§ 15-46. Weights allowed on Webster Parish roadways.

(a)

For vehicles whose origin or destination is a high volume heavy load location, the total gross weight of a type 6 vehicle is eighty thousand (80,000) pounds. The total gross weight for a type 8 vehicle is eighty-eight thousand (88,000) pounds (this includes all type 8 vehicles and any tractor with three (3) or more axles pulling a trailer with three (3) or more axles that are all properly rated).

(b)

For vehicles whose origin or destination is a high volume heavy load location, no tire mounted on any axle attached to any vehicle or combination of vehicles shall impose a greater weight on the surface of a roadway than six hundred fifty (650) pounds per square inch. No tire shall exceed its manufacturers tire rating.

(c)

For vehicles whose origin or destination is a high volume heavy load location, the total gross weight of any single axle attached to any vehicle and equipped with low-pressure pneumatic tires shall not exceed twenty-two thousand (22,000) pounds.

(d)

For vehicles whose origin or destination is a high volume heavy load location, the total gross weight of any tandem axle attached to any vehicle and equipped with low-pressure pneumatic tires is thirty-seven thousand (37,000) pounds; however any vehicle carrying forest products in their natural state shall be given forty thousand (40,000) pounds.

(e)

For vehicles whose origin or destination is a high volume heavy load location, the total gross weight for tridum axles attached to a vehicle and equipped with low-pressure pneumatic tires is forty-five thousand (45,000) pounds.

(f)

For vehicles whose origin or destination is a high volume heavy load location, the total gross weight for a quadrum axle attached to a vehicle equipped with low-pressure tires is fifty-five thousand (55,000) pounds.

(g)

For vehicles whose origin or destination is a high volume heavy load location, the total gross weight for a 5-axle group attached to a vehicle equipped with low-pressure tires is sixty-one thousand (61,000) pounds.

(h)

For vehicles whose origin or destination is a high volume heavy load location, the gross steering axle gross weight of any vehicle shall be determined by the size of the tire. It shall not exceed twenty-two thousand (22,000) pounds.

(i)

For vehicles whose origin or destination is a high volume heavy load location, reasonable distribution of axle weight on tandem, tridum, quadrum, and other axle groups shall be required as follows:

(1)

Tandem axle: A tandem axle group is properly distributed if neither of the axles carries more than twenty-one thousand five hundred (21,500) pounds.

(2)

Tridum axle: A tridum axle group is properly distributed if none of the individual axles carries more than seventeen thousand (17,000) pounds.

(3)

Quadrum axles: A quadrum axle group is properly distributed if none of the individual axles carries more than fifteen thousand five hundred (15,500) pounds.

(4)

Those vehicles and loads with permits that exceed the legal axle weight must comply with the axle weight distribution described in the overweight permit procedures.

(5)

The regulator that controls the pressure for these axles must be mounted outside the cab. The only control that may be in the cab is that which is necessary to activate the system (raise and lower the axle).

(j)

When the Webster Parish Police Jury deems it necessary by reason of (1) the condition of the weather, (2) the physical condition of any Webster Parish roadway or its recent construction, or (3) the making of repairs to a roadway, it may prohibit the use of such a highway or specific lesser gross weights than those fixed in this section pursuant to the recommendations of the parish engineer or public works director of the Webster Parish Police Jury for such time as is reasonably necessary to remedy the situation. The parish engineer or public works director is authorized to take such action in order to protect the public roadways and the persons and property of the traveling public from unnecessary damage. Notice of such restrictions, prohibitions, or weight reductions shall given by the Webster Parish Police Jury by proper posting of signs at the limits of the affected portion of the roadway. These roadways and bridges will be posted with regulatory weight limit signs (black lettering on a white background.). Violation tickets will be issued for vehicles crossing these bridges in excess of the posted weight limit. Neither the Parish of Webster nor the Webster Parish Police Jury shall incur any liability from injury or property damage caused by the crossing of a posted bridge or travel on a roadway with a load/vehicle in excess of posted or advisory (black lettering on a yellow background) weight limits.

(Ord. No. 994, 8-3-2010; Ord. No. 994-Amend., 2-1-2011)