Moving labor in Fontana, CA

Parking and permits

Fontana rules for moving trucks, trailers and containers.

Key rule: In Fontana, city code limits oversized vehicles, meaning any vehicle over 22 feet long, 94 inches wide or 92 inches high, to four consecutive hours on residential streets, but exempts oversized vehicles making pickups or deliveries to an adjacent building.

In Fontana, city code bans leaving an oversized vehicle (any vehicle over 22 feet long, 94 inches wide or 92 inches high) on a residential street for more than four consecutive hours, but exempts oversized vehicles making pickups or deliveries to an adjacent building, and residents can get a free police permit of up to 72 hours. Commercial vehicles rated over 10,000 pounds may not park on public streets except for the time reasonably needed to deliver or collect goods on that block. The noise ordinance lists loud noise from loading or unloading a vehicle as a violation, and most residential streets are swept every other week.

• Trucks, trailers and large vehicles

  Fontana bans parking or leaving an oversized vehicle on any public street or right of way in a residentially zoned area for more than four consecutive hours.

  Source: Chapter 17, Article IV - Stopping, Standing and Parking (Sec. 17-162 Prohibition of parking of oversized vehicles or non-motorized vehicles), City of Fontana, Code of Ordinances (Municode). Checked October 17, 2026.
• Trucks, trailers and large vehicles

  For that rule, an oversized vehicle is any vehicle over 22 feet long, 94 inches wide or 92 inches high.

  Source: Chapter 17, Article IV - Stopping, Standing and Parking (Sec. 17-163 Oversized vehicle defined), City of Fontana, Code of Ordinances (Municode). Checked October 17, 2026.
• Trucks, trailers and large vehicles

  The four-hour limit does not apply to oversized vehicles making pickups or deliveries of goods to or from an adjacent building.

  Source: Chapter 17, Article IV - Stopping, Standing and Parking (Sec. 17-164 Exemptions to prohibition on parking of oversized vehicles), City of Fontana, Code of Ordinances (Municode). Checked October 17, 2026.
• Trucks, trailers and large vehicles

  Fontana's police chief or designee issues free temporary parking permits for an oversized vehicle belonging to a resident or the resident's guest.

  Source: Chapter 17, Article IV - Stopping, Standing and Parking (Sec. 17-165 Permit process for temporary parking permits for oversize vehicles), City of Fontana, Code of Ordinances (Municode). Checked October 17, 2026.
• Trucks, trailers and large vehicles

  A Fontana temporary oversized-vehicle parking permit lasts no more than 72 hours.

  Source: Chapter 17, Article IV - Stopping, Standing and Parking (Sec. 17-165 Permit process for temporary parking permits for oversize vehicles), City of Fontana, Code of Ordinances (Municode). Checked October 17, 2026.
• Trucks, trailers and large vehicles

  Fontana bans commercial vehicles with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating over 10,000 pounds from stopping, standing or parking on any public street.

  Source: Chapter 17, Article IV - Stopping, Standing and Parking (Sec. 17-147 Commercial vehicles and/or trailers prohibited from stopping, standing or parking), City of Fontana, Code of Ordinances (Municode). Checked October 17, 2026.
• Trucks, trailers and large vehicles

  That commercial-vehicle ban does not apply for the time reasonably needed to deliver or collect goods from, or provide a service to, a property on the same block.

  Source: Chapter 17, Article IV - Stopping, Standing and Parking (Sec. 17-147 Commercial vehicles and/or trailers prohibited from stopping, standing or parking), City of Fontana, Code of Ordinances (Municode). Checked October 17, 2026.
• Residential permit parking

  Fontana's permit parking zone restrictions do not apply to commercial vehicles lawfully in use there, as long as they stay no longer than reasonably needed to finish their business.

  Source: Chapter 17, Article IV - Stopping, Standing and Parking (Sec. 17-160 Exemptions), City of Fontana, Code of Ordinances (Municode). Checked October 17, 2026.
• Quiet hours

  Fontana's noise ordinance lists loud, excessive, impulsive or intrusive noise made while loading or unloading a vehicle, or opening boxes and containers, as a violation.

  Source: Chapter 18, Article II - Noise (Sec. 18-63 Scope, enumeration of prohibited noises), City of Fontana, Code of Ordinances (Municode). Checked October 17, 2026.
• Street sweeping

  Most residential streets in Fontana are swept every other week, with sweep days following trash days, and vehicles should be moved away from the curb on sweeping days.

  Source: Street Sweeping, City of Fontana, Public Works Department. Checked October 17, 2026.

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