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Lorrys are parking right outside my front window

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  • mikey72
    mikey72 Posts: 14,680 Forumite
    Tilt wrote: »
    Very true, but in a previous post you said 'Nothing to do with VOSA' which is wrong because it may be the case that the O licence conditions in respect of where the vehicle is being regularly kept over night are being breached. To obtain an O licence in the first place, you have to have a depot, yard or similar to keep your vehicle(s) in.

    You don't actually. You need an agreed parking area,which, in some cases, could be the space outside your own house.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Tilt wrote: »
    Very true, but in a previous post you said 'Nothing to do with VOSA' which is wrong because it may be the case that the O licence conditions in respect of where the vehicle is being regularly kept over night are being breached. To obtain an O licence in the first place, you have to have a depot, yard or similar to keep your vehicle(s) in.

    I am not sure that is totally correct. I always thought that it had to be an assigned location, not specified as to what that location was.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Tilt
    Tilt Posts: 3,599 Forumite
    edited 17 February 2011 at 3:37PM
    mikey72 wrote: »
    You don't actually. You need an agreed parking area,which, in some cases, could be the space outside your own house.

    No way will the TC's issue an O licence to an operator of an HGV who hasn't got suitable off road parking facilities. They are known as 'authorised operating centres' I've been down this 'road' so I do know something about it.
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    My advice should be used as guidance only. You should always obtain face to face professional advice before taking any action.
  • Flying-High_2
    Flying-High_2 Posts: 761 Forumite
    Tilt wrote: »
    No way will VOSA issue an O licence to an operator of an HGV who hasn't got suitable off road parking facilities. I've been down this 'road' so I do know something about it.

    Too True........

    Owned/Leased premises or permission to park on someone elses yards. Access and all sorts come into it.. Each O License applications published to give the Neighbours chance to object.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    The regs state that an operating centre is where the vehicles are "normally" kept overnight. This, however, means that occasionally they are allowed to be away from the operating centre overnight. If, for example, the vehicle is on a journey where it can't be returned to the operating centre at night, it can be parked somewhere appropriately. That said, on a residential road, four feet away from someones window, is probably not appropriate.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Tilt
    Tilt Posts: 3,599 Forumite
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    The regs state that an operating centre is where the vehicles are "normally" kept overnight. This, however, means that occasionally they are allowed to be away from the operating centre overnight. If, for example, the vehicle is on a journey where it can't be returned to the operating centre at night, it can be parked somewhere appropriately. That said, on a residential road, four feet away from someones window, is probably not appropriate.

    Nail on the head! :T
    PLEASE NOTE
    My advice should be used as guidance only. You should always obtain face to face professional advice before taking any action.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Tilt wrote: »
    Nail on the head! :T
    But it still does not neceassarily make it a VOSA issue.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • mikey72
    mikey72 Posts: 14,680 Forumite
    Tilt wrote: »
    No way will the TC's issue an O licence to an operator of an HGV who hasn't got suitable off road parking facilities. They are known as 'authorised operating centres' I've been down this 'road' so I do know something about it.

    HGV?
    A 3.5 t van is transit sized.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    mikey72 wrote: »
    HGV?
    A 3.5 t van is transit sized.

    Anything over three and a half tonnes is a LGV.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Tilt
    Tilt Posts: 3,599 Forumite
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    Anything over three and a half tonnes is a LGV.

    That's partially correct. 3.5 tons unladen or 7.5 tons gross.
    PLEASE NOTE
    My advice should be used as guidance only. You should always obtain face to face professional advice before taking any action.
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