Alpharetta updates truck route ordinance
The Alpharetta City Council is updating its 1974 truck route ordinance, identifying 12 streets for trucks and prohibiting the vehicles from other streets except under certain circumstances.
The council approved a revised ordinance identifying as truck routes Ga. 9 (North and South Main Street), Ga. 120, Haynes Bridge Road (Ga. 120 to the city limits), Hembree Road (Westside Parkway to the Roswell city limits, then continuing as a Roswell truck route), Mansell Road, Maxwell Road (Ga. 9 to Hembree), McGinnis Ferry Road, North Point Parkway, Union Hill Road, Westside Parkway, Windward Concourse, and Windward Parkway (Ga. 9 to Union Hill).
Trucks may not use any other streets except when going to a terminal, parking lot, repair garage, headquarters or place of pickup or delivery; if so, a truck must take the most direct route available. The ordinance defines a truck as a motor vehicle with a gross vehicular weight rating in excess of 36,000 pounds, or having an overall length exceeding 30 feet, except vehicles designed to carry passengers.
