parking a large company vehicle

McCoy

Gilbert2 wrote: »

Or just move where parking won't be an issue if it's that much of a bother to you.

Gilbert2 wrote: »

...accept that he lives in an area where parking is an issue or move to where it isn't.

Gilbert2 wrote: »

My advice is move or lump it!

Gilbert2 wrote: »

If he don't like it, move.

I think we get the idea Gilbert2.

Gilbert2 wrote: »

Basically, I told him to live on Southfork Ranch if he didn't want to live with other people who may have vehicles.

I could be wrong but I have the feeling that Southfork Ranch is both taken and, more importantly, fictional.

Gilbert2

alleycat` wrote: »

If you think that all you've said is correct i don't want you working for me.

Parking a company liveried vehicle in a stupid place, where you can't keep an eye on it and peeing off my potential customers...
Genius...

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I wouldn't want to work for you, or anyone, I have my own business.

That answers that.

Parking a company vehicle on a public highway quite legally, where there is obviously no other alternative, is not stupid.

And peeing off potential customers? Well you can't please all of the people all of the time and I doubt I'd go out of business simply because some busybodies are narked because they can't be bothered to turn their neck around to negotiate a parked vehicle!

Tilt

Gilbert2 wrote: »

I wouldn't want to work for you, or anyone, I have my own business.

That answers that.

Parking a company vehicle on a public highway quite legally, where there is obviously no other alternative, is not stupid.

And peeing off potential customers? Well you can't please all of the people all of the time and I doubt I'd go out of business simply because some busybodies are narked because they can't be bothered to turn their neck around to negotiate a parked vehicle!

But there is an alternative... he leaves the work's truck at err, work. I doubt very much it is insured for the driver's private use anyway.

Gilbert2

Tilt wrote: »

I doubt very much that the driver 'owns' the truck. And how do you actually know that the truck is parked legally? Have you seen it??

Have you? No, so how come you have an opinion and I do not?

Kinda makes you look a bit silly.

In any case, via the posts on this thread, it is quite clear the truck is parked on a public road without restrictions.

In other words, quite legally.

All you seem concerned with is agreeing with the OP that it is a bit of a pain.

You're just the same as him, a whinger.

Gilbert2

Tilt wrote: »

But there is an alternative... he leaves the work's truck at err, work. I doubt very much it is insured for the driver's private use anyway.

What!?

Why are you assuming things?
Why not comment on what is written?

You don't know anything about the place of work, whether or not there is a yard to park or whatever.

You don't know the insurance arrangement this company has.

You don't know anything, although it doesn't stop you posting.

alleycat`

As a business man you should know that one bad impression or review does a damn site more damage than one good review does.
It also costs a lot more money to get new customers than it does to keep customers.

On that basis your opinion surprise me that you'd want employees of yours (assuming you have any) causing your company name grief.

"!!!!!! em i can always get more" is not the mantra of a quality business in economically hard times.

My personal opinion, which i accept is opinion is that no company vehicle should be parked on a residential street where the "driver" doesn't live, unless it is somewhere out of the way.
They especially should not, in my opinion, be doing it in such a way as to cause someone to have to perform an excessive maneuver to get in or out of their drive.

We have a "dead end" to a field near us that several larger vehicles get "layed up" in and that is a sensible place for them to be.

It doesn't make someone a "whinger" when someone is making life difficult for, what appears to be, very little good reason.

The OP could easily ramp this up by just leaving their car in the road for a couple of weeks and taking the bus instead.

vaio

needtosavecash wrote: »

well to me and for where its being parked its oversized, hardly your bread and butter mondeao is it ........

We've got a van like that just outside my window in the car park which happens to be parked next to a Mondeo.

It doesn't look that much wider and google (for what it's worth) says the width difference is only 107mm. So, assuming that the parked van is replaced by a parked car, you aren't going to be much better off..

Tilt

Gilbert2 wrote: »

Have you? No, so how come you have an opinion and I do not?

Didn't say you don't have an opinion BUT you seem to presume a lot considering you do not know the area or the road.

Gilbert2 wrote: »

Kinda makes you look a bit silly.

Err, I think you should look in the mirror.

Gilbert2 wrote: »

In any case, via the posts on this thread, it is quite clear the truck is parked on a public road without restrictions. In other words, quite legally.

So you know for a fact that it is parked facing the correct way at night, not within 10 meters of a road junction, is not in a dangerous position or where it causes any unnecessary obstruction of the road etc? No? Well neither do I!

Gilbert2 wrote: »

All you seem concerned with is agreeing with the OP that it is a bit of a pain.

Oh... I am sorry if it pains you that I am agreeing with the OP. But unlike you I am looking at this from a reasonable point of view, taking into account the respect that someone should have for the residents when parking their works vehicle.

Gilbert2 wrote: »

You're just the same as him, a whinger.

Ha, an adolescent comment if ever I heard one. Boy, you must really be a good considerate neighbour!

CKhalvashi

Ich wrote: »

Also check your deeds, there are a lot of estates where parking of marked company vehicles is prohibited in the house deeds

I've got away with it for at least 6 years, although my latest car isn't signwritten.

needtosavecash wrote: »

i think it is just a 3.5t truck it just looks/is a lot wider/longer than his old transit was

its a mercades, with a pick up/tip style back onit, 62 plate, had a load of numbers as the modle number on the back

scotsman4th wrote: »

Are you sure?

I thought it changed and it was now any lorry, bus or van over 3500KG (or 3.5t) Gross Vehicle Weight or Maximum Authorised Mass (MAM).

Happy to stand corrected though, wouldnt want to be giving people duff information.

Does the Sprinter have a '3' or '5' as the first number?

I ask this, as I'm allowed to bring our 318's home, but not our new 515's, even though they both have 8 passenger seats, one is (technically) over 3.5t, the other isn't.

CK

Tilt

Gilbert2 wrote: »

What!?

Why are you assuming things?

Pot, kettle, black springs to mind!

Gilbert2 wrote: »

Why not comment on what is written?

I am, what about you?

Gilbert2 wrote: »

You don't know anything about the place of work, whether or not there is a yard to park or whatever.

Well I know that every HSS depot I have seen (so far) has a a yard!

Gilbert2 wrote: »

You don't know the insurance arrangement this company has.

Of course I don't which is why I used the word DOUBT in my post which means I wasn't making a definitive comment.

Gilbert2 wrote: »

You don't know anything, although it doesn't stop you posting.

Pot, kettle, black springs to mind!:D