Logan, UT Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)

Section 8.16.420 in Chapter 8.16, Sound and Vibration, is the city's loading dock and delivery rule. It does not name trucks. It regulates the handling of cargo: loading, unloading, opening, closing or other handling of boxes, crates, containers, building materials, garbage cans, or similar objects. The lead-in declares the acts, and the causing thereof, violations of the chapter, so the driver doing the work and the business or person who has the delivery made can both be reached.

Two conditions must be met. The handling must happen between ten o'clock (10:00) P.M. and seven o'clock (7:00) A.M. the following day, and it must cause a noise disturbance across a residential real property boundary or within a noise sensitive zone. The rule is not a ban on night deliveries. A truck unloading at night at a site whose sound does not disturb across a residential boundary or into a noise sensitive zone is outside the wording. The garbage can reference also brings early morning refuse pickup into view when the clatter reaches a residential boundary.

Section 8.16.300 defines a noise disturbance as any sound that endangers or injures the safety or health of humans or animals, annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities, or endangers or injures personal or real property. It defines noise sensitive activities as including the operations of schools, libraries open to the public, churches, courts, hospitals and nursing homes, and the noise chapter defines a residential area as any area zoned R1, R1A, R2, R2A, MH, R3 or R4.

Neighboring sections use different clocks. Section 8.16.422 treats construction tools and equipment from nine thirty o'clock (9:30) P.M. to seven o'clock (7:00) A.M. on weekdays, and section 8.16.424 treats vehicle repairs and testing in residential areas from nine o'clock (9:00) P.M. to seven o'clock (7:00) A.M.