Allentown, PA Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)

the following day in a manner that causes a noise disturbance across a residential real property boundary. The rule targets trucks and delivery crews working overnight next to homes: a warehouse or retail loading dock that keeps hand trucks and pallet jacks banging into the small hours can be cited even without a specific decibel reading, because the section defines the disturbance by the activity and the hour rather than by a measured sound level. The ordinance carves out one exception: it "shall not apply to municipal or utility services in or about the public right-of-way," so a city sanitation crew or a utility company repairing a line overnight is not subject to the curfew.

The Department of Police has primary enforcement responsibility for this subsection under § 400-3B. on weekdays and Saturdays, and at any time on Sundays or holidays, showing the code treats delivery-and-loading noise and construction noise as two distinct prohibited acts with different curfews and enforcing provisions. Businesses that need deliveries during the restricted hours, such as a grocery store with an early-morning produce truck, have no waiver specific to this section; the general variance process before the Hearing Board under § 400-5B is the only route to authorized relief.