Orlando, FL Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- City Code § 42.03(1)
- Residential daytime cap
- 60 dBA/65 dBC, 7 a.m.-10 p.m.
- Residential nighttime cap
- 55 dBA/60 dBC, 10 p.m.-7 a.m.
- Measurement point
- At or beyond the real property line
- Enforcement
- Code Enforcement Board, Chapter 5 Art. II
Summary
Orlando's noise chapter names pick-up and delivery trucks specifically as a regulated commercial noise source. Their sound must stay within Chart 1's decibel table for the zoning district and time of day, enforced by Code Enforcement.
The requirements of Chart 1 shall apply to all noises (except those specifically exempted in Section 42.06), including but not limited to, continuous and intermittent noise, tones, impact noise, and noise emitted by speaker boxes, sound amplification devices, pick-up and delivery trucks and any other commercial or industrial activities.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 92).
Full Breakdown
03(1) folds delivery and pick-up truck noise into the same decibel ceiling that governs every other commercial and industrial sound source in Orlando. m. Commercial-zoned property gets a looser cap of 70 dBA/75 dBC daytime and 65 dBA/70 dBC at night. 04, no person may produce noise exceeding those Chart 1 limits when measured at or beyond the real property line of the lot generating it, or beyond 50 feet for outdoor noise on public property, unless City Council has issued a Chapter 18B permit.
08's ASTM-based method. Because delivery trucks are commercial or industrial equipment operating on someone else's schedule, most complaints arise from early-morning warehouse or restaurant deliveries in mixed residential/commercial corridors, where the truck's beeping backup alarm and compressor noise can carry across a property line into a residential zone's stricter nighttime limit.
Violations & Fines
Enforcement runs through Chapter 1, Section 1.08 or the Code Enforcement Board process in Chapter 5, Article II, per Section 42.09. A property owner or business responsible for the delivery activity can be cited for exceeding the Chart 1 decibel limit for the receiving property's zoning classification; each measured exceedance is a separate violation subject to code enforcement citations and fines under Section 1.08.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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