Bloomfield, NJ Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)

Bloomfield Township has no stand-alone delivery-truck ordinance. The rules sit in Chapter 380, Noise, and apply to any vehicle, including delivery trucks, box trucks and freight carriers working in the Township.

Section 380-5 has two parts. First, it is unlawful for any person to carry or permit to be carried within the Township any material or matter of any kind which shall in transit give off disturbing noises. That reaches a rattling or banging load on the road, and it puts responsibility on the person who permits the load to be carried as well as the person carrying it. Second, a person cannot load or unload such material at night if the loading or unloading cannot be done without the production of disturbing noises. The section uses the word night and does not print clock hours, so the test turns on whether the noise is disturbing and whether the work could have been done quietly.

Section 380-6B(10) adds a rule with no time-of-day condition: the creation of a loud and excessive noise in connection with loading or unloading any vehicle, or the opening and destruction of bales, boxes, crates and containers, is declared a loud, disturbing and unnecessary noise. A dock crew breaking down crates or dropping freight at midday is within that text just as a night crew is.

Related items in the same list cover the truck itself. Item (9) reaches a vehicle so loaded or out of repair that it creates loud and unnecessary grating, grinding, rattling or other noise, and item (2) bars unnecessary horn use. Item (12) covers excessive or disturbing noise on a street adjacent to a school, institution of learning, church or court where conspicuous signs are displayed. Section 380-6A is the catch-all against any noise which annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others.

Penalties come from § 380-7 and the general penalty in § 1-15.