Roseville, MN Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)

The rule that reaches delivery trucks is § 404.02(d), headed Loading, unloading, unpacking. It says no person shall create loud and excessive noise in loading, unloading or unpacking any vehicle. The test is the noise itself, not the hour or the decibel level: the code prints no time window and no measurement for deliveries. That makes the neighboring paragraphs relevant. Under § 404.02(c), no person shall use any vehicle so out of repair or so loaded as to create loud and unnecessary grating, grinding, rattling or other noise, which covers a truck whose cargo bangs or whose body rattles.

Under § 404.02(a), no person shall sound a vehicle's audible signaling device except as a warning of danger. The general prohibition in § 404.01 bars any distinctly and loudly audible noise that unreasonably annoys or disturbs the comfort, repose, health, peace, safety or welfare of any person, and it is not limited by the specific restrictions in § 404.02. Section 404.03 lists five restricted operations: recreational vehicles, domestic power equipment, refuse handling, construction activities and snowmobiles. Deliveries are not among them. Refuse handling in § 404.03(c) is the closest hour rule for trucks: no person shall collect or remove garbage or refuse in any residential district except between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on any weekday or between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on any weekend or legal holiday.

A business with a recurring need can ask the city council for a variance under § 404.05, supplying a certified list of property owners within 500 feet.