The county has a loading rule, and it is oddly drafted. El Dorado County Ordinance Code 12.08.130 makes it unlawful to park any vehicle “on or within ten feet of the centerline of any County highway for the purpose of loading or unloading livestock, equipment or other commodity” without first obtaining an encroachment permit. Whether household goods are an “other commodity” is genuinely unsettled — read broadly it covers a move, read alongside “livestock” and “equipment” it points at freight. The county defines neither “commodity” nor “loading”, and Chapter 12.08 has no exemption for a residential move. We treat this as a question for county Transportation rather than a settled answer, and we would rather tell you that than quote you a rule with false confidence.
There are three delivery exemptions, and none of them reaches that section. Section 10.04.050(A) exempts vehicles “making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any premises located on such highways” from all of Title 10. Sections 12.20.050 and 12.24.020 carry near-identical exemptions from the weight and width limits. But Chapter 12.08’s own exemptions cover only state highway work, county work and the United States — so the loading provision above stands outside the delivery carve-outs that cover everything else.
The weight limits exist but have no number in the code. Section 12.20.010 makes it an offense to exceed “the weight limit specified by resolution of the Board of Supervisors” on posted county highways — the threshold lives in a resolution and on the sign at the road’s entrance, not in the ordinance. There is no figure we can quote you for any particular El Dorado Hills road, so the honest answer is to read the sign.
Truck routes here are advisory, not mandatory. The county’s Chapter 12.25 route requirement applies only to interstate trucks, meaning a truck tractor and trailer or doubles — a 26-foot straight van is neither. What the county publishes instead is a list of “preferred” truck routes, which includes El Dorado Hills Boulevard, Silva Valley Parkway, Serrano Parkway, Francisco Drive, Green Valley Road, Latrobe Road, Saratoga Way, Country Club Drive, Bass Lake Road, Cambridge Road and White Rock Road. Preferred is the county’s own word: it is guidance, not a mandate.
No curb reservation, and no residential parking ban either. County Transportation issues encroachment, grading, haul, special event and road closure permits — nothing that reserves a parking space for a move. Equally, we found no commercial-vehicle or oversized-vehicle parking prohibition for residential streets anywhere in the county code. The outer limit is the general 72-hour rule in section 10.12.210, after which a vehicle may be towed.
A 26-foot truck needs no oversize permit: those trigger above 14 feet high, 8’6″ wide, or the legal axle and gross weight limits. County rules change, so we re-check before move day.
Permit and access details confirmed against the city's own published guidance. Rules change — we re-check before move day.
