Torrance Municipal Code Art. 9 Truck Routes

a) Any commercial vehicle exceeding the maximum gross weight of eight thousand (8,000) pounds is hereby prohibited from using any street in the City of Torrance except as hereinafter provided.

b) A commercial vehicle is a vehicle of a type required to be registered under the Vehicle Code of the State of California used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation, or profit or designed, used and maintained primarily for the transportation of property.

c) Passenger vehicles which are not used for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation, or profit and house cars are not commercial vehicles.

(Amended by O-3192; O-3759)

Any commercial vehicle exceeding the maximum gross weight of eight thousand (8,000) pounds may use the following:

a) Anza Avenue between the northerly City limits and Sepulveda Boulevard;

b) Arlington Avenue between the southerly City limits and Sepulveda Boulevard;

c) Artesia Boulevard between the easterly and westerly City limits;

d) Cabrillo Avenue between Torrance and Sepulveda Boulevards;

e) Carson Street between the easterly City limits and Anza Avenue;

f) Crenshaw Boulevard between the northerly and southerly City limits;

g) Del Amo Boulevard between the westerly City limits and Hawthorne Boulevard;

h) Hawthorne Boulevard between the northerly and southerly City limits;

i) Lomita Boulevard between the easterly City limits and Hawthorne Boulevard;

j) Pacific Coast Highway between the easterly and westerly City limits;

k) Palos Verdes Boulevard between the southerly City limits and Sepulveda Boulevard;

l) Redondo Beach Boulevard (eastbound only) between the easterly and westerly City limits;

m) Sepulveda Boulevard between the easterly and westerly City limits;

n) Torrance Boulevard between the easterly and westerly City limits;

o) Van Ness Avenue between 190th Street and Torrance Boulevard;

p) Western Avenue between the northerly and southerly City limits;

q) 182nd Street from Crenshaw Boulevard easterly to the San Diego Freeway;

r) 190th Street between the easterly and westerly City limits;

s) Prairie Avenue between 190th Street and Del Amo Boulevard;

t) Del Amo Boulevard between Prairie Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard.

The intention of this Article is to provide passage routes in the City of Torrance for commercial vehicles exceeding eight thousand (8,000) pounds on the foregoing streets only. The City of Torrance shall cause to be erected and maintained appropriate signs within the City designating as truck routes those streets over which commercial vehicles exceeding eight thousand (8,000) gross pounds may be driven. This Article shall be effective at such time as said signs have been erected. The City Clerk shall keep and maintain accurate maps available to the public setting out streets upon which traffic is permitted by commercial vehicles exceeding eight thousand (8,000) gross pounds.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Article, nothing herein shall be deemed to prohibit any vehicle from traveling on a restricted street if:

a) The vehicle is operating as a public passenger carrier under a certificate of convenience and necessity issued under the authority of the Public Utilities Code.

b) The street being driven upon is included in the national system of interstate or defense highways unless such restriction on said highway be approved by the California Highway Commission by a four-fifths vote.

c) The street is a State highway and this Article has not been approved in writing by the State of California Department of Public Works.

d) The vehicle involved is a vehicle coming from an unrestricted street having ingress and egress, by direct route, to and from a restricted street when necessary for the purpose of transporting its occupants or of making pickups and deliveries of goods, wares or 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.

e) The vehicle is owned by a public utility or a licensed contractor while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility.

f) The vehicle involved is owned, leased, operated or controlled by any licensed contractor while necessarily in use in the construction, maintenance or repair of a public works project or by any highway carrier regulated by the Public Utilities Commission while transporting any materials to or from a public works project when the bids were opened prior to the adoption of this Article unless an alternate direct route is provided substantially within the City by the City of Torrance.