For the purpose of this article the word truck shall mean any vehicle designed or operated for the transportation of property, and whose body weight exceeds 7,000 pounds; provided this article shall not apply to school buses.

(Ord. 966; Ord. 972; Code 1998)

No trucks shall be operated over and along any of the streets hereinafter designated in this article over which truck travel is prohibited, except; however, that this article shall not prohibit:

(a)   The operation of trucks upon any street where necessary to the conduct of business at a point of origin or at a destination point, provided streets upon which truck traffic is permitted are used until reaching the intersection nearest the destination point or point of origin;

(b)   The operation of emergency vehicles upon any street in the city;

(c)   The operation of trucks owned or operated by the city public utilities or public utilities franchised by the city, or any contractor, while engaged in the repair, maintenance, or construction of public utilities, or in the repair, maintenance, construction or improvement of streets.

(Ord. 966; Code 1998)

Truck travel is hereby prohibited within the city on all streets, avenues, highways and public ways.

(Ord. 1582; Code 2011; Ord. 1685)

(a)   All trucks entering the city for a destination point in the city shall proceed only over streets on which truck travel is not prohibited and shall deviate only at the intersection with a street upon which such traffic is permitted nearest to the destination point. Upon leaving the destination point, a deviating truck shall return to a street on which truck travel is permitted by the shortest possible route.

(b)   All trucks entering the city for multiple destination points shall proceed only over streets on which truck travel is not prohibited and shall deviate only at the intersection with a street upon which such traffic is permitted nearest to the first destination point. Upon leaving the first destination point a deviating truck shall proceed to other destination points by the shortest possible route. Upon leaving the last destination point a deviating truck shall return to a street on which truck travel is permitted by the shortest possible route.

(c)   All trucks on a trip originating in the city and traveling in the city for a destination point outside the city shall proceed by the shortest direction over streets on which such traffic is permitted to the corporate limits of the city.

(d)   All trucks on a trip originating in the city and traveling in the city for destination points in the city shall proceed only over streets upon which such traffic is permitted.

(Ord. 966; Code 1998)

(Ord. 966; Code 1998; Ord. 1685)

(Ord. 966; Code 1998; Ord. 1685)

The chief of police shall have the authority to require any person driving, or in control of any commercial vehicle proceeding over a street which is prohibited to proceed to any public or private scale within a reasonable distance for the purpose of weighing and determining whether this article has been complied with.

(Ord. 966; Code 1998)