Truck Route

Established truck routes are outlined in Chapter 25, Transportation, Section 182 and 183. A map of the truck route is provided in a pdf format.

Section 25-182 states the following:

(a) Truck routes shall include:

(1) All streets under the jurisdiction of the state department of transportation (state roads);

(2) All streets in the central business area bounded on the east by Ybor Channel, on the west by the Hillsborough River and on the north by a line running along Scott Street east to Orange Avenue, south to Cass Street, east to the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, northeast to Adamo Drive, except Florida Avenue from the Crosstown Expressway off-ramp to Scott Street which is prohibited to use by trucks carrying hazardous materials. Trucks carrying hazardous materials on the Crosstown Expressway are prohibited from exiting onto Florida Avenue or Morgan Street and shall use the Crosstown Expressway to 22nd Street north, thence north along 22nd Street to the Interstate 4 on-ramps, thence eastward or westward along Interstate 4 to Interstate 275 or points east;

(3) Any other streets so designated by any ordinance of this city. The transportation manager shall place and maintain at major intersections or other reasonable intervals signs on such other streets indicating their permissible use as truck routes;

(4) Cypress Street from Dale Mabry Highway to North Boulevard.

(b) All trucks within the city shall be operated only over and along the truck routes established in subsection (a) above.

(1) Operation on street of destination. The operation of a truck upon any street where necessary to the conduct of business, construction or maintenance operations at a destination point, if streets upon which truck traffic is permitted are used until reaching the intersection nearest the destination point.

(2) Authorized emergency vehicles. The operation of an authorized emergency vehicle upon any street in the city.

(3) Detoured trucks. The operation of a truck upon any officially established detour in any case where such truck could lawfully be operated upon the street for which the detour is established.

(Ord. No. 89-258, � 2(57-212), 10-5-89)

Sec. 25-183. Truck route use.

Every truck shall proceed only over established truck routes and shall deviate only at the intersection nearest to its first destination point. Upon leaving its first destination point, a truck shall proceed to other destination points only over truck routes insofar as possible, using that routing which minimizes the distance traveled over nontruck routes. Upon leaving its last destination point, a deviating truck shall return to a truck route by the shortest possible route.

(Ord. No. 89-258, � 2(57-213), 10-5-89)