A. All common, contract, or private motor carriers who operate through the city or pick up or receive in any manner, goods, wares or merchandise commonly called freight at any freight terminal, retail or wholesale business, warehouse or manufacturing plant, for delivery outside the city, or who deliver to any freight terminal, retail or wholesale business, warehouse or manufacturing plant, any goods, wares or merchandise commonly called freight in the city, and all vehicles having a total weight, including vehicle and load in excess of the weights described in section 17-30 of this chapter, shall be permitted to use the following named thoroughfares within the corporate limits of the city, and no others; provided, however, that they may leave the following truck routes only by the nearest route to their destination point and shall deviate only at the intersection with a thoroughfare, on which such traffic is permitted, nearest to the destination point. Upon leaving the destination point, deviating trucks shall return to the truck route by the shortest route. No such vehicle shall park on any of the designated truck routes nor on any parking lot, garage or empty lot, nor on any thoroughfares upon which it must travel to arrive at a truck route except as may be necessary to load, unload, deliver, or make a service call, or except as may be necessary in an emergency.
B. All vehicles entering the city for multiple destination points shall proceed only over established truck routes and shall deviate only at the intersection with the thoroughfares, upon which such traffic is permitted, nearest to the first destination point. Upon leaving the first destination point, the deviating vehicle shall return to the truck route by the shortest route. All vehicles 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 to a truck route as herein established. All vehicles, on a trip originating in the city for destination points in the city, shall proceed over the truck route to the fullest extent possible under the circumstances; and provided further, that no local thoroughfare not herein designated as a truck route shall be used if the destination can be reached by use of a truck route. No such vehicle shall park on any of the designated truck routes nor on any parking lot, garage or empty lot, nor on any thoroughfare upon which it must travel to arrive at a truck route except as may be necessary to load, unload, deliver, or make a service call, or except as may be necessary in an emergency. The established truck routes for the city of Eloy are:
1. State Route 84 (otherwise known as Frontier Street and/or as the Casa Grande/Picacho Highway);
2. Toltec Road from its intersection with State Route 84 to Pretzer Road;
3. Tweedy Road (also known as Tumbleweed Road) from north of the Eloy municipal airport to its intersection with State Route 84;
4. Houser Road from its intersection with Toltec Road to its intersection with Eleven Mile Corner Road;
5. Sunland Gin Road from the northernmost city boundary to its intersection with Houser Road;
6. Battaglia Drive from its intersection with State Route 84 to its intersection with Toltec Road;
7. Eleven Mile Corner Road from its intersection with Houser Road to its intersection with Alsdorf Road;
8. Sunshine Boulevard from its intersection with Battaglia Road to its intersection with Interstate 10;
9. Alsdorf Road from its intersection with Eleven Mile Corner Road to its intersection with Toltec Road.
C. The city council and/or city manager may, from time to time, designate new and additional thoroughfares as truck routes or delete thoroughfares as truck routes, either temporarily or permanently. (Ord. 84-216 § 1, 4-9-1984; Ord. 86-256 § 1, 4-28-1986; Ord. 95-395, 7-24-1995; Ord. 99-463, 5-12-1999; Ord. 99-473, 11-8-1999; Ord. 00-488, 5-8-2000)