Parking a HGV in a residential street?

goldspanners

clever_username wrote: »

Just took the little girl over the school for her concert and down the road this huge lorry is parked in the street again. It's there once a week or so lately.

You shouldn't be parking a monster like that in a residential street surely? It's one of the lorries used to deliver bricks and building supplies on pallets, made up of a flat-bed lorry with a similar-sized trailer.

I didn't think you were allowed to park things this big in the street any more?

whats the actual problem with it?

paddedjohn

mrbadexample wrote: »

:think: Well, what are the odds of it being a private hgv? Pretty slim, i'd say.

it doesnt matter if its for private use or commercial, you dont need an operators license to purchase a truck

Strider590

With these sharp increase in "cargo theft" in this country, drivers are parking all over the place now. Having heard how it's all being done by armed gangs I do have some sympathy for these guys.

Lum

Re: Hammyman's first reply. I can understand why people would complain about an HGV being parked in their street (mainly due to visibility reasons, e.g. cars unable to pedestrians crossing the road) but why on earth do people campaign against truckstops?

Strider590

^^ "Not on my doorstep" syndrome.

In the same way that people are all for re-educating young offenders and giving them community work, just as long as it's not their community.............

Hammyman

clever_username wrote: »

Listen to the tantrum! Toys all over the place! :rotfl:

No, just a lorry driver who, like every other person in haulage is sick of being treated like scum whilst people like you want the stuff we carry.

Hammyman

mrbadexample wrote: »

:think: Well, what are the odds of it being a private HGV? Pretty slim, I'd say.

!!!!!!. The claim was you needed an O licence to buy a lorry. You don't even if its bought by a business. You can buy a lorry as a business without an O licence and do what the hell you want with it without an O licence. It needs an O licence when used for the carrying of goods for own business or for profit. UNTIL THAT POINT it doesn't need an O licence. If I buy a rigid lorry, stick a generator on the back and use it as a portable power source, it doesn't need an O licence, even if its used in the course of my business.

Hammyman

mrbadexample wrote: »

On an occasional basis they can. Otherwise, no, they can't. If this vehicle is regularly parked in a residential area then it is quite likely that an offence is being committed. I've already quoted the appropriate legislation.

I've had plenty of jobs where I've had no choice to overnight on residential streets because quite simply there was no other place to stop.

There was one job I did delivering gravestones in Scotland where it would be pretty much the same place every week. Unliike you selfish barstewards though, the Scots are able to understand the link between lorries and the goods they buy.

Flying-High_2

Once or week or so there is a Lorry parked on the street.......... Heartbreaking TBH.

Driver probably managing to get back once or twice a week and be with his family.... World might stop spinning.

Even if he is parked up getting his head down is it so bad?..... I know you say its a block lorry etc but surely a truck parked up on a street is better than being in layby or so called secure services having his curtains slashed loads swiped or gassed and his cab broken into or beaten up for his load..

I've not done night outs for years.. infact I have little to do with Trucks anymore but when I did I'd always park in what I though was the safest place for me..

But as long as little Jimmys toys are in the shops.... Tescos have bread & Milk... Who cares eh?

Hammyman

Strider590 wrote: »

^^ "Not on my doorstep" syndrome.
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Indeed. One of the latest ones to be campaigned against was at Thurrock. It was on an industrial estate/retail park and the routes in and out didn't come anywhere near residential areas yet it didn't stop the "Think of the Chiiiilllldruuuunnn" brigade campaigning against it.

There was a rail hub planned just off a motorway junction off the M25 which would have transported lorries to the midlands from the SE cutting millions of lorry journeys off the M1/M6. Even though there was going to be onsite parking for 300 lorries and the access road to it was 2 miles off the M25 up a dual carriageway, the NIMBYS in the area got it blocked, claiming there would be loads of lorries parked on residential streets. So for everyone on the M1, M6, M11 and A14 you can thank selfish gets in the South East for additional congestion.

The NIMBYS are quite stupid on the whole. They seem incapable of understanding that lorries are parked on residential streets and streets in their towns simply because they have nowhere else to go. So the NIMBYs in effect are campaiging to keep the status quo which the obviously like, despite their complaints about lorries parking on their roads.