Truck Routes

3.12.680 Regulation of operation of vehicles over a certain size. (a) Weight Limitations. It shall be unlawful for any vehicle having a gross weight, including load, in excess of three tons to be operated on any street within this City except those streets defined in subsections (b) and (c) as primary or secondary truck routes, except when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares, and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on the restricted street or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling, or construction of any building or structure upon the restricted street for which a building permit has previously been obtained. (b) Primary Truck Route. The primary truck route is to be used for all inter-City and interstate truck traffic and shall be as follows: (1) The Santa Monica Freeway. (2) Olympic Boulevard. (3) The Pacific Coast Highway. (4) Lincoln Boulevard, from Olympic Boulevard to the southerly City limits. (c) Secondary Truck Routes. The secondary truck routes are to be used by trucks transporting merchandise, materials, or equipment having an origin or destination within the City limits and are as follows: (1) Montana Avenue, from Seventh Street to Twenty-Sixth Street. (2) Santa Monica Boulevard. (3) Colorado Avenue. (4) Broadway, from Ocean Avenue to Twenty-Sixth Street. (5) Exposition Boulevard. (6) Pico Boulevard, from Ocean Avenue to the easterly City limits. (7) Ocean Park Boulevard, from Lincoln Boulevard to the easterly City limits. (8) Ocean Avenue, from Santa Monica Boulevard to Pico Boulevard. (9) Neilson Way. (10) Main Street, from Pico Boulevard to the southerly City limits. (11) Lincoln Boulevard, from Montana Avenue to Olympic Boulevard. (12) Eleventh Street, from Pico Boulevard to Santa Monica Boulevard. (13) Fourteenth Street, from Ocean Park Boulevard to Montana Avenue. (14) Seventeenth Street, from Pico Boulevard to Santa Monica Boulevard. (15) Twentieth Street, from Pico Boulevard to Montana Avenue. (16) Cloverfield Boulevard except between Pico Boulevard and Ocean Park Boulevard. (17) Twenty-Sixth Street except between Montana Avenue and the northerly City Limits. (18) Stewart Street. (d) Deviation from Established Routes. When it becomes necessary for any vehicle to deviate from the primary or secondary truck routes as permitted by subsection (a), such deviation shall be made by way of the shortest possible route or routes between the destination on the restricted street and the nearest streets described in subsections (b) and (c). (e) Exemptions for Governmental Vehicles and City Licensed Private Vehicles. This Section shall not apply to vehicles owned or operated by any Federal, State, county, or local governmental agency while such vehicles are being used in the performance of their duties. (f) Codification. This Section, insofar as it designates truck routes, is a codification of Ordinance Number 709(CCS). (Prior code 3359; amended by Ord. No. 1479CCS, adopted 5/9/89; Ord. No. 1781CCS § 1, adopted 11/29/94; Ord. No. 2587CCS § 1, adopted 9/11/18)