The purpose of these regulations is to specify certain highway segments for use as access routes for local deliveries and to establish guidelines for their use in order to ensure public safety, to preserve the highways, and to minimize truck traffic in certain residential and school areas. In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated. Terms Defined. “Administration” means the State Highway Administration. “Local delivery truck route” means a four-lane divided State highway designated by the Administration as a route which may be used for local deliveries by trucks not exceeding the limitations set forth in Transportation Article, §§13-919, 24-102, 24-104, 24-104.1, 24-104.2, 24-108, and 24-109, Annotated Code of Maryland. U.S. Route 40 from Maryland Route 279 in Cecil County to Maryland Route 152 in Harford County is a designated local delivery truck route. Access from a route designated in Regulation .03 of this chapter for points of origin and destination of cargo shall be by the shortest practical route between the designated route and the points of origin and destination of cargo. Transportation Article, §§24-104.2, 24-203, and 24-209, Annotated Code of Maryland Effective date: Regulations .01—.04 adopted as an emergency provision effective June 29, 1995 (22:15 Md. R. 1116); adopted permanently effective October 9, 1995 (22:20 Md. R. 1544)