City Streets Protected from Heavy Truck Traffic

The Burnet City Council recently authorized protecting certain city roadways from heavy truck traffic.  North Hill Street between Highway 29 and FM 963 and Pecan and Coke Streets between Highway 281 and Highway 29 have been named as the protected streets.  According to the ordinance, heavy truck means “any  motor  vehicle  designed,  used  or  maintained primarily  for  the  transportation  of  property,  including  truck  tractors, road  tractors,  trailers, semi-trailers, pole  trailers, and special mobile  equipment." 

There are, however, exceptions to the restriction.  These include emergency vehicles, school busses, light trucks, or heavy trucks being driven to seek service or repairs at a facility that engages in the business or repairs of commercial motor vehicles, or that are being driven to or from home, or to fulfill a local commercial obligation to a buyer or seller at a given destination, or when the street is the only route to a destination.