Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 10.40 Truck Routes

A. Whenever any provision of this Title designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a truck route, the Traffic Engineer is authorized to designate such street or streets by appropriate signs.

B. When any such truck route or routes are established and designated by appropriate signs, no operator of a commercial vehicle, as defined in California Vehicle Code Section 260, Subd. (a), exceeding a maximum unladen weight, as that term is defined in California Vehicle Code Sections 660 and 661, of three (3) tons shall operate or park, and no vehicle for hire or advertised for hire shall park, along any other route or routes. This Section shall not apply to pickup trucks as that term is defined in California Vehicle Code Section 471. Nothing in this Section shall prohibit such vehicle from coming from a truck route having ingress and egress by direct route to and from restricted streets when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on such restricted streets, or the immediate loading and unloading of passengers, or from parking in designated areas such as taxi zones or bus zones, 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 such restricted streets.

C. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission; or any vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility; or trucks used for the transportation of explosives.

D. Those streets and portions of streets described in Section 10.40.030 are declared to be truck routes for the movement of commercial vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three (3) tons.

(ORD-09-0006, § 1, 2009; ORD-07-0042 § 1, 2007; prior code § 3410.116)

In accordance with the provisions of Section 31614 of the California Vehicle Code, no person shall operate any vehicle transporting explosives over any roadway in the City other than those designated by the Traffic Engineer or those for which a special permit has been approved by the Chief of the Fire Department of the City.

(Prior code § 3410.118)

A. For the purpose of Section 10.40.010, the following streets, and portions of streets, are truck routes:

1. Anaheim Street, from the west City limits to the Long Beach Freeway;

2. Bellflower Boulevard, from Pacific Coast Highway to the north City limits at Del Amo Boulevard;

3. Carson Street, from Cherry Avenue to the San Gabriel River, excluding those portions outside the City;

4. Cherry Avenue, from the north City limits to the northerly boundary of the City of Signal Hill, and from the southerly boundary of the City of Signal Hill to Pacific Coast Highway;

5. Lakewood Boulevard, from the north City limits to Los Alamitos Traffic Circle;

6. Long Beach Boulevard, from the north City limits to Ocean Boulevard;

7. Ninth Street, from its westerly terminus to Long Beach Freeway;

8. Norwalk Boulevard, from the north City limits to the south City limits;

9. Pacific Coast Highway, from the west City limits to the east City limits;

10. Paramount Boulevard, from the north City limits to South Street;

11. Santa Fe Avenue, from the Pacific Coast Highway to Ninth Street;

12. Seaside Boulevard, from the west City limits to Ocean Boulevard;

13. Seventh Street from Pacific Coast Highway to the east City limits;

14. South Street, from Cherry Avenue to the east City limits;

15. Spring Street, from Long Beach Boulevard to the westerly boundary of the City of Signal Hill, and from the easterly boundary of the City of Signal Hill to the east City limits;

16. Willow Street, from the west City limits to the Terminal Island Freeway, and from the Long Beach Freeway to the I-405 Freeway;

17. Those roads within the Harbor District specified in Resolution No. HD-946 of the Board of Harbor Commissioners.

(Ord. C-7037 § 1, 1992: Ord. C-6527 § 1, 1988; Ord. C-5822 §§ 1, 2, 1982; Ord. C-5806 § 1, 1982; Ord. C-5748 § 2, 1981; Ord. C-5638 § 2 (part), 1980; Ord. C-5546 § 2, 1979; Ord. C-5519 § 1, 1979; Ord. C-5359 § 1, 1977; Ord. C-5268 § 1 (part), 1976; prior code § 3410.125)