(A) Except as provided in divisions (B), (C), (D) and (F), it shall be unlawful for the operator of any truck to travel upon any street or public way which is not a truck route within the city.
(B) The operation of a truck is only permitted on the local street for pick-up, delivery or service if there is a destination within the city which is not on a truck route or local delivery route, and provided that ingress and egress thereto or therefrom is accomplished in the following manner:
(1) Trucks must utilize designated truck routes and local delivery routes to the point closest to delivery, pick-up or service.
(2) Upon leaving or returning to the truck route, trucks must utilize the shortest route available via local delivery routes whenever possible and then utilize local streets only when necessary for the completion of the delivery, pick-up or service.
(3) The operator with a pick-up or delivery to a location on a local street must stay on a truck route or local delivery route until the point that they are physically closest to that location, and at that time, may travel by a local street to that location. Upon making their pick-up or delivery of goods, they must return to a truck route or local delivery route using the physically shortest distance over local streets.
(C) A truck may travel on a local delivery route if the truck has either a destination or a point of origin within the city. Thru trucks may not use a local delivery route.
(D) An operator of a truck engaged in making a pre-planned series of deliveries or pick-ups may proceed to the subsequent pick-up or delivery using local streets, if the distance from the first location off the permissive truck route or local delivery route to the last location off the permissive truck route or local delivery route is not greater than nine city blocks.
(E) The operator of any truck subject to this chapter and that travels on a local street or local delivery route shall maintain in the truck a drop ticket, destination log, manifest, bill of lading or other writing, in plain English, prepared for that day. The operator shall produce said document or log if stopped by a law enforcement officer while driving on a city street which is a local street or local delivery route. In the event the operator of the truck cannot produce such document, then a citation for violating this section shall be issued.
(F) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the operator of a truck may operate said truck upon any detour officially established as a substitute for those streets identified as truck routes in § 73.30; or, by direction of any law enforcement officer; or pursuant to any special temporary emergency use permit issued by the Controller's office.
(Ord. G-16-05, passed 8-25-05) Penalty, see § 73.99