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

120 flatly prohibits parking or standing any commercial vehicle, truck tractor, semitrailer or trailer with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or more on a street, alley or parkway in any residential district, or on any residentially zoned property; the code defines a residential district as any single-family or multiple-family zoning district, citing the authority Cal. 5(c) gives cities to set that definition by ordinance. In non-residential districts the same heavy vehicles may park for up to two continuous hours, with every further two-hour period counted as a separate violation; a detached commercial trailer gets no grace period at all, and citations for one left standing in a non-residential zone are issued immediately.

The ordinance exempts vehicles actively making deliveries or pickups, contractors working under an active building permit, vehicles aiding a service call on the same block, PUC-regulated passenger buses, public utility vehicles making repairs, city/county/state vehicles doing public works, and authorized emergency vehicles. Any of the listed heavy vehicles left parked on a street, alley or parkway for more than 24 hours may be towed under Cal. Vehicle Code § 22651(n). This section traces to the original 1941 traffic ordinance and was most recently amended by Ord. MC-1663, passed May 6, 2026.