Grand Prairie, TX Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)

Sec. 13-277(11) restricts several noisy activities to "daytime hours," defined at Sec. , whenever they occur within a residential district or within 300 feet of a residential structure, unless an urgent-necessity exception for public safety is approved. Subsection (d), Loading and unloading operations, covers noise from "loading or unloading of trucks or similar large type vehicles (one (1) ton and over)," including opening, closing or otherwise handling boxes, crates, containers or building material connected with the load; an emergency exception has to be approved by the director.

Subsection (e), Truck idling, limits any standing vehicle over 10,000 pounds manufacturer's gross vehicle weight to no more than fifteen minutes of idling within a residential district or within 300 feet of one, though vehicles confined and operated inside an enclosed structure are exempt from that cap. Both sit inside the broader "presumptions" framework of Sec. 13-277(a), which treats the listed acts as unlawful nuisances when carried out with enough volume, intensity or duration to unreasonably disturb; Sec. 13-278 then sets the actual citation trigger, plainly audible at thirty feet or over the numeric decibel caps in Sec.

13-283. A violation is a misdemeanor under Sec. 13-285, fined under Sec. 1-8 with each day counted as a separate offense, and obstructing the city's noise enforcement personnel is a separate offense under Sec. 13-285(b).