(A) No person shall operate or cause to be operated any commercial motor vehicle, truck-tractor, trailer, semi-trailer, pole trailer, or any combination thereof, having a total gross weight with load in excess of 8,000 lbs., within the corporate limits of the city, without a local destination or point of origin, except upon those streets as are designated as truck routes by Ch. 72, Sched. III.
(B) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE. Any motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, designed or used primarily for the transportation of property, including every vehicle used for delivery purposes.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Any vehicle, as herein defined, which is self-propelled.
POLE TRAILER. Any vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach or pole or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing vehicle and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads, such as poles, pipes, or structural members capable generally of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connection.
SEMI-TRAILER. Any vehicle of the trailer type so designed or used in conjunction with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and its own load rests upon or is carried by the motor vehicle.
TRAILER. Any vehicle without motive power designed or used for carrying property wholly on its own structure and to be drawn by a motor vehicle.
TRUCK-TRACTOR. Any motor vehicle designed or used primarily for drawing other vehicles, and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
VEHICLE. Every vehicle as defined in division (A), commercial motor vehicles, truck- tractors, trailers, and semi-trailers, severally, as herein defined.
(C) The foregoing divisions (A) and (B), and Ch. 72, Sched. III, however, shall not apply to any such vehicles having a gross weight with load in excess of 8,000 lbs. as follows:
(1) A vehicle traveling to or from a truck terminal, a commercial garage or commercial place of repair, place of performing a service, or a place of loading or unloading, over the shortest practicable route to or from a point on a truck route; any such vehicle shall be permitted to proceed from 1 such 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 those points; the operator of any such vehicle shall have in his or her possession for inspection by police officers his or her log book, delivery slips, or other bona fide evidence of its point of origin, the location of its last stop, and of its immediate destination in order for this exception to apply;
(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 that public utility or providing maintenance service to the facilities; or
(4) Vehicles owned by the city or operated for public service, i.e., garbage pickups for the city, school buses, street repair, and water service and maintenance.
(D) The Chief of Police or other person designated by him or her shall erect appropriate signs and markings to designate the truck routes established herein and to designate streets restricted to passenger vehicle traffic.
(E) Whenever any street designated as a truck route is being repaired or is otherwise temporarily out of use, the Chief of Police or other person designated by him or her is authorized to designate alternate truck routes for such a period as might be necessary.
(Ord. 182, passed 12-3-1984) Penalty, see § 70.99