Berkeley, CA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

, a window aimed at trucks that would otherwise sit on residential streets overnight while drivers rest or wait for morning deliveries. The section defines a heavy-duty commercial vehicle broadly: any single vehicle or combination of vehicles with more than two axles, any vehicle 20 feet or more in length, or any vehicle six feet six inches or more in width, expressly naming dump trucks, moving vans, tractors, and pole or pipe dollies as covered equipment. Because the definition turns on axle count, length, or width rather than cargo, it reaches large box trucks and tractor-trailers regardless of whether they are hauling goods at the moment they are parked.

080. 020, a first parking infraction draws a fine of up to one hundred dollars, a second up to two hundred dollars, and each further violation of the same section within a year up to five hundred dollars, with police and code enforcement staff empowered to cite offending vehicles. The ordinance traces to the original 1952 traffic code (Ord. 9) and was most recently amended by Ordinance 7833-NS § 2 in 2022, which updated the one-hour overnight limit still in force today.