(A) Whenever, by ordinance of the Council, any street or portion thereof is designated as a truck route the use of such street by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons is thereby permitted. The City Engineer is authorized to post such streets, with appropriate signs or markings which shall be visible from a distance of 200 feet, as “truck routes” for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons.
(B) When any such truck route or routes are established and so designated by appropriate signs or markings, the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons shall drive on such route or routes. The operation of any vehicle described herein on any street or portion thereof which is not designated as a truck route is an infraction under this code.
(C) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator of a vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons traveling from a truck route having ingress or egress, by a direct route, to and from restricted streets when necessary for the purpose of making pick ups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise to or from any building, structure or lot located on such streets, or for the delivering of materials in the repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon such street for which a building permit has previously been issued.
(D) The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
(1) Passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission under Cal. Pub. Util. Code §§ 1031 through 1036; or
(2) Any vehicle owned, leased, or operated by a public utility or licensed contractor while necessarily in use for the purpose of construction, installation or repair of any public utility.
(E) Those streets or portions thereof established by ordinance of the Council are declared to be truck routes for the purpose of movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons.
('81 Code, § 10.32.040) (Ord. 756, passed - -81) Penalty, see § 70.99
Statutory reference:
Vehicle weight limits, see Cal. Veh. Code §§ 35700 et seq.