"Times" Newspaper Carries Leader on PPC's

Goldhanger

Just to complete the picture on the two articles - this is to the "Times" leader on page two yesterday. Again without the http://

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AlexisV

"Motoring organisations are aghast at the sloppy drafting of the new legislation"

Kite2010

I would rather deal with a rogue ticketer than a rogue clamper, at least the rogue will be easy enough to ignore

HO87

NevMetson wrote: »

You miss the point, it is simply the scaremongering which will be the justification required by the BPA to ensure that all 'ticketers' rogue or otherwise have to pay membership fees to the BPA.

They don't care if they are rogues so long as they pay their fees.

Once they've paid up their membership to the BPA AOS then they can dine to their hearts content on the DVLA RK data, secure in the knowledge that their BPA membership fees provide them the necessary protection from scrutiny.

Precisely. The truth is that the rogue ticketer is alive and kicking, indeed, thriving and has been with us for a good few years.

This is exactly the point that Parliament needs to be made aware of and for Edmund King to imply that it is a new phenomenon is utter nonsense and demonstrates the complete lack of connection he nd his organisation has with reality on this subject. As previously suggested, the air on the top floors of Fanum House, Blasingsmoke is far too rarefied. A short trip up the road to Asda, Brighton Hill and an encounter with TCP might help to reconnect him.

Goldhanger

As suspected a reply is published on the letters page of the "Times" to-day (13 October 2011) in response to their article on PPC's. The reply comes from Patrick Troy, Chief Executive, BPA. He writes (my brackets):-

"Sir, You were right that rogue clampers are likely to simply turn their hand to unfairly priced ticketing (?!) after the ban on clamping (report, Oct 10), but you missed one crucial distinction. The British Parking Association (BPA) regulates (?!) 160 parking operators across the UK, and each one complies with a robust code of practice (?!). But there is an unknown number of unregulated companies which operate with impunity. That means that the government's latest move to support the introduction of an Independent Appeals Service, which the BPA will implement to protect motorists from unfair parking charges (?!), offers no protection against the cowboys, The government should now make it mandatory for all parking operators to join an accredited industry body and help to implement some form of regulation - without that, motorists will never be free of the scourge of a minority of rogue operators".

You couldn't make this up.............

notts_phil

Ive just read that ! What a joke. I've written a reply bk to the times

Sirdan

Patrick Troy is a liar ..he says

"The British Parking Association (BPA) regulates (?!) 160 parking operators across the UK,"

His own AOS complaints team got it right in their E-mail response to my complaint..

firstly they said

" BPA’s Approved Operator Scheme (AOS) which was developed to bring a degree of regulation to an industry without primary legislation. We are not a regularity authority....

and later to confirm the TRUTH ...

"You will appreciate that while we will endeavour to investigate every case to the fullest extent and to the best of our availability, we are not a regulatory body and as such do not have the powers to overturn decisions made by operators. "

Got that Patrick ??? Now stop lieing to Parliament.!!:mad:

Sirdan

It seems that Patrick Troy is trying to tell Parliament that his members are not the problem ..they aren't cowboys ..REALLY ????????????

I'd like to see him explain these facts :-

Parking Eye using camera systems that churn out tickets based on your first entry time and last exit time on multiple visits (Cowboys)

Town and Country , same as above (Cowboys)

Observices (OPC) convicted in a criminal court (Cowboys)

UKPC same as above (Cowboys)

APCOA notices with the word Penalty in six inch high letters only changed when I complained (Cowboys)

APCOA issuing tickets for people daring to allow their passengers to alight whilst legitimately stopped at a red light (Cowboys)

NCP issuing fake Railway bye-law tickets (Cowboys)

NCP putting a ticket on car in a yellow envelope with black checks and the words "Fixed penalty Notice" (Cowboys)

and I'm damn sure there are plenty more examples of the COWBOY behaviours of BPA members !

I'll say it again for clarity you Patrick TROY are a liar and a charlatan !:mad:

hillcats

BPA and all PPC's = cowboys trying to pretend they have some authority when they have NONE !

robredz

Yes it would appear that Patrick Troy is a complete charlatan, he is worse that a cowboy because he is peddling snake oil medicine in the guise of parking solutions. If this were the wild west he would have been lynched or run out of town by now.