Middletown, OH Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

10 keeps freight traffic off the street where an alternative exists: no person may cause a vehicle to stand on any street to receive or unload freight where there is a public alley from which that freight can be delivered or received instead. The rule pushes delivery trucks to use rear alleys serving downtown and commercial buildings rather than blocking a travel lane or curb parking on the street itself, and it dates to Ord. O75-33, adopted in 1975. 11, which otherwise bars parking a vehicle with more than two axles or over a one-ton load capacity, or a detached trailer, on any city street for more than 60 consecutive minutes; that section carves out an explicit exception for the purposes of loading or unloading freight, so a heavy truck may stand longer than 60 minutes on a street while actively loading or unloading, but not simply parked.

A commercial tractor and semitrailer combination gets the same 60-minute cap and is cited as two separate units if both violate it. 11's commercial-vehicle violation carries the same tiered fine amounts under its own line in the same table.