Asheville, NC Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Sec. 19-59(b) defines the covered vehicles as any truck, tractor, trailer, semitrailer, or bus with a gross weight over 10,000 pounds, a length over 270 inches overall, or a width over 96 inches, and (a) makes parking any such vehicle on a city system street unlawful outright, not just in residential areas. Subsection (c) lets the city manager or a designee authorize temporary parking of these oversize vehicles in connection with construction-related activity. Subsection (d) carves out two exceptions: a vehicle actively being loaded, unloaded, or used in service to property on or adjacent to the street, and a vehicle rendered temporarily inoperable by mechanical trouble, but that breakdown exception is capped at three hours.

The neighboring Sec. 19-60 separately restricts truck driving, rather than parking, on residential streets: trucks with a GVW of 10,000 pounds or more, or with tandem or tri-axle configurations, are barred from designated residential streets listed in the city's traffic schedule (Appendix C) and marked with the R5-2 sign, subject to exceptions for trucks using the street as their exclusive route, using a city-authorized detour, or operating as authorized emergency vehicles.