339.01 Maximum axle load, wheel load and gross weights; towing connection length.
339.02 Use of local streets; local permit and conditions.
339.021 Operation of vehicle on highways in excess of prescribed weights forbidden.
339.022 Weight of load; width of tire.
339.023 Maximum axle load, wheel load, gross weights, for pneumatic tired vehicles.
339.024 Maximum axle load, wheel load, and gross weights for solid tired vehicles.
339.025 Weight provisions for farm and log trucks and farm machinery.
339.03 Maximum width, height and length.
339.031 Reduction of weight and speed during times of thaw and moisture.
339.04 Route and load information.
339.041 Statement of gross vehicle weight.
339.05 Wheel protectors.
339.06 Vehicles transporting explosives.
339.07 Towing requirements.
339.08 Loads dropping or leaking, removal required; tracking mud.
339.09 Shifting load; loose loads.
339.10 Vehicles with spikes, lugs and chains.
339.11 Use of studded tires and chains.
339.12 Weighing vehicles; scales to be used; removal of excess load; alteration of weight limits.
339.13 Pleasant Valley Bridge load limit.
339.14 Civil liability.
339.15 Notice of arrest.
339.16 Issuance of special permits.
339.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
See sectional histories for similar State law
Weighing vehicle; removal of excess load - see Ohio R.C. 4513.33
Arrest notice of driver - see Ohio R.C. 5577.14
Slower moving vehicles to be driven in right-hand lane - see TRAF. 331.01(b)
No vehicle, trackless trolley, load, object or structure having a maximum axle load greater than 20,000 pounds shall be operated or moved upon improved public highways, streets, bridges or culverts. The maximum wheel load of any one wheel of any such vehicle shall not exceed 650 pounds per inch width of pneumatic tire, measured as prescribed by Ohio R.C. 5577.03.
(a) The weight of vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface by vehicles with pneumatic tires shall not exceed the following:
(1) By any two successive axles, spaced four feet or less apart, and weighed simultaneously, 24,000 pounds;
(2) By any two successive axles, spaced more than four feet apart, and weighed simultaneously, 34,000 pounds, plus 1,000 pounds per foot, or fraction thereof, over four feet, not to exceed 40,000 pounds.
(b) The weight of vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface by vehicles with pneumatic tires, by any three successive load-bearing axles designed to equalize the load between such axles and spaced so that each such axle of the three-axle group is more than four feet from the next axle in the three-axle group and so that the spacing between the first axle and the third axle of the three-axle group is more than nine feet, shall be computed using either of the following methods:
(1) Such load-bearing three-axle group shall be weighed simultaneously as a unit and shall not exceed 48,000 pounds. The total weight of vehicle and load shall not exceed 38,000 pounds plus an additional 900 pounds for each foot of spacing between the front axle and the rearmost axle of the vehicle provided, that the total weight of the vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface shall not exceed 80,000 pounds.
(2) Such load-bearing three-axle group shall be weighed simultaneously as a unit and shall not exceed 42,500 pounds. The total weight of vehicle and load of a six-axle vehicle combination, with at least twenty feet of spacing between the front axle and rearmost axle, shall not exceed 54,000 pounds plus an additional 600 pounds for each foot of spacing between the front axle and the rearmost axle of the vehicle, provided, that the total weight of the vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface shall not exceed 80,000 pounds.
The total weight of vehicle and load utilizing any combination of axles, other than as provided for three-axle groups in subsection (b) hereof, shall not exceed 38,000 pounds plus an additional 900 pounds for each foot of spacing between the front axle and rearmost axle of the vehicle, provided that the total weight of a vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface by vehicles with pneumatic tires shall not exceed 80,000 pounds.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when a vehicle is towing another vehicle, such drawbar or other connection shall be of a length such as shall limit the spacing between nearest axles of the respective vehicles to a distance not in excess of twelve feet and six inches.
(c) The owner of said vehicle and or the operator of said vehicle and/or any other responsible party who contributes; aids, and abets in any violation of this provision of this section on a first offense is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree; on a second offense within two years after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree; on each subsequent offense within five years after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (Ord. 2005-119. Passed 12-8-05.)
(a) Use of Local Streets. No person shall operate a vehicle exceeding a size as specified in Section 339.03
, or exceeding a gross weight of four tons, upon any street in the Municipality except:
(1) State routes; or
(2) Those local streets designated as a truck route and marked as such by appropriate traffic signs; or
(3) Bishop Road, whereupon no person shall operate a vehicle exceeding a gross weight of six tons; or
(4) When such operation is necessary to load or unload property to or from the usual place of storage of such vehicle within the City or perform any other legitimate business or act other than passage through the Municipality. Operators of vehicles so deviating from either a State route or designated truck route within the Municipality shall confine such deviation to that required in order to accomplish the purpose of the departure.
(b) Local Permit and Conditions. Upon application and for good cause, the Police Chief may issue a local permit authorizing an applicant to move an oversize or overweight vehicle or combination of vehicles upon local streets.
No permittee shall be required to obtain a special permit from the Ohio Director of Transportation for the movement of the vehicle or combination of vehicles on streets or highways under local jurisdiction; however, the approval of the Ohio Director of Transportation shall be required for movement upon State routes as provided in Section 339.01.
The Police Chief may grant a permit for a single or round trip, or for such period of time, not to exceed one year, as the Police Chief in his discretion deems advisable, or for the duration of any construction project. The Police Chief may limit or prescribe terms or conditions of operation for such vehicle or combination of vehicles by designating the route, hours, speed or such other restrictions as may be necessary for the preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety. The Police Chief may require the posting of bond or other security necessary to compensate for any damage to a roadway or road structure.
For each such permit, the Police Chief shall charge ten dollars ($10.00), and for each hour of time or any part thereof spent by each police officer in supervising the movement of such vehicle, the applicant shall pay the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per hour per officer. The charge can be prorated into fifteen minute increments.
Signs shall be posted indicating "no thru trucks - gross weight 5 tons" or words of similar import to apprise drivers of the limitations imposed by this section. No driver shall disobey the instructions indicated on any such sign.
Violation of any of the limitations, terms or conditions of the permit granted by the Police Chief shall be cause for immediate revocation or suspension of such permit, and denial of request for any future permit. Such violation shall also subject the violator to the penalty prescribed by Section 303.99.
(c) Certain Vehicles Prohibited on Worrell Road and Bishop Road.
(1) For purposes of this subsection “Commercial tractor” means every motor vehicle having motor power designed or used for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon, or designed or used for drawing other vehicles while carrying a portion of such other vehicle or vehicles, or the load thereon or both.
“Commercial car” means every motor vehicle having motor power designed and used for carrying merchandise or freight, or for carrying more than seven persons, or used as a commercial tractor.
“Trailer” means any vehicle without motive power designed or used for carrying property or persons wholly on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle, and includes any such vehicle when formed by or operated as a combination of a semitrailer and a vehicle of the dolly type such as that commonly known as a trailer dolly, and a vehicle used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a public road or highway at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour, except the manufactured home and travel trailer.
“Semitrailer” means any vehicle of the trailer type without motive power so designed or used with another and separate motor vehicle that in operation a part of its own weight or that of its load, or both, rest upon and is carried by such other vehicle furnishing the motive power for propelling itself and the vehicle referred to herein.
(2) No person, firm or corporation shall drive any commercial tractor or commercial car designed or used for the transportation of goods, wares, merchandise, rubbish, garbage, freight, or products of any kind, upon Worrell Road, between US Route 6 and the Municipal corporation line; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be construed to prohibit the use of Worrell Road by commercial tractors or commercial cars while receiving goods or making deliveries thereon.
(3) No person, firm or corporation shall drive, use or operate any “commercial tractor”, “trailer” or “semitrailer” alone or formed in any combination, when designed or used for the transportation of goods, wares, merchandise, rubbish, garbage, freight or products of any kind, upon Bishop Road; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be construed to prohibit the use of Bishop Road by commercial tractors while receiving goods or making deliveries thereon.
(d) The owner of said vehicle and or the operator of said vehicle and/or any other responsible party who contributes; aids, and abets in any violation of this provision of this section on a first offense is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree; on a second offense within two years after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree; on each subsequent offense within five years after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (Ord. 2005-119. Passed 12-8-05.)
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