§ 10.60.020. Truck routes, weight and length.

(a)

Weight. It is unlawful for the operator of any moving van, dump truck, tank truck used or designed for the purpose of transporting petroleum products, or any vehicle or combination of vehicles designed or used for the transportation of commodities or materials, which vehicle exceeds a maximum gross weight rating of ten thousand pounds, to operate the vehicle upon any street other than upon and over a truck route for any purpose other than to make a pickup or delivery, or to service or secure repairs to the vehicle. In traveling to or from the point of delivery, pickup, service to or repair of the vehicle, the operator of the vehicle shall drive as far as possible upon and over a truck route.

(b)

Length. It is unlawful for the operator of any combination of vehicles coupled together, to operate the combination of vehicles upon any CITY street other than upon and over a terminal access route, when the combination of vehicles including attachments, exceeds a total length of sixty-five feet, or a combination of vehicles coupled together, including attachments, which consists of a truck trailer, semitrailer, and a semitrailer or trailer, exceeds a total length of seventy-five feet, if the length of neither the semitrailers nor the trailer in the combination of vehicles exceeds twenty-eight feet six inches.

The load upon any combination of vehicles shall be measured from the front of the vehicle or load to the rear extremity of the last vehicle or load.

(c)

Exemptions. Nothing herein shall be construed to conflict with the exceptions listed in the California Vehicle Code Sections 35400—35414 nor prevent the driving and operating of fire apparatus upon any streets of the city nor shall this chapter, by its terms, prevent equipment owned by the city from being operated upon any of the streets of the city. Neither shall this chapter by its terms be construed to apply to the moving of houses, buildings or structures upon and over the streets of the city. The provisions of this section shall not apply to:

(1)

Passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission; or

(2)

Any vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility.

(d)

Designation by Council. The council is authorized to determine and designate truck routes by resolution, which designation shall become effective when appropriate signs are in place giving notice of the designations to the public.

(Ord. No. 896B , §§ 2, 3(10.60.025), 3-24-2015)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 896B , § 2, adopted March 24, 2015, repealed § 10.60.020 in its entirety. Section 3 of same ordinance enacted a new § 10.60.025, which was redesignated as § 10.60.020 at the discretion of the editor, to read as set out herein. Former § 10.60.020 pertained to truck routes and derived from Ord. 513B § 10(part), adopted in 1987 and Ord. 344B § 13.2, adopted in 1978. Section of Ord. No. 896B.