(A) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
POLE TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach, or pole, or by being ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads, such as poles, pipes, logs or structural members capable, generally of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connections.
SEMI-TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power, other than pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle, except for the towing connection.
TRUCK. Every commercial motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property, and designed for, or having a manufacturer’s rated cargo capacity of 2,000 pounds or more and/or gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or more.
TRUCK ROUTES. Those routes which are designated by this section for the use of truck traffic.
TRUCK TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
TRUCK TRAFFIC. The operation of any commercial truck or any combination of a truck tractor, trailer, semi-trailer or pole trailer.
(B) Trucks confined thereto; exception to family vehicles. No person, firm, company or corporation shall operate truck traffic upon any roads, avenues, streets or thoroughfares within the corporate limits of the city, except on those which are designated as truck routes in Ch. 71, Sch. I; provided that, where any truck is the sole transportation of a family, it may be operated on any public thoroughfare within the city when absolutely empty of any type of cargo and for family business and purposes exclusively.
(C) Proceeding to truck route. The provisions of division (B) above notwithstanding, in those instances where any truck traffic, originating within the corporate limits of the city, shall have as its point of origin a point located off a designated truck route by the most direct route possible. If the traffic shall originate outside the corporate limits of the city and enter the city at a point which is not on a designated truck route, it shall proceed to the nearest point on a designated truck route by the most direct route possible.
(D) Departing to proceed to or from terminal. Vehicles restricted to truck routes may depart from a point on the designated truck route for the purpose of traveling to and from a truck terminal; provided that, the vehicle proceeds by the most direct route to or from the applicable truck terminal.
(E) Departing for pickup or delivery. Truck traffic restricted to streets designated as truck routes may depart from the truck routes where it is necessary to load or unload at location or locations situated off designated truck routes; provided, however, the truck traffic shall not leave any designated truck route which is nearest the applicable place of loading or unloading by the most direct route possible.
(F) Erection of signs. The City Manager shall cause to be erected appropriate signs and markings advising motorists of the truck routes established by this section, but it is specifically provided that the absence of the signs and markings shall not affect the validity of this section or the enforcement of the provisions hereof.
(G) Alternate routes. Whenever a street or roadway designated as a truck route is under repair, or otherwise temporarily out of use, the City Manager shall be authorized to designate alternate truck routes.
(H) Effective date. This section shall be effective from and after its passage and the publication of the caption of the ordinance codified herein.
(Ord. passed 11-15-1994) Penalty, see § 70.99