Tuscaloosa, AL Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)

8's Article II sets a citywide framework limiting sound to seventy-five db(A) by day and sixty-five db(A) overnight at residential property lines, and separately bars 'loud or raucous sounds' that disturb the peace of a residential district. Sec. ' That single sentence covers a delivery truck idling in a driveway, its diesel engine running while cargo is unloaded, its back-up warning beeper, or its air brakes releasing, because all of those are ordinary incidents of operating the vehicle. The exemption is not a truck-specific carve-out; it applies equally to any motor vehicle and to trains, and it sits alongside a separate exception in subsection (c) for sirens, horns, whistles and warning devices used by motor vehicles, trains and boats to avoid collisions.

window under subsections (f) and (g). 8 offense; a resident's recourse for excessive truck noise lies outside this noise article, for example through the separate public-street vehicle noise standards or the city's general nuisance provisions.