(a) The purpose of this Section is to establish procedures for terminal designation and truck route designation to terminals for overwidth and overlength trucks as defined by the California Vehicle Code when operating on a Federally designated highway system.
(b) An applicant is any interested person requiring terminal access from the Federal designated highway system. The applicant shall submit an application, on a form provided by the County Transportation Department with such information as may be required.
(c) TERMINAL means any facility at which freight is consolidated to be shipped or where full load consignments may be loaded and off-loaded or at which the vehicle combinations defined in Vehicle Code § 35401.5 are regularly maintained, stored or manufactured.
(d) County maintained roads or streets for which use is requested in the application will be investigated for the purpose of determining if said road(s) or street(s) are adequate to handle overwidth and overlength trucks as allowed by Vehicle Code §§ 35100 and 35401.5. The investigation may include, but not be limited to, turning radii, land width and public safety.
(e) Upon receipt of an application, the Road Commissioner shall investigate available highways to determine if a feasible route(s) appropriate for the passage of oversized trucks exists.
(f) If the Road Commissioner determines that a feasible route(s) appropriate for oversized trucks exists, then the Application shall be approved. The routes determined to be appropriate for oversized trucks will be marked with signs as established by the California Department of Transportation. Truck route signing will be posted by the County Transportation Department at decision points as determined by said Department.
(g) If all feasible routes to a requested terminal are found unsatisfactory by the investigation, the application shall be denied. Such denial will be accompanied with an identification of deficiencies.
(h) If the requested approved route passes through several jurisdictions, applicant shall comply with the application process for each jurisdiction. Coordination will be the responsibility of the jurisdiction in which the terminal is located.
(i) Subsequent to the approval and granting of a route to a terminal, the Road Commissioner may find the route to be unsatisfactory and thereafter revoke the designated terminal route or, at his or her discretion, designate an alternate route.
(j) Whenever the Road Commissioner determines that the terminal route is no longer appropriate, feasible or necessary, he or she shall deem the route no longer a truck route and order such route signs removed with written notice to the applicant.
(Ord. 596, passed - -1947; Am. Ord. 598, passed - -1947; Am. Ord. 702, passed - -1953; Am. Ord. 1119, passed - -1963; Am. Ord. 2203, passed - -1977; Am. Ord. 3395, passed - -1990)