(A) No trucks, other than pickup trucks and passenger trucks and vans, shall be allowed to operate on any posted town streets unless they must use the particular street in question for the purpose of local pickup or delivery. Posted streets are those which have signs on them indicating that their use by through trucks is prohibited.
(B) A truck route is established within the town whereby trucks or other vehicles exceeding ten tons gross weight shall be limited to the use of Maple Street/State Road 71. All other town streets and alleys are subject to a ten-ton gross weight limit.
(C) The operation of any vehicle otherwise restricted to the truck route is expressly prohibited on all non-truck routes unless making a delivery, pick-up, or service call within the town by means of the shortest route from or to truck route. The delivery, pick-up, or service call shall, at all times, be made by utilizing the most direct route to and from the designated truck route. This section shall be interpreted as requiring all vehicles restricted to operating on a truck route to entering and leaving the town on a truck route. Additionally, any vehicle restricted to operating on a truck route, which is traveling to or from the grain elevator, shall be permitted to drive upon Briarwood Avenue and Orchard Lane.
(D) The truck route limitations prescribed in this ordinance shall not apply to:
(1) Fire trucks or other emergency vehicles or vehicles on emergency business;
(2) Municipal and governmental owned vehicles;
(3) Construction or maintenance vehicles operated by any contractor while involved in a repair, construction, or maintenance of municipal property or systems;
(4) The operation of a vehicle upon any officially established detour;
(5) Garbage trucks while providing usual and contractual garbage and recycling services; or
(6) Vehicles that are traveling to or from the grain elevator and to the 100 block of Orchard Lane (fertilizer facility) may drive on that portion of Briarwood Avenue and Orchard Lane necessary to access those facilities.
(Ord. 2019-6-2, passed 6-11-2019) Penalty, see § 71.99