Sample Truck Route and Weight Restriction Provisions
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About Truck Routes and Weight Restrictions
Local authorities are authorized by RCW 46.44.080 to prohibit the operation of motor trucks or other vehicles and to impose limits as to their weight under certain circumstances. However, local authorities may not prohibit the use of any street designated by the State Transportation Commission as forming a part of any primary state highway or impose any restrictions or reductions in permissible weights unless the restrictions are first approved in writing by the State Department of Transportation. This statute also requires that the local authority imposing such restrictions do so by proper ordinance or resolution, and it must erect and maintain signs designating the provisions of the ordinance at each end of the public highway affected. The statute further provides that no such ordinance or resolution shall be effective until such signs are erected and maintained.
Statutes
- Chapter 46.44 - Size, Weight, Load
- RCW 46.44.080 - Local regulations -- State highway regulations
- RCW 46.44.090 - Special permits for oversize or overweight movements
- Chapter 46.51.450 - Maximum speed, weight, or size in traversing bridges, elevated structures, tunnels, underpasses -- Posting limits
- RCW 47.48.010 - Closing highways and restricting traffic
Ordinance Provisions
- Algona Municipal Code Ch. 10.16 - Vehicle Weight Limits and Regulation of Large Motor Vehicles
- Bellevue Municipal Code Ch. 11.70 - Regulating the Kinds and Classes of Traffic on Certain Streets
- Burien
- Clallam County Code Ch. 9.33 - Bridge Weight Limits
- Clark County
- Clark County Code Ch. 10.06 - Size, Weight and Load Requirements
- Clark County Code Ch. 10.06A - Overlegal Truck Loads, Structure Move
- Clark County Code Ch. 10.08A - Vehicle Load Limits
- Edmonds
- Edmonds Municipal Code Ch. 8.56 - Regulating Traffic on Certain Highways
- Edmonds Municipal Code Section 8.64.080 - Schedule VIII – Commercial vehicles prohibited from using certain streets
- Issaquah Municipal Code, Ch. 10.36 - Truck Routes
- Longview Municipal Code, Ch. 11.68 - Load Limits - Truck Routes
- Shelton Municipal Code Ch. 11.40- Load Restrictions and Street Closures
- Seattle Municipal Code, Ch. 11.62 - Regulating the Kinds and Classes of Traffic on Certain Streets
- Spokane
- Spokane Municipal Code Section 12.08.010 - Streets Closed to Trucks
- Spokane Municipal Code Section 12.08.020 - Truck Routes Designated
- Spokane Municipal Code Section 12.08.030 - Weight Limit Imposed
- Tacoma Municipal Code, Ch, 11.55 (
354 MB, begins on page 62 of file) - Heavy Haul Industrial Corridor
- Whatcom County
- Whatcom County Code, Chapter 10.30 - Permanent Weight Limits
- Whatcom County Code, Chapter 10.32 - Movement of Oversize Vehicles
Information Resources
- Learning from Truckers: Moving Goods in Compact, Livable Urban Spaces (), Prepared by the Washington Transportation Center for the Washington State Transportation Commission, Research Report, Research Project T9903, Task 69, June 1997.
- Legal Load Limits, Overweight Loads and Pavements and Bridges (), Washington State Department of Transportation, Materials Laboratory Folios, June 2006