Unrest in the Parking industry, Upset from the inside - From Pepipoo

taffy056

I'm sending them to the Steve chappy who is doing the signs thing. He seems to like receiving them, I get the feeling he dislikes ppcs perhaps he's one of us ? Lol

HO87

The BPA are trying to bend their head around two of mine at the moment but have gone awfully quiet over the last couple of weeks. My respondent at the DVLA (I suspect the same person as you've been in contact with C_M) has endeavoured to bat mine back but has just had another one in return. I have another complaint in the works but it's a bit more of a biggy and I'm still putting the documents together.

bargepole

It's also being suggested, in the Pepipoo thread referred to by the OP, that many of the smaller PPCs are extremely unhappy with the BPA, and regard the whole POPLA setup as much of a waste of space as we do.

There are mutterings that some want to set up a new Trade Association in competition with the BPA. The problem is that, according to DVLA's own rules, any such organisation would have to serve a 6 month probationary period before being granted ATA status, and consequent electronic access to RK data. So in the short term at least, it's the BPA way or no way.

There's clearly a lot more fallout to come from this, and it wouldn't be surprising if the greed of some of the players (think horses and yachts) brought about the demise of the industry in its current form, in the same way clamping self-destructed.

trisontana

All that needs to be done is to wind back the clock ten years or so and have the supermarkets and retail parks supervise their own car-parks. That's how it used to be, with a barrier at the entrance to the car-park manned by an employee of the supermarket checking receipts. Or just have a pay on exit system. That way you get rid of PPCs completely.

taffy056

Or have no barriers and no ppc at all like the majority of car parks local to me. I can only think of 1 place in my area that probably needs someone on a barrier checking receipts and that is tesco in Swansea city centre, and that is it, all others don't really need it as they are out of town retail parks or there is no real problem, well until a ppc turns up

bazster

Given that POPLA (such as it is) was the quid pro quo for RK liability it's hard to imagine even the spineless DVLA recognising a trade association that didn't require its members to use POPLA.

taffy056

Only the AOS members can use popla though, the rest cannot.

ppc_guy

Popla is not a requirement for anything. An independent appeals service is

taffy056

So can a driver insist it goes to popla then after appeals to the company fails ? Does a company have a choice to pull out first if the driver says he wants to use popla ?

bargepole

taffy056 wrote: »

So can a driver insist it goes to popla then after appeals to the company fails ? Does a company have a choice to pull out first if the driver says he wants to use popla ?

POPLA will only consider an appeal after the PPC in-house "appeal" procedure has been used and the appeal rejected.