UKPC & Compnay car

robdav1969

Hi all,

Some advice please.


1) Where you were ticketed ie England/Wales - England
2) When you were ticketed ie - Last week
3) The name of the company helps - UKPC
4) Whether you have contacted the company already - only to ask about appeal process
5) At what stage you are at, for example debt collectors writing to you. -no letters yet.
6) Whether you are the Registered Keeper of the vehicle - no it's a company car (leased)

so returned to the car 20 minutes before expiry time on ticket. it's a car park where you need a ticket but the 1st hour is free. retuned after just 40 minutes.

ticket from UKPC stuck on windscreen saying "parked without clearly displaying a valid pay and display ticket"

I was in posession of a vaild ticket, it was on the dashboard. only issue was that it had flipped over when the door was closed.

Now i've read all about ignoring the letters etc which I am happy to do, but as it's a company car the registered keeper is the lease company. problem here is that if i pick up any "fines/parking tickets" etc then the lease company will charge me.

so where do i stand? do i contact the lease company, explain the situation and tell them i am dealing with it?

also - is it worth appealing? i'm guessing not, however i have all the evidence i need to fight this, valid ticket, time called ukpc which was within the 1 hour etc.

many thanks

Stroma

In this you need to do a soft appeal to get them writing to you

name
address
date

Hello UKPC

I would like appeal your parking invoice xxxx dated xx/xx/xxxx , I paid to park on this date and enclosed is a copy of ticket. I therefore deny any liability to your company at all.

If you reject my appeal I require that you provide me with a popla verification code within 35 days of this letter/email , per the BPA Code of Practice.

I have nothing further to add at this time , and look forward to the confirmation of the cancelation of this invoice, or the popla code to appeal independently.

Love and kisses

Not a mug

robdav1969

Brilliant, thank you! I will put something simliar together.

I'm guessing that they will then contact me directly and not the lease company therfore avoiding the need for the lease company to do anything??

Stroma

Exactly you are hooking them to you, once they know who was driving they cannot go back to the lease company or your employers. You can then decide whether to ignore them or appeal and go through popla

Kite2010

Contact them to get them writing to you, saves having to deal with dodgy lease companies paying it on your behalf adding on an admin fee.

Guys_Dad

Kite2010 wrote: »

Contact them to get them writing to you, saves having to deal with dodgy lease companies paying it on your behalf adding on an admin fee.

Very sound advice. And it's not just dodgy lease companies either !

Coupon-mad

Stroma wrote: »

In this you need to do a soft appeal to get them writing to you

name
address
date

Hello UKPC

I would like appeal your parking invoice xxxx dated xx/xx/xxxx , I paid to park on this date and enclosed is a copy of ticket. I therefore deny any liability to your company at all.

If you reject my appeal I require that you provide me with a popla verification code within 35 days of this letter/email , per the BPA Code of Practice.

I have nothing further to add at this time , and look forward to the confirmation of the cancelation of this invoice, or the popla code to appeal independently.

Love and kisses

Not a mug

That's a good example of a short appeal to try to get a POPLA code.

Alternatively, here's a new example of a very long 'legal challenge to a PPC' template letter that a driver/keeper can use all or part of if they prefer this sort of approach:

http://www.parkingcowboys.co.uk/appeal-letter/

It looks complicated but much of it makes sense even to a non-legal trained eye like mine and most posters on here. And people can use it as a 'pick and mix' sort of template to put PPCs to proof of stuff that they are unlikely to want to show POPLA - so will likely then see their fake PCN cancelled by POPLA!

Stroma

That looks like that barrister letter some time ago, are they basing it on that I wonder?

Coupon-mad

Stroma wrote: »

That looks like that barrister letter some time ago, are they basing it on that I wonder?

Yep it's based on Tim Kevan's barrister's blog.