Loveland, CO Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)

020 as a motorized or towed wheeled vehicle designed and equipped to serve food. 030. 050 requires the truck's license plate number and photographs of all four sides, proposed days and hours of operation, proof of liability insurance, a state and city sales and use tax license, and, for food specifically, all licenses required by Larimer County and the State of Colorado; a food truck's location can simply be listed as 'within the City of Loveland' rather than a fixed address. 070, weighing traffic congestion, proximity to existing street fixtures, and impact on other licensed vendors at the same location.

110 imposes truck-specific operating rules: trucks must serve customers only from the sidewalk, never from the street or an adjacent parking space; they must use flashing warning lights when stopped in the street portion of the right-of-way; they may never vend from a federal or state highway or an 'arterial' as defined in the city's master transportation plan; and they may not stop within 200 feet of any kindergarten, primary, or secondary school property line. Licenses run one calendar year, expiring December 31, and going 14 consecutive scheduled operating days without operating can be treated as abandonment of the licensed location.