New Brunswick, NJ Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)
Key Facts
- Weight trigger
- Truck with gross weight over 5,500 pounds
- Street list
- Schedule 33, Weight Limit, Certain Hours Parking Prohibited
- North Ward Street
- 24 hours, Paul Robeson Boulevard to Lawrence Street
- Lawrence Street
- 24 hours, Paul Robeson Boulevard to Renaissance Station
- Also covered
- All streets listed in Schedule 2 to RGO 10.12.010
- Removal
- Owner pays removal and storage costs
Summary
In the City of New Brunswick, New Jersey, § 10.16.140 prohibits parking any truck with a gross weight over 5,500 pounds on the streets and hours listed in Schedule 33. The schedule prints North Ward Street and Lawrence Street segments for 24 hours and adds every street listed in Schedule 2 to RGO 10.12.010.
No truck having a gross weight over five thousand five hundred (5,500) pounds is parked between the hours specified on any of the following streets or parts of streets as set forth on Schedule 33 attached to and made a part of this chapter.
Full Breakdown
Section 10.16.140 is titled Weight Limit, Certain Hours Parking Prohibited. It provides that no truck having a gross weight over 5,500 pounds is parked between the hours specified on any of the streets or parts of streets set forth in Schedule 33. The weight test is the trigger: vehicles at or under that gross weight are outside this section, and the operative hours are read from the schedule rather than from the section.
Schedule 33 has four columns: Street, Time, Hours and Location. Three entries are printed. North Ward Street is listed as All, 24 hours, between Paul Robeson Boulevard and Lawrence Street. Lawrence Street is listed as All, 24 hours, between Paul Robeson Boulevard and the beginning of Lawrence Street in Renaissance Station. The third entry reads all streets listed in Schedule 2 to RGO 10.12.010, All, 24 hours, entire length. Schedule 2 is titled Trucks Over Four Tons Excluded and its list opens with 4th Street through 8th Street, each for its entire length, so the two schedules stack on those blocks.
This is a street-by-street weight rule and is not written as a residential-district standard. The citywide overnight ban in § 10.16.130 separately covers trucks over 5,500 pounds, trailers, boats and campers between eleven p.m. and six a.m. on any public street. Loading is handled in Chapter 10.12: § 10.12.070(A) says no commercial vehicles remains in a loading zone in excess of thirty minutes, and a vehicle utilizing a loading zone permit is limited to fifteen minutes. Under § 10.16.080 the police department, the Rutgers campus patrol and parking enforcement officers can enforce the weight rule.
Violations & Fines
Parking a truck over 5,500 pounds gross weight on a Schedule 33 street during the listed hours, which print as 24 hours on every entry, is an unlawful parking violation. The police department, Rutgers campus patrol and parking enforcement officers can cite it, and § 10.16.110 lets a peace officer have an unoccupied vehicle removed, with the owner paying removal and storage costs. Fines follow Schedule 1 under § 10.04.110, which falls back to not more than fifty dollars or fifteen days or both where the schedule is silent.
Frequently Asked Questions
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