Naming the Driver....... Lucrative ?

HardWorker2010_2

Being a busy man, running my own businesses and being the Registered Keeper for a fleet of vehicles I anticipate quite a few letters from PPCs asking me to tell them who was driving when one of their scam tickets/ANPR tickets was issued.

Obviously I don't want this extra task to impact on my main role but it would seem that I have no option if I want to avoid being pursued by the PPC as the RK instead of the driver.

To fully investigate who was driving and verifying I have the correct information could take up a significant amount of my time. In fact more time than I am willing to give away for free to another business who intend to use the information I provide to generate their income.

As such I will write back offering to carry out the work after they have paid for my time. My standard rate when offering my time as a consultant is £55.00 +VAT per hour with a minimum charge of one hour when the work can be done without leaving my office.

I will make it plain that I am not refusing to name the driver but need to be compensated for my pre-estimate of loss while carrying out the work they have asked me to do.

If they refuse to engage me on the above terms then I will either just continue down the ignore route I have trodden so many times in the past, or take up a little of my time and pee £27+VAT of their money down the drain in a fruitless (for them) appeal procedure, and then ignore them.

AlexisV

You may wish to state that should a county court claim be made against you, as the Registered Keeper, you will counterclaim for your amount.

The RK is only 'invited' to provide information, so I can see that to do so would incur costs.

Coupon-mad

I like that response. All hire & lease co's should just do that as a standard reply.

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The_Slithy_Tove

Coupon-mad wrote: »

I like that response. All hire & lease co's should just do that as a standard reply.

Would be nice, but they have a habit of passing that cost onto the driver rather than the PPC.

esmerobbo

That was my approach before I ignored them, I also had a fleet so got them on a regular basis. I simply wrote back saying as there was no statutory right to the information they wanted, they could have it on a commercial basis. I used to ask them for the same as they claimed!

Only one ever got back saying they would pay after they got the info! Yea OK, ignored them and never heard from them again.

Pity I only have a few registered to me now, I haven't had an invoice for ages!

forgotmyname

Nothing to do with the invoices and begging letters. But..
If you run a fleet you should already know who was driving that vehicle at that time though.

I like the idea of sending them a bill for supplying the requested, Data.
The DVLA do it. £55+vat maybe a bit steep though.

£12.50 sounds like a nice number. Or offer them a years membership for £55+vat?

HardWorker2010_2

forgotmyname wrote: »

Nothing to do with the invoices and begging letters. But..
If you run a fleet you should already know who was driving that vehicle at that time though.

I like the idea of sending them a bill for supplying the requested, Data.
The DVLA do it. £55+vat maybe a bit steep though.

£12.50 sounds like a nice number. Or offer them a years membership for £55+vat?

Steep? That's cheap in my industry. I could easily demonstrate a loss of £55 +VAT if I had to stop working on a client's job to deal with a PPC request.

I could perhaps offer them a 5% discount if they wanted to prepay for a batch of 10 hours.;)

stacey_pat

Love this! im tempted to offer the information for the price of the invoice and pay them with their own money!
If you had a ticket before oct 1st and were not the driver is there any way you could be forced to give the details of the driver??

bazster

stacey_pat wrote: »

If you had a ticket before oct 1st and were not the driver is there any way you could be forced to give the details of the driver??

No. What's more, if you get a ticket after October 1st, they can't force you to name the driver. I guess the BPA would've liked the power to apply thumbscrews or throw you in the Tower of London, but they didn't get it.

esmerobbo

forgotmyname wrote: »

Nothing to do with the invoices and begging letters. But..
If you run a fleet you should already know who was driving that vehicle at that time though.

I like the idea of sending them a bill for supplying the requested, Data.
The DVLA do it. £55+vat maybe a bit steep though.

£12.50 sounds like a nice number. Or offer them a years membership for £55+vat?

I could pull specific drivers details in seconds, but then I would have to see if the vehicle was in the area claimed!

£55 is not steep they would be paying for what you know, not for what you do!;)