Sherman, TX Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 12.04.009(b) of the Sherman Code of Ordinances targets commercial rigs in residential areas. It is unlawful for any person at any time to cause or permit any semitruck-type trailer, cargo truck or cargo trailer to remain upon any public street, alley or other public place within a residential neighborhood, except as necessitated for normal business deliveries or loading or unloading. Unlike the night limit in subsection (a), this ban has no hour window.

The section defines residential neighborhood by a count: at least fifty percent of the structures adjacent to any public street, alley or other public place, for a distance of one hundred fifty feet measured from the front or rear of the truck or cargo trailer, must be used for single- or multiple-family occupancy.

Two related rules sit elsewhere in the code. Section 12.02.009 restricts truck traffic itself: it is unlawful for persons operating or towing semitrailers or truck tractors to be upon city streets, alleys and rights-of-way, excluding state and U.S. highways, except to make pickups or deliveries by the most direct route from or to the nearest state or U.S. highway. State, county and municipal vehicles are exempt. And § 8.07.003(b)(14) makes it unlawful for the owner or person in control of a refrigerated-type truck or trailer to allow it to be parked more than two hours within two hundred feet of a residential structure, and for a motel, truck stop or similar commercial activity to permit that parking.

The night limit in § 12.04.009(a) also applies to trucks and truck-trailers left on public streets for four hours or more between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Under § 12.04.005, a vehicle parked unlawfully can be immobilized and removed from public property, including roadways, rights-of-way and easements.