Chapter 10.20 — COMMERCIAL VEHICLES

§ 10.20.010. Parking or driving commercial vehicles over 6,000 pounds (three tons) prohibited except on certain streets.

• A. No person shall drive or park a commercial vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of 6,000 pounds (three tons) on any street within the city except for the following streets:

  1. Buskirk Avenue;

  2. Contra Costa Boulevard;

  3. Geary Road;

  4. Gregory Lane;

  5. Grayson Road between Pleasant Hill Road and Taylor Boulevard;

  6. Monument Boulevard;

  7. North Main Street;

  8. Pleasant Hill Road, north of Gregory Lane;

  9. Taylor Boulevard.

• B. For purposes of this section, a commercial vehicle is a vehicle used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation, or profit or designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.

• (1991 code § 8-5.1; Ord. 714 § 1, 1997)

The city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected by designating the streets identified in PHMC § 10.20.010 as permitted routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a minimum gross weight limit of 6,000 pounds (three tons). (1991 code § 8-5.2; Ord. 714 § 1, 1997)

The following vehicles are excepted from the provisions of PHMC § 10.20.010:

• A. A passenger bus under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission;

• B. A vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of a public utility;

• C. A vehicle making a pickup or delivery of goods, wares or merchandise from or to property located on a restricted street, or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of a building on a restricted street, for which a building permit has been obtained;

3. Prior legislation: Portions of 1978 code §§ 8.32.760, 8.32.770 and Ords. 57 and 651.

• D. An emergency vehicle, recreational motor home, or garbage truck operating under a current franchise agreement with the city.

(1991 code § 8-5.3; Ord. 714 § 1, 1997)

Subject to the exceptions in PHMC § 10.20.050, commercial vehicles will be regulated by city council resolution, which is on file in the police department. (1991 code § 8-5.4; Ord. 651 § 1, 1990)

In addition to vehicles excepted from coverage by state law, emergency vehicles, recreational motor homes and garbage trucks operating under a current franchise agreement with the city are excepted from the weight restrictions in PHMC § 10.20.030. (1991 code § 8-5.5; Ord. 651 § 1, 1990)