Newark, NJ Mobility & Curb Rules: Freight Loading Policy (2026)

Under Revised General Ordinances § 23:4-1, adopted by Ord. 6 S+FF on December 4, 1996, any truck whose combined registered gross weight plus load exceeds four tons must stay on the listed truck-route streets, which include Doremus Avenue (Port Street to the I-95 access ramp), Port Street (I-95 to Doremus Avenue), Frelinghuysen Avenue (Virginia Street to Poinier Street), Ferry Street, Raymond Boulevard, McCarter Highway approaches, and Meeker Avenue, among others, each with a fixed direction of travel. The ordinance carves out three exceptions: trucks may leave the designated route only to pick up or deliver materials in Newark (subsection b); public utility trucks performing construction, installation, operation, maintenance or repair of utility facilities are exempt on any street (subsection c); and no state highway or Essex County road can be added to, or excluded from, the system without approval of the State Highway Commissioner or the Essex County Board of County Commissioners (subsections d, e).

2 (Ord. 6 PSF-C, 9-19-2012), lets overweight vehicles up to 128,000 pounds gross vehicle weight use Doremus Avenue between Port Street and the Route 1&9 truck route, both directions. Enforcement runs through the same traffic-schedule mechanism as the rest of Chapter 23:4 and took effect only once route signage was installed to federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices standards.