(A) Use required. Except as otherwise provided herein, no person shall operate or cause to be operated upon any public street within the corporate limits of the city any commercial motor vehicle, truck-tractor, trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer or any combination thereof, except on such street or streets as are designated as truck routes. Such vehicles shall be operated on a truck route wherever reasonably practicable to fulfill the purpose for which such vehicle is then being operated.
(B) Exceptions. The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
(1) A vehicle traveling to or from a truck terminal, garage, place of repair, place of performing a service, or a place of loading or unloading, over the shortest practicable route to a point on a truck route. Any such vehicle shall be permitted to proceed from one point not on a truck route to another such point without returning to a truck route if to so return would unreasonably increase the distance to be traveled between such points. The operators of any such vehicles shall carry evidence of the location of its last stop and its immediate destination.
(2) Emergency vehicles operating in response to any emergency call.
(3) Vehicles operated by a public utility while cruising in an assigned area for the purpose of inspecting the facilities of such public utility or providing maintenance service to such facilities.
(4) Vehicles operated for public service, such as garbage pickup, street repair, and water service.
(C) Signs. The City Manager or designee shall erect appropriate signs and markings to designate the truck routes.
(D) Alternative routes. Whenever any a truck route is being repaired or is otherwise temporarily out of use, the City Manager or designee is hereby authorized to designate alternate truck routes for such period as might be necessary.
(Ord. 983, passed 10-17-20)