MSE News: Wheel clamping ban moves closer

esmerobbo

£30 per transaction meets minimum wage requirements??? So they "have" to clamp at least two a day!

anewman

esmerobbo wrote: »

£30 per transaction meets minimum wage requirements??? So they "have" to clamp at least two a day!

Guess who gets the rest of the release fee? How many do they have working for them, and how many vehicles get clamped? There's one winner here and it's not the guy doing the clamping - even though he can do quite well if he has weak ethical standards and can clamp 3 or more vehicles a day.

esmerobbo

anewman wrote: »

Guess who gets the rest of the release fee? How many do they have working for them, and how many vehicles get clamped? There's one winner here and it's not the guy doing the clamping - even though he can do quite well if he has weak ethical standards and can clamp 3 or more vehicles a day.

You can see why even our ethical clamper Trevor Whithouse, can retire to the Virgin islands. He only charged "reasonable" release fees!

We all better be even more vigilant over the next few months lets not let the Barstewards go out with a bang!:D

peter_the_piper

sassy-one wrote: »

Victory eh??

Someone still paid £80.00 so unfortunately its not that much of a Victory.

Le73Uq86Uv

If people park on private land I guess we will have to contact the Police or Council to remove or clamp it.

I am sure they will love that.

Maybe the law should allow private individuals to be able to clamp on the land they own.

By the way I think it is about time these clampers were stopped.

anewman

Le73Uq86Uv wrote: »

If people park on private land I guess we will have to contact the Police or Council to remove or clamp it.

Maybe the law should allow private individuals to be able to clamp on the land they own.

Or here's a radical idea, people could use lockable posts or gates to protect property where there are known problems?! These solutions are highly effective (unless the person who wants to park there are an expert lock picker), relatively cheap (compared with other costs associated with protecting property such as fire/burglar alarm systems), and cost little to maintain.

Police already supposedly deal with problems on the roads, so if someone blocks your gated and locked driveway with your car on it then it's under their jurisdiction.

esmerobbo

Don't know if this is new or old as its not dated?

http://www.britishparking.co.uk/files/images/Press%20release%20re%20clamping%20ban%20-%20final%20August%202010.pdf

From:http://www.politicshome.com/uk/story/8367/wheel_clamping_ban_condemned.html

backfoot

What is so wonderfully reassuring is the tone of the various Government press releases on this topic.

They are all hard hitting,determined and written with a feeling of glee. I think they know they have widespread public support and this is one piece of legislation that brings good news.:D

If anything the proposals have firmed up rather than weakened since the original announcement.:T

Gosh I'm loving the gnashing of teeth. :rotfl:

Flyboy152

taffy056 wrote: »

Well it was a waste of time I suppose, his burying his head in the sand demanding that I predict the future like mystic meg, plus sorting out his problems regarding parking , just shows that he has no clue what he is talking about at all!

Oh dear, fantasising again. It is you who knows beggar all. You know nothing about an non-existent law. You can keep pretending you do, but it doesn't make it true. Or are saying as often as you can to see how many other fools believe you?

Also as links have been provided on here in regards to what is proposed from the government on their parliament website, I of course haven't read it, also as I have emailed the home office and my local mp's and read numorous articles in regards to this, of course I haven't researched this

Well you clearly haven't, because how can you tell us what is in non-existent legislation; the law hasn't been written yet, so how do you know what is in it.

You have side-stepped every question asked and pretended to not understand what is being requested. You spout rubbish about what will be made illegal, but when you are asked to prove it, you feign ignorance and tell people to look it up themselves. Your debating technique leaves an awful lot to be desired and is reminiscent of a first year student who thinks he knows everything, but really knows beggar all. When you are shown to be nothing more than a jumped up keyboard lawyer, you insult and berate other forum members and that, as a debating technique, has never been very successful.

Now this guy is burying his head in the sand and expects the government to provide him the right to have extorters and criminals on his land - LOL

I am fighting to have the right to quite enjoyment of my own property, without having to suffer trespass parkers, a practice you appear to fully condone.

I notice national clamps and the ethical trev was involved in the debacle above, so let's take a look at that, a landowner parked on her own land getting clamped, so this clamper trespasses on her land to clamp a car that is parked there with a permit, is that right ? So it's okay to do that according to mr troll because he uses the old chestnut of if it was somebody parked in your space etc, I mean next he will say if I parked in front of your drive

Well, you really have surpassed your lack of knowledge here, haven't you.

The permit was not visible; by the car owner's admission. Yes, they should have released the car when it was clear she had authority to park there, but the onus is on her to display her pass correctly. If it falls behind the tax disc, she should have secured it properly, shouldn't she? Or is not okay to suggest that it could have been as much her fault, as the clampers?

The clampers are employed by either the residents themselves, or the freeholder (or their management company) on their behalf. Therefore, they have an invitation to be present on that land and property, for the purpose of immobilising a vehcile, which they believe has no right to be there. The management company have presumably responded to the needs of the residents and employed a company to deter trespass parking. If the residents don't want the clampers there, they should take it up with the freeholders, or their management company. But I am sure, if this ban comes into place, they are the ones who will be asking the same questions as me. Are you going to tell them all to, "get a gate?"

Clamping is coming to an end,

You have no more idea of that than I do, despite your so-called research, which is severly lacking.

no longer will nurses on house calls, hearses with a coffin in, ambulances on call, delivery vans dropping parcels, pregnant women frogged matched to empty bank accounts, can't come soon enough!

Good. But all of that could have been achieved, regardlless of a ban. But there you have it; the ConDems governing by the Daily Heil.

oldone_2

There is a simple solution. Observe your car park to see when the first rogue car arrives. You then enter your car park just ahead of this time and block the entrance, pulling forward to let staff members in.When the park is full go about your days work.

This has to be less disruptive then a recptionist dropping work and going and asking people not to park.