Peoria, IL Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Sec. 28-251(a) prohibits standing or parking any truck, tractor, semitrailer, trailer or bus on a residential street for longer than is reasonably necessary to load or unload the vehicle. The restriction doesn't apply to a bus parked in a designated bus zone or stand under the other bus-stop provisions of this chapter, and it carves out an exception for any pickup truck or van whose overall length doesn't exceed 235 inches and whose body width, not counting mirrors, doesn't exceed 80 inches, meaning most personal pickups and cargo vans are exempt while box trucks, semis and tractor-trailers are not.

Subsection (b) treats any vehicle parked in violation as a nuisance, which any police officer may abate by impounding the vehicle under the impoundment procedure in Sec. 28-272; the owner then owes towing and storage costs plus any fines before the vehicle is released. Because Sec. 28-251 isn't listed among the reduced settlement-schedule sections in Sec. 28-83, a violation falls under the general Chapter 28 penalty in Sec. 00 and not more than the maximum set in Sec. 1-5 of the City Code, with circuit clerk and service costs added if the case is prosecuted rather than settled.