truck idling rules and regulations

Maricopa County

Time limit
• 5 minutes
Fines
• $100 first violation
• $300 second violation
Exemptions
• Traffic or adverse weather
• Emergency or law enforcement purposes
• Power takeoff involving cargo or work functions
• Conform to manufacturer’s specifications
• Maintenance or diagnostics
• HOS compliance

CALIFORNIA Statewide

Time limit
• 5 minutes
Fines
• Minimum $300
Exemptions
• Traffic conditions
• Queuing beyond 100 feet of residential units
• Adverse weather conditions or mechanical difficulties
• Vehicle safety inspection
• Service or repair
• Power takeoff involving cargo or work functions
• Prevent safety or health emergency
• Emergency vehicles

City of Sacramento

Time limit
• 5 minutes
• Prohibits reefer operation within 100 feet of residential or school areas unless loading or unloading
Fines
• Not less than $100 and not more than $25,000 per violation
Exemptions
• Traffic conditions/control
• Vehicle safety inspection
• Service or repair
• Conform to manufacturer’s specifications
• Power takeoffs involving cargo or work functions
• Prevent safety or health emergency
• HOS compliance at truck/rest stop

Placer County
(NE of Sacramento)

Time limit
• 5 minutes
• Prohibits reefer operation within 100 feet of residential or school areas unless loading or unloading
Fines
• $50 minimum
Exemptions
• Traffic conditions/control
• Vehicle safety inspection
• Service or repair
• Conform to manufacturer’s specifications
• Power takeoffs involving cargo or work functions
• Prevent safety or health emergency
• HOS compliance at truck/rest stop
• Operate intermittent equipment
• Attainment areas where air meets EPA quality standards

COLORADO
City of Aspen

Time limit
• 5 minutes in 1-hour period
Fines
• $1,000 maximum and/or
1 year of imprisonment
Exemptions
• Safety reasons
• To achieve an engine temperature of 120 degrees and an air pressure of 100 pounds per square inch

Denver: City and County
Time limit
• 10 minutes in any 1-hour period
Fines
• Not more than $999 and/or 1 year of imprisonment
Exemptions
• Less than 20 degrees for previous 24-hour period
• Less than 10 degrees
• Emergency vehicles
• Traffic conditions
• Being serviced
• Auxiliary equipment

CONNECTICUT
Statewide

Time limit
• 3 minutes
Fines
• Not more than $5,000 per week
Exemptions
• Traffic conditions or mechanical difficulties
• Ensure safety or health of driver/passengers
• Auxiliary equipment
• Conform to manufacturer’s specifications
• Less than 20 degrees
• Maintenance
• Queuing to access military installation

DELAWARE
Statewide

Time limit
• 3 minutes
• 15 minutes if 32 degrees to minus 10 degrees
• No limit if less than minus 10 degrees
Fines
• $50 to $500 per offense
Exemptions
• Traffic conditions or mechanical difficulties
• Conform to manufacturer’s specs
• Repair
• Emergency vehicles
• Using auxiliary equipment/power takeoff
• Power during sleeping or resting beyond 25 miles of truck stop with available electrified equipment
• Vehicle safety inspections

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Time limit
• 3 minutes
• 5 minutes if less than 32 degrees
Fines
• $500, doubles for each subsequent violation
Exemptions
• Power takeoff

FLORIDA
Statewide
Time limit
• 5 minutes
Exemptions
• While driver is sleeping/resting in sleeper berth (expires September 2013)
• While stopped for traffic conditions beyond driver’s control
• To operate heat, A/C to prevent health/safety emergency
• To operate auxiliary equipment, lift, cement mixer, etc.

Editor’s note: This regulation is effective Dec. 15, 2008. Until then, Florida intends to warn violators but won’t write tickets.

GEORGIA
City of Atlanta

Time limit
• 15 minutes
• 25 minutes if below 32 degrees for passenger comfort/safety
Fines
• $500 minimum
Exemptions
• To perform needed work
• Traffic conditions
• Natural gas or electric vehicles

HAWAII
Statewide

Time limit
• 3 minutes for start up/cool down
Fines
• $25 to $2,500 per day
Exemptions
• Adjustment or repair
• Auxiliary equipment or power takeoff

ILLINOIS

Cities: Aux Sable, Goose Lake, and Oswego
Counties: Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane, McHenry, Will, Madison, St. Clair, Monroe
Time limit
• 10 minutes within any 60-minute period
• 30 minutes within any 60-minute period: waiting to weigh, load or unload freight
• No limit when less than 32 degrees or more than 80 degrees
Fines
• $50 first conviction
• $150 for second and subsequent convictions in a 12-month period
Exemptions
• Traffic conditions/controls
• Prevent a safety or health emergency
• Emergency or law enforcement purposes
• Service or repair
• Government inspection
• Power takeoffs involving cargo or work functions
• Resting in a sleeper berth
• Mechanical difficulties
• Queuing

MAINE
Statewide

Time Limit
• 5 minutes
• Additional 10 minutes if 32 degrees or colder
Fines
• Warnings for first offense
• $150 fines for repeat offenders
Exemptions
• Zero degrees or colder
• Traffic conditions
• Operation of defrosters, heaters or A/C to prevent safety or health emergency
• Operation of heaters or A/C while waiting to load/unload
• Maintenance, servicing, repair or diagnostics
• State or federal inspections
• Emergency vehicles

MARYLAND
Statewide

Time limit
• 5 minutes
Fines
• Not less than $500
Exemptions
• Traffic conditions or mechanical difficulties
• Heating, cooling and auxiliary equipment
• Conform to manufacturer’s specifications
• Accomplish intended use

MASSACHUSETTS
Statewide

Time limit
• 5 minutes
Fines
• Not less than $100 for first offense
• Not more than $500 for each subsequent offense
Exemptions
• Being serviced
• Delivery for which power is needed and alternatives unavailable
• Associate power needed and alternatives unavailable

MINNESOTA
City of Minneapolis

Time limit
• Five-minute limit unless driver is in sleeper berth
Fines
• $200 for first violation, doubles for each subsequent ticket up to $2,000
Exemptions
• Permitted construction equipment
• Compliance with traffic signals or signs
• Emergency or law enforcement purposes

City of Owatonna

Time limit
• 15 minutes each 5 hours in residential areas
Fines
• $1,000 maximum and/or 90 days of imprisonment
Exemptions
• None

City of St. Cloud

Time limit
• 5 minutes, West Germain Street from 8th to 10th Avenues
Fines
• Not more than $200
Exemptions
• None

Time limit
• 10 minutes
Fines
• Up to $500 and/or up to 90 days of imprisonment

Exemptions
• Emergency vehicles

St. Louis County

Time limit
• 3 consecutive minutes
Fines
• Maximum $1,000 and/or 1 year of imprisonment
Exemptions
• Operating a loading, unloading, or processing device
• Emergency vehicles

NEVADA
Statewide

Time limit
• 15 minutes
Fines
• $100 to $500 for first offense
• $500 to $1,000 for second offense
• $1,000 to $1,500 for third offense
• $1,500 to $2,500 for fourth and more offenses within a three-year period
Exemptions
• Variance has been issued
• Emergency vehicles
• Snow removal equipment
• Repair or maintain other vehicles
• Traffic congestion
• Maintenance at repair facility
• Emission contained and treated per commission
• To perform specific task

Clark County
(including Las Vegas)

Time limit
• 15 minutes
Fines
• Not more than $10,000
Exemptions
• Variance has been issued
• Emergency vehicles
• Repair or maintain other vehicles
• Traffic congestion
• Emission contained and treated per control officer
• To perform a specific task
• Maintenance at repair facility

Washoe County

Time limit
• 15 minutes
Fines
• Not more than $250 for first offense
• Not less than $250 or more than $500 for subsequent offenses
Exemptions
• Emergency vehicles
• Snow removal equipment
• Repair or maintain other vehicles
• Traveling on public rights-of-way
• To perform specific task
• Maintenance at repair facility

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Statewide

Time limit
• 5 minutes if more than 32 degrees
• 15 minutes if 32 degrees to minus 10 degrees
Fines
• To be determined
Exemptions
• Traffic conditions
• Emergency vehicles
• Power takeoff or heat/cool passengers
• Maintenance or diagnostics
• Defrost windshield
• Less than 10 degrees

NEW JERSEY
Statewide

Time limit
• 3 minutes
• 15 minutes if stopped for more than 3 hours and less than 25 degrees
Fines
• $100 for first offense
• $200 for second offense
• $500 for third offense
• $1,500 for subsequent offenses
Exemptions
• Traffic conditions
• Mechanical operations
• Waiting or being inspected
• Performing emergency services
• Being repaired or serviced
• Use of a sleeper-berth in non-residential areas before April 30, 2010
• Auxiliary power unit/generator set, bunk heaters etc.

NEW YORK
Statewide

Time limit
• 5 minutes
Fines
• Not less than $375 or more than $15,000 for first offense
• Not more than $22,500 for subsequent offenses
Exemptions
• Traffic conditions
• Comply with passenger comfort laws
• Auxiliary power or maintenance
• Emergency vehicles
• Within mines or quarries
• Parked for more than 2 hours and less than 25 degrees
• State inspections
• Farm vehicles

City of New Rochelle

Time limit
• 5 minutes
Fines
• Up to $50 and/or 15 days in jail for first offense
• Up to $100 and/or 45 days in jail for second offense within 18 months
• Up to $250 and/or 90 days in jail for subsequent offenses within 18 months
Exemptions
• Traffic conditions
• Comply with passenger comfort laws
• Auxiliary power or maintenance
• Emergency vehicles
• Within mines or quarries
• Parked for more than 2 hours and less than 25 F
• State inspections
• Farm vehicles

New York City

Time limit
• 3 minutes
Fines
• $50 to $500 and/or 20 days in jail on first offense
• $100 to $1,000 and/or up to 30 days in jail on second offense
• $400 to $5,000 and/or up to 4 months on subsequent offenses
Exemptions
• Emergency vehicles
• Operate loading, unloading or processing device

Rockland County

Time limit
• 3 consecutive minutes
Fines
• Not more than $250 and/or 15 days in jail on first offense
• Nor more than $1,000 and/or 15 days in jail on second and subsequent offenses
Exemptions
• Traffic conditions
• Comply with passenger comfort laws
• Power for auxiliary purposes
• Maintenance
• Performing emergency services

PENNSYLVANIA
Statewide

Editor’s note: As of press time, Pennsylvania’s environmental agency was planning to present a proposal to the Pennsylvania General Assembly that would update the Pennsylvania idling restrictions to, among other things, remove the sleeper-berth exemption.

Allegheny County

Time limit
• 5 minutes
• 20 minutes per hour if less than 40 degrees or more than 75 degrees
Fines
• Warning for first offense
• $100 for second offense
• $500 for subsequent offenses
Exemptions
• Traffic conditions
• Queuing
• Cool down/warm up per manufacturer’s recommendations
• Sleeping/resting in truck
• Safety inspections
• Ensure safe operation
• Emergency vehicles
• Power accessory or service equipment
• Repair or diagnostics

City of Philadelphia

Time limit
• 2 minutes except on layovers
• 5 minutes if less than 32 degrees
• 20 minutes if less than 20 degrees
Fines
• $300
Exemptions
• None

RHODE ISLAND
Statewide

Time limit
• 5 minutes in any 1-hour period
• 15 minutes per hour when between zero and 32 degrees
• No limit when below zero
Fines
• Not more than $100 for first offense
• Not more than $500 for subsequent offenses
Exemptions
• Traffic conditions
• Ensure health or safety of driver/passengers
• Power work-related operations
• Sleeper cabs during federally mandated rest periods (expires July 1, 2010)
• Maintenance, serving, repairing or diagnostic purposes
• State or federal inspections
• Emergency or law enforcement purposes
• Auxiliary power unit/generator set

TEXAS

Cities of Austin, Bastrop, Dallas, Elgin, Lockhart, Round Rock and San Marcos
Counties of Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis and Williamson

Time limit
• 5 minutes from April to October
Fines
• Varies by jurisdiction
Exemptions
• 14,000 pounds GVW or less
• Traffic conditions
• Emergency or law enforcement
• To perform needed work
• Maintenance or diagnostics
• Defrost windshield
• HOS compliance

UTAH
Statewide

Time limit
• Cannot leave running unattended
Fines
• Not more than $750 and/or not more than 90 days of imprisonment
Exemptions
• None

Salt Lake City

Time limit
• 15 minutes
Fines
• Up to $1,000 and/or up to 6 months in jail on first offense
• Up to $2,500 and/or up to 1 year in jail on second and subsequent offenses within 2 years
Exemptions
• Reefer unit if more than 500 feet from any residence
• To heat/cool sleeper berth if more than 500 feet from any residence
• Emergency vehicles

VIRGINIA
Statewide

Time limit
• 10 minutes in commercial or residential urban areas
Fines
• Not more than $25,000
Exemptions
• Auxiliary power