Scranton, PA Environmental Rules: Vehicle Idling Restrictions (2026)

Scranton's idling limit for tractor-trailers sits inside the zoning chapter's vehicle-parking article, not a freestanding noise or air-quality ordinance. City Code § 445-44 is titled 'Parking of unregistered vehicles, commercial vehicles and junk vehicles,' and subsection B addresses the storage of commercial vehicles specifically inside residential zoning districts. Paragraph B(5) first caps how many commercial vehicles, and how large a commercial vehicle, can sit on residential property at all: no more than two vehicles bearing business markings for more than eight hours in any 48-hour period, and none heavier than 8,000 pounds gross vehicle weight if parked outside an enclosed building.

, and cannot be repaired there during those hours except for clearly emergency repairs. The companion subparagraph (c) separately limits how long a tractor-trailer's trailer itself can be parked or stored in a residential district, capping it at eight hours in any 48-hour period, and the section closes by pointing to the state Vehicle Code's registration requirements for anything parked on a public street.