Boonville Buses and trucks not to follow within 300 feet ordinance (§ 12-31)

(a) The following terms as used in this section shall mean as follows:

Bus: Any vehicle or motorcar designed and used for the purpose of carrying more than seven persons.

Truck: Any vehicle, machine, tractor, trailer or semitrailer, or any combination thereof, propelled or drawn by mechanical power and designed or used in the transportation of property upon the highways.

(b) The driver of any truck or bus, when traveling upon a public highway outside of a business or residential district, shall not follow within 300 feet of another such vehicle; provided, the provisions of this section shall not be construed to prevent the overtaking and passing, by any such truck or bus, of another similar vehicle.