deviating truck shall return to the truck route by the shortest permissible route.
B. 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 nearest to the first destination point. Upon leaving the first destination point, a deviating truck shall proceed to other destination points by the shortest direction. Upon leaving the last destination point, a deviating truck shall return to the truck route by the shortest permissible route. (Ord. 1668 § 2 (part), 2018).
10.10.060 Truck traffic in city – Inside origin.
A. 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.
B. 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 as provided in NBMC 10.10.050. (Ord. 1668 § 2 (part), 2018).
10.10.070 Maps.
The city engineer 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 engineer and shall be available to the public. (Ord. 1668 § 2 (part), 2018).
10.10.080 Signs.
The public works director or city engineer shall cause appropriate signs to be posted and created along the truck routes to designate and locate said truck routes. The chief of police and police department shall monitor all truck routes and those streets upon which truck traffic is prohibited shall be clearly signposted to give notice that this chapter is in effect. (Ord. 1668 § 2 (part), 2018).
10.10.090 Weigh-in.
The chief of police or other city police officer 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. 1668 § 2 (part), 2018).
10.10.100 Violation – Penalty.
Violation of or failure to comply with any of the penal provisions of this chapter shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $250.00. Each instance of noncompliance shall be considered a separate violation. In addition to any penalty for violation of the provisions of this chapter, such violator shall be liable in a civil action instituted in the name of the city for any damages occasioned to any city street as the result of such violation. (Ord. 1668 § 2 (part), 2018).
Prior legislation: Ords. 910 and 1497.