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Transport minister on parking companies

Mr Baker promises to stop DVLA selling numbers to parking companies, bearing in mind its Daily Snail and a politician I wonder if it will happen.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1302006/Lay-drivers-Minister-tells-councils-easier-parking-fines.html
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Comments

  • taffy056
    taffy056 Posts: 4,895 Forumite
    But they are talking about council parking tickets for the most part, they don't really say if they are going to change laws in regards to private parking companies, clamping should be made illegal in the UK by private clampers, just like in Scotland!
    Excel Parking, MET Parking, Combined Parking Solutions, VP Parking Solutions, ANPR PC Ltd, & Roxburghe Debt Collectors. What do they all have in common?
    They are all or have been suspended from accessing the DVLA database for gross misconduct!
    Do you really need to ask what kind of people run parking companies?
  • trisontana
    trisontana Posts: 9,472 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    And, of course, "rogue wheelclampers" don't need to buy information from the DVLA. They just clamp. Yet another muddled article by a journalist who doesn't know what they are talking about.
    What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?
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