Noisy Lorry Parking up at 3am

real1314

arcon5 wrote: »

Tax disc not on display, side lights not on, etc....Everyone's trying to find faults with the vehicle, doesn't really help much... this guy has to park somewhere and where ever he parks somebody will be inconvenienced & this guy is apparently parked legally....
If it's a large vehicle in the early hours of the morning, turning the reverse sensors off may not be viable.

Maybe this is just one of those things in life we can't control and just have to get on with...

You forgot to include your address and details of the parking facilities we can all use 24/7 at your property.

Incidentally, do you think that no tax is ok? Insurance? MOT? :cool:

skivenov

Depends a bit, my old 4 tonne truck didn't have MOT for the 3 years I had it.

Blackpool_Saver

I get woken at 5am by bottles being poured into a van, I yell out of the windows like a mad woman

david29dpo

For gods sake just let the tyres down, sorted!

Fire_Fox

Environmental Health at the local council deal with noise complaints.

arcon5

real1314 wrote: »

You forgot to include your address and details of the parking facilities we can all use 24/7 at your property.

It's obviously not ops parking facilities, but a public area. We have on street parking and I regularly get sick of motorbikes leaving in the middle of the night.. Realistically, what can we do? Expect them to push their vehicle to the end of the street? Which incidentally is just transferring the annoyance from myself to the flats at the end of the road... 'Not on my back door' though I guess?

Incidentally, do you think that no tax is ok? Insurance? MOT? :cool:

Don't take things out if context. Firstly, there is no mention of having no tax, just it not being on display. Secondly, op could report these issues fair enough.. Still doesn't resolve ops problem.. The guy will just get the issues sorted and continue parking his work vehicle as usual.

pinkteapot

Thanks for all the tips.

As luck would have it, bumped into him as I got home yesterday! (Must have been starting later than usual)

I said I was sorry to be a pain and I appreciated that he had to work those hours, but that the reversing alarm is very loud. He was friendly, apologised for the disturbance and said he'd "sort it out". Don't know what he meant but it wasn't parked there when I woke up this morning. However, that might be because three of our neighbours had coincedentally street-parked so there wasn't room for him (they never normally park over there). So we may not have been the only people he was disturbing!

Didn't pay attention to the plates so I'm not sure whether they were GB/NI.

If the lorry is dodgy in any way then maybe he'll park elsewhere if he knows he's annoying people, so as not to attract attention. His tax disc may well have been in date BTW - there were a few of them stuffed in the holder but the uppermost one was back to front so the reverse was displayed instead of the front. Could just have been put in round the wrong way by mistake.

spiro

Lots of councils have restrictions that apply to were a lorry of 7.5t and above can park and typically this is not in residential roads, they should be in a lorry park or the operators yard.

CKhalvashi

arcon5 wrote: »

It's obviously not ops parking facilities, but a public area. We have on street parking and I regularly get sick of motorbikes leaving in the middle of the night.

I've got quite a racy-sounding diesel engine on mine when it's put on kickdown and noone's complained yet.

Motorbikes would probably be a different kettle of fish, though.

CK

skivenov

spiro wrote: »

Lots of councils have restrictions that apply to were a lorry of 7.5t and above can park and typically this is not in residential roads, they should be in a lorry park or the operators yard.

Daf 45's are generally 7.5 tonne.