Wauwatosa, WI Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)
Key Facts
- Weight threshold
- over 5,000 lbs including load
- Weekday overnight ban
- 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.
- Sunday/holiday ban
- midnight to noon
- Daytime limit
- 2 hours between 7 a.m.-7 p.m.
- Residential street (passenger commercial vehicles)
- 15 minutes unless attended
- Signed-zone penalty
- Wis. Stat. § 346.53, not municipal fine schedule
Summary
Trucks, commercial vehicles, or trailers over five thousand pounds (including the load) cannot park on any Wauwatosa street between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. on weekdays, or between midnight and noon on Sundays and legal holidays. During the day the same vehicles are capped at two hours, and passenger-carrying commercial vehicles over the weight threshold get just fifteen minutes on a residential street unless attended.
It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation owning, driving, or in charge of any motor truck, commercial vehicle or trailer in excess of five thousand pounds, including weight of load, to park the same on any street in the city of Wauwatosa between the hours of seven p.m. and seven a.m. on weekdays and between the hours of twelve a.m. and twelve p.m. on Sundays and legal holidays. ... It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation owning, driving, or in charge of any motor truck, commercial vehicle or trailer in excess of five thousand pounds, including weight of load, to park the same on any street in the city of Wauwatosa for more than two hours between the hours of seven a.m. and seven p.m. of any day. ... It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation owning, driving or in charge of any ... commercial vehicle primarily intended for the transportation of passengers and weighing in excess of five thousand pounds, exclusive of the weight of the load, to park the same on any residential street in the city of Wauwatosa for more than fifteen minutes at any time unless such vehicle is continually attended by its driver, owner or operator.
Full Breakdown
on weekdays, and midnight to noon on Sundays and legal holidays. 350 then adds daytime and location limits for the same class of vehicle. any day, a qualifying truck or trailer cannot sit on a street for more than two hours, and it cannot park anywhere the city has posted official signs prohibiting, restricting, or limiting such parking. A separate rule targets buses and other commercial vehicles built to carry passengers and weighing over five thousand pounds (exclusive of load): on a residential street they are capped at fifteen minutes unless the driver, owner, or operator stays with the vehicle the whole time.
The same section also names one specific location ban: no qualifying truck may park on the north side of West North Avenue between North 91st Street and Swan Boulevard. 350 traces to the prior code and an October 6, 1970 ordinance, and was last amended by Ordinance O-16-19, Part I, effective May 6, 2016. 53.
Violations & Fines
Standard truck-parking violations under Section 11.32.340 and most of Section 11.32.350 run through the same Chapter 11.64 process as any parking ticket: seven days to pay via the municipal fine schedule, with escalating penalties after seven and thirty days unpaid. Violations of the posted-sign restriction in Section 11.32.350(B) are excluded from that process under Section 11.64.080 and are instead penalized under Wis. Stat. § 346.53.
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