Lorrys are parking right outside my front window

mikey72

Car drived vans are LGV. Don't put 7.5t in a Berlingo though.

Tilt

mikey72 wrote: »

Car drived vans are LGV. Don't put 7.5t in a Berlingo though.

No sorry. LGV= Large Goods Vehicle. Same meaning now as HGV. Your'e not thinking of PLG are you?

Hammyman

marvin wrote: »

Hammyman have you had a sense of humour bypass? I don't think either suggestion you complain about was meant seriously.

No, just 16 years of suffering abuse from Joe Public because I happened to drive a lorry delivering goods that they buy. "You can't park that effin thing here" was a common one but where were we supposed to park when every single truckstop application was opposed by NIMBYS and moronic caravanners took over the HGV parks in MSAs?

Hammyman

dktreesea wrote: »

Fair points, but why shouldn't truck drivers who need to park somewhere other than their haulage yard over night be considerate and not park their rig outside someone's house on a residential street? It can't be very nice for the home owner.

Its not very nice for the lorry driver either who has to park up in a place with no showers, no place for a wash, no toilet and no access to a hot meal.

Hammyman

alcot33uk wrote: »

Yes that one truck feeds us all..... starve and die my !!!!....

During the fuel protests shop shelves started to go empty....

How quickly do you think you could grow enough veg to feed your family 7 days a week every week?

Hammyman

getmore4less wrote: »

get together with the neibours

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

Another moronic suggestion. What happens if there's a fire in the middle of the night? People die because the fire engines path is blocked by cars. You'd also block ambulances as well because they're a couple of feet wider than a car.

Hammyman

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Rubbish.

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Post me the law which states lorries have to park in truckstops, MSAs or industrial estates?

I'll view a lack of response an admission that you're talking out of your backside.

Hammyman

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.

However it is still perfectly legal as long as there's no lorry ban or weight restriction.

jase1

Box them in. And take three quarters of an hour to get around to moving the adjacent cars out of the way.

They won't do it twice.

optimus_primera

It all depends on the O'licence you apply for.
We have ol's that state our trucks (7.5t,12 and 18 tonners) have to be parked up on/in the relevant depots overnight.
Then you get ol's that the hauliers use, where they can park up anywhere overnight,as they travel the length and breadth of the country.Yes they have to have a named 'base' so to speak, but they are not expected to have to stay there every night.

If they did this country would grind to a halt very very quickly.