7-5-8: WHEEL, AXLE LOADS, GROSS WEIGHTS:
   (A)   No vehicle or combination of vehicles equipped with pneumatic tires shall be operated unladen or with load, upon any public way in the village when the gross weight on the road surface through any axle thereon exceeds eighteen thousand (18,000) pounds, except a two (2) axle motor vehicle which shall not exceed twenty four thousand (24,000) pounds on the rear axle.
   (B)   No vehicle or combination of vehicles equipped with other than pneumatic tires shall be operated, unladen or with load, upon any public way in the village when the gross weight on the road surface through any wheel thereof exceeds eight hundred (800) pounds per inch width of tire tread or when the gross weight on the road surface through any axle thereof exceeds sixteen thousand (16,000) pounds.
   (C)   An "axle load" shall be defined as the total load transmitted to the road by all wheels whose centers may be included between two (2) parallel transverse vertical planes forty inches (40") or less apart extending across the full width of the vehicle.
   (D)   Any two (2) consecutive axles whose centers are more than forty inches (40") and not more than seventy two inches (72") apart, measured to the nearest inch, shall be defined as tandem axles, and the gross weight transmitted to the road surface through axles so spaced shall not exceed sixteen thousand (16,000) pounds per axle.
   (E)   The gross weight of all vehicles and combinations of vehicles, including the weight of the vehicle or combination and its maximum load, operated upon any public way in this village shall be subject to the foregoing limitations and further shall not exceed the following:
2-axle motor vehicle
36,000
3 or more axle motor vehicle
41,000
3-axle truck tractor semitrailer combination
45,000
4-axle truck and trailer combination
63,000
5 or more axle truck and trailer combination
72,000
5 or more axle truck tractor semitrailer combination when transporting loads that cannot reasonably be dismantled or disassembled
72,000
Trailers
36,000
Vehicles operating on caterpillar type trucks
40,000
 
(1956 Code, Sec. 14-90)