Lorrys are parking right outside my front window

pelirocco

If the vehicle is 7.5t and over it should have an operators licence disk in the window , this will show the company name , contact them if its a problem . However I doubt very much the vehicle is as large as some people on here are assuming , the Op says its a narrow road

mikey72

pelirocco wrote: »

If the vehicle is 7.5t and over it should have an operators licence disk in the window , this will show the company name , contact them if its a problem . However I doubt very much the vehicle is as large as some people on here are assuming , the Op says its a narrow road

3.5t for an operators licence, which specifies the vehicles overnight parking space.
And in spite of Hammyman's protests, any driver than runs out of hours in front of his house every day is either trying it on, or needs a new job with less planning anyway.

Wh05apk

We had an issue with this a few years ago, a neigbour was bringing his tractor unit home each night, parking under our bedroom window, then spent 5 minutes running each morning to warm up at about 5am before he drove off, complained to the council and it was soon stopped, as has been said, they need to park overnight in the correct places.

I have no issues with trucks/truckers, they are essential to our economy, and accept taht occasionally they run out of hours, but if this is a regular occurence it is out of order.

Do you have a car? could you park outside your house to stop the truck parking there?

getmore4less

get together with the neibours

park strategicly so the road is very narrow at at least one point just car width.

Also so of the gaps between the cars are large enough for big vehicles but are for another car sort of car, gap, car, gap. so room for every one but not the big stuff.

Tilt

getmore4less wrote: »

get together with the neibours

park strategicly so the road is very narrow at at least one point just car width.

Also so of the gaps between the cars are large enough for big vehicles but are for another car sort of car, gap, car, gap. so room for every one but not the big stuff.

...including fire engines (?)

Strider590

Hammyman wrote: »

What a really stupid idea. It could result in a lorry driver potentially in charge of 44 tonnes driving with little sleep which could result in someone s death. Do you actually have a functioning brain?

Hmmmmmmmz, none of us have seen where this is happening.... So im assuming the worst and likening it (in the only way I can) to finding a 7.5t parked on my own front lawn.... In which case a strobe light and lack of sleep would be the least of his worries.

I appreciate people have a job to do, but during winter 2009 someone parked and left overnight a large brick lorry (with the crane etc) at the end of my street, it was double parked and made leaving for my morning shift IMPOSSIBLE at 4:30am... It was also parked across a new driveway which didn't yet have a dropped kerb. I had to go around waking up neighbours, but I was still late for work and came >< this close to losing my job.

Flyboy152

Gene_Hunt wrote: »

They may well be in breach of their operators licence, not parking them in a suitable place over night. VOSA may be a good agency to contact.

Nothing to do with VOSA, it is a local authority issue.

Flyboy152

Hammyman wrote: »

You can park a lorry where the hell you like if you have insufficient time to get back to the operating center as long as its not in a Lorry Ban Zone or over the weight limit for the area.

There is no law that says lorries have to park in motorway services, truck stops (not that there's room due to lorry hating knobs campaigning against them) or industrial estates.

Rubbish.

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Flyboy152

Hammyman wrote: »

No.



The only chance she has is if it is someone who drives for the company taking the wagon home and parking it there instead of the companies registered operating center HOWEVER that only applies if the operating center is within reasonable distance - for example, it could be that the driver works for a company 50/100/200 miles away and has a run where they run out of time near home so take the wagon home. That is legal.

For heaven's sake.

Flyboy152

Tilt wrote: »

If the vehicle(s) are over a certain weight (3.5 tons), then they must display parking lights at night if they are parked on a public road. If in your'e case they aren't, maybe you can persue it from that angle.

If that was the only thing wrong, all that would happen is they would be told to turn their lights on; the operator turns his lights on and no change to the OP's problem.