Legality of parking on residential roads?

Sgt_Pepper_2

If 2 cars can pass you can get an artic in.

Obukit

So another thread where the OP comes expecting everyone to agree with them, then finds out the legalities and gets in a strop.

I was not saying it is not reasonable to want to park on your road, I was saying that LEGALLY SPEAKING the lorry driver is in the right. And clearly you could get out the way of the lorry by going onto the pavement if you did not want to reverse onto the dual carriageway. It is not a "sickening comment" to say that large vehicles run the risk of running over children when reversing, it is a FACT as they cannot see anything directly behind them, which is why trying to force them to reverse is so stupid.

musictomyears

Obukit wrote: »

So another thread where the OP comes expecting everyone to agree with them, then finds out the legalities and gets in a strop.

I was not saying it is not reasonable to want to park on your road, I was saying that LEGALLY SPEAKING the lorry driver is in the right. And clearly you could get out the way of the lorry by going onto the pavement if you did not want to reverse onto the dual carriageway. It is not a "sickening comment" to say that large vehicles run the risk of running over children when reversing, it is a FACT as they cannot see anything directly behind them, which is why trying to force them to reverse is so stupid.

If you're lucky you can go on the pavement (and at that time we were). The first time it happened there were cars parked on the road, and a bollard at the top, so there was no option but to reverse into the road, in rush hour traffic - how can that be reasonable???

Notmyrealname

musictomyears wrote: »

If you're lucky you can go on the pavement (and at that time we were). The first time it happened there were cars parked on the road, and a bollard at the top, so there was no option but to reverse into the road, in rush hour traffic - how can that be reasonable???

How is that any more reasonable than expecting a vehicle 53ft long to which by your own admission already has difficulty manouvering?

Perhaps if the driver of your car was competent and looked a bit further ahead than the end of their bonnet, they'd have seen what might and did happen by driving into the road and waited until the lorry had exited. Its called engaging ones brain.

I'm coming to the conclusion you don't actually drive.

Obukit

musictomyears wrote: »

If you're lucky you can go on the pavement (and at that time we were). The first time it happened there were cars parked on the road, and a bollard at the top, so there was no option but to reverse into the road, in rush hour traffic - how can that be reasonable???

You would not understand as I guess you have never driven an HGV but it would be ten times easier to reverse onto the M25 in a car, with near 360 degree visibility and no blind spots, than it is to try reverse an HGV down a narrow residential street. Having said that, there are vanishingly few turn offs from dual carriageways where there is not somewhere you can pull up out of the way - what would you do if an ambulance was coming up with blues and twos, just sit there and wait for it to reverse?

Additionally, if you mess up and hit something with your car worst case is a dent or scrape, if an HGV hits someone/something they will not know about it and will continue reversing, crushing a person or writing off a car.

Unfortunately many drivers simply aren't aware of how different it is driving a car and HGV and so don't drive considerately. I have had to get out and reverse other people's cars on narrow roads because they "can't reverse", despite them being 10 yards from a passing place, and expecting me to reverse back 200 yards instead.

Paradigm

Obukit wrote: »

Additionally, if you mess up and hit something with your car worst case is a dent or scrape, if an HGV hits someone/something they will not know about it and will continue reversing, crushing a person or writing off a car.

So given the above & the garage has another entrance, why is this one driver taking his truck up this road?

In fact, why would any artic driver take his truck up any residential street unless he really had no choice? I wouldn't in mine....

Obukit

Paradigm wrote: »

So given the above & the garage has another entrance, why is this one driver taking his truck up this road?

In fact, why would any artic driver take his truck up any residential street unless he really had no choice? I wouldn't in mine....

"Unless he really had no choice".

Obviously I don't know the situation but there must be some good reason, I doubt he drives up there for the kicks of being stuck for 45 mins and shouted at by residents. My guess would be that the garage have called up his company and had a go at them for using the other entrance and told them they lose the custom if they don't deliver to the back entrance.

Paradigm

Obukit wrote: »

Obviously I don't know the situation but there must be some good reason, I doubt he drives up there for the kicks of being stuck for 45 mins and shouted at by residents. My guess would be that the garage have called up his company and had a go at them for using the other entrance and told them they lose the custom if they don't deliver to the back entrance.

None of us (apart from the OP) know the situation so why are some jumping to conclusions RE: bad car drivers etc?

If this is true

The council installed concrete bollards along the corners of the road, to prevent the lorries coming through and mounting the kerb, damaging the pavement & kerbs

then with enough complaints a weight limit is sure to follow.... dunno how the garage will cope then.

Obukit

Paradigm wrote: »

None of us (apart from the OP) know the situation so why are some jumping to conclusions RE: bad car drivers etc?

For me it was when the OP said they reversed onto a dual carriageway the wrong way, facing oncoming traffic.

musioctomyears wrote:

Twice we've had to back onto the main road, in rush hour traffic (in the opposite direction to oncoming traffic)

If you have to reverse onto a DC at least reverse the right way, so people can see your reverse lights!

Paradigm

Obukit wrote: »

For me it was when the OP said they reversed onto a dual carriageway the wrong way, facing oncoming traffic.
If you have to reverse onto a DC at least reverse the right way, so people can see your reverse lights!

I can see that might be a little dangerous