(A) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
5W TRUCK ROUTE. An established route through certain town streets, as designated in this chapter over and along which trucks coming into and going out of the town must operate.
DESTINATION POINT. A point of stoppage to load or unload property being transported and to be delivered or picked up at the point.
DEVIATING TRUCK. A truck which leaves and departs from a truck route while traveling inside the town.
FARM TRUCK. A truck which is used for the transportation of agricultural products from the farm to a point of destination within the town, or the transportation of any commodity from the town to the farm.
TRUCK. A vehicle designed or operated for the transportation of property, and whose body weight or whose combined body and load weight exceeds 30,000 pounds registered gross weight.
(B) Application generally. All trucks traveling within the town shall be operated only over and along the truck routes established in this section or as otherwise designated.
(C) Enforcement. The town’s Clerk-Treasurer shall keep and maintain any truck maps setting out truck routes and streets upon which truck traffic is permitted. The map shall be kept in the office of the town’s Clerk-Treasurer and shall be available to the public.
(D) Town police maintain signs. The Town Marshal shall cause all truck routes and those streets upon which truck traffic is prohibited to be clearly marked and posted to give notice that this section is in effect.
(E) Marshal/police, authority to weigh trucks. The Town Marshal shall have the authority to require any persons driving or in control of any commercial vehicle not proceeding over a truck route or street over which the truck traffic is permitted to proceed to any public or private scale for the purpose of weighing and determining whether this section has been complied with.
(F) Exceptions. This section shall not prohibit:
(1) Operation on street of destination. The established truck route must be utilized until reaching the intersection nearest the destination point.
(2) Emergency vehicles. The operation of emergency vehicles upon any street in the town.
(3) Public vehicles. The operation of trucks owned or operated by the town, public utilities, any contractor or material worker hired by the town and engaged in repair, maintenance, or construction of the streets, street improvements, or street utilities within the town.
(4) Detoured trucks. The operation of trucks upon an officially established detour in any case where such truck can lawfully be operated upon the street for which such detour is established.
(5) Loading or unloading. The operation of trucks in the town for the purpose of loading or unloading any cargo or part of cargo. The established truck route must be utilized unless the act of loading and unloading, not merely the transportation to load or unload, requires a deviation.
(6) Service or repair. The operation of a truck for the purpose of having such truck serviced or repaired.
(7) Farm trucks. The operation of farm trucks within the town.
(Ord. 2015-03, passed 4-20-2015) Penalty, see § 71.99