Every day in Mahwah, delivery companies perform truck-to-truck, back-to-back loading of packages on residential streets in flagrant violation of many laws. One Amazon driver said, “It’s what we’re told to do, … it’s what we do everyday.” The Amazon driver further explained, “we don’t just do it here, we do it everywhere.” These multi-national companies operate in Mahwah with impunity, while putting Mahwah’s residents in danger.

The dangers are real. Below, a school bus filled with children struggles to pass the FedEx truck-to-truck transfer. (see more video details) Mahwah’s oldest streets are already narrow. In the photo below, these wide delivery trucks parked 3 feet from the curb, leaving no safety cushion for the school bus.

Below, a baby in a baby carriage walks on the street passing the truck-to-truck transfer, because most of Mahwah’s older neighborhoods lacks sidewalks. Fortunately, the mother and baby passed without incident, but this increased risk to pedestrians and motorists is unambiguously illegal.

Unfortunately, the Mahwah Police ignore these flagrant violations. A Mahwah Police Officer is visible in the photo of the impeded school bus. However none of the 3 incidences in this article have resulted in even a single ticket being issued, where approximately 70 violations are documented in total.

Amazon

On March 21st, two Amazon trucks performed truck-to-truck, back-to-back loading of packages on Oweno Road in the Cragmere district of Mahwah.

When asked about the loading of packages on residential streets, an Amazon drivers replied, “I told you we’re going to keep doing it.” A second Amazon driver who identified himself as “the boss” said he believed that “there ain’t no law” against the practice.

In fact, these truck-to-truck loading of packages break many long-standing laws. This March 21st incident included:

• Two instances of commercial loading activity on a residential street. It is a zoning violation to use any streets, especially residential streets, for on-street loading. Mahwah Code § 24-1.3(f)
• One instance of wrong way parking.
• Two instance of parking more than 6 inches from curb.
• A separate instance of obstruction of traffic for each passing, because these trucks park so far into the traffic lanes.
• One instance their trucks idling in excess of New Jersey Law.
• Two instances of commercial vehicles that are not legally identified to operate on public streets in New Jersey. While both trucks said “Prime”, neither identified their legal owner or the DOT number. The Mahwah Police cited difficulty in tracking down the vehicle actual owners within this enormous size of the multi-national company, despite having the license plate numbers. Everyday that each improperly labeled Amazon trucks continue to operate on public streets constitutes a separate violation.

Separately on February 28th, two Amazon trucks performed truck-to-truck, back-to-back loading of packages on nearby Rock Ridge Road. While the Mahwah Police took a report, 2025-06494, not a single ticket was issued in that case. Two weeks later, the investigating officer said that he did not even go to Mahwah’s Amazon warehouse, because of the ambiguity of which Amazon Warehouse actually operated the vehicle.

When asked about the incident, a Mahwah-based Amazon Warehouse Manager said that he did not believe that there was any policy, either at the national or local level, that restricts truck-to-truck loading of packages on residential streets. That Amazon Manager said that it was more “efficient” to send a vehicle for on-street loading, so that every truck did not have to return to the Mahwah Warehouse.

In addition to those violations that applied to the March 21st incident, this February incident additionally included:

• Two instances of vehicles parked on a hill without turning their wheels to the curb. (photo)
• One instance of a commercial vehicle that does not appear to have been inspected by any state. It also lacks a front license plate.

FedEx

This illegal practice is not limited to Amazon. The following separate incident involved 3 FedEx Ground delivery trucks, each parked approximately 3 feet from curb. There is video that shows the entire 20+ minute incident. The incident appears to show approximately 40 violations, in addition to those described, these additional violations appear to have occurred.

• FedEx trucks blocked 3 private driveways.
• One FedEx truck blocked a fire hydrant.
• The video shows approximately 25 passing vehicles were impeded by the illegally parked FedEx trucks, including interfering with a School Bus filled with children returning from school, and a baby in a baby carriage.
• The Mahwah Police officer took the third FedEx’s word that he was not transferring packages, despite him being shown in this photo (see photo) transferred a package.

The Mahwah Police were quick to respond, and witnessed most of these 40+ violations (see Mahwah Police Report 2024-35028 and video). But not a single ticket was written and the Police Officer allowed the violations to continue, only requiring the trucks to stop blocking two of the three driveways.

The Mahwah FedEx facility said that these three FedEx delivery trucks operating out of Blauvelt, New York. FedEx appears to perform these loading of packages on residential streets to eliminate the need for every truck to return to warehouse, about 27 miles and 45 minutes roundtrip.

Delivery companies won’t answer questions

The involved companies have not responded to questions regarding their apparent disregard of a dozen laws. Amazon Logistics Inc of Renton, Washington did not respond to phone calls. The Amazon Mahwah Warehouse did not follow-up with specifics after their Warehouse Manager generally responded as described above. Neither Federal Express Corporation of Memphis Tennessee and Tred Corporation of Rochelle Park have responded.