How to get back at traffic wardens???

runningben16

I used to work for a haulage company which had hundreds of deliveries every day into central London. Most of these stores had no access to deliver, other than by parking illegally. At the end of every day, the drivers would hand their tickets in along with their other paperwork, and we just added the fines to the invoice we charged the customer. In the end, it's the store customers who were paying the tickets.

InsideInsurance

Nilrem wrote: »

I suspect the delivery drivers know the wardens if it's a regular route, and also know that the tickets will be disputed by their companies and probably cancelled (IIRC it's incredibly common for that to happen).

On the basis they are on first name terms with each other they certainly do know each other. Seen them drive up, wave to the warden who's half way down the street from their cab, get out, walk down the street to chat to them, go about their delivery and come back out just in time to take the ticket off them in person, have a bit of banter and then drive off.

You do get the occasional driver thats annoyed at being ticketed but most of them dont care in the slightest

Out of curiosity, on what grounds do the companies get the tickets cancelled for?

DoctorFoster

Going back to this, which I assume is a serious question from the op.

scott1506 wrote: »

i really hate them, never care what so ever. try to explain to them and they just turn backs, very rude. how do i get my own back or really ruin there day for a change?

Would smashing his missus be

A. Reasonable
B. Proportionate

For a £30 ticket?

societys_child

Out of curiosity, on what grounds do the companies get the tickets cancelled for?

Doubt they do, it's just one of the expenses of doing the job.

InsideInsurance

societys_child wrote: »

Doubt they do, it's just one of the expenses of doing the job.

Thats what I assumed, and unfortunately not a tax deductible one. Hence surprised that the other poster thought there were easy get outs.

I did previously hear that delivery drivers often take a hit of some description if they incur them, no idea of the truth in that, but certainly these guys dont seem to otherwise they certainly wouldnt be so friendly with the wardens (esp as it never stops them being ticketed)

Slowly_does_it..

PenguinJim wrote: »

(Does anyone have a transcript of the original? I feel I've butchered it here!)

The one I have read is;

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting.
Well, for example, the other day, Sue my wife and I went into town and visited a shop.

When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket.

We went up to him and I said, 'Come on, man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?'
He ignored us and continued writing the ticket.
I called him an “a--hole” . He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn-out tires.

So Sue called him a “s--t head”. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first.
Then he started writing more tickets. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote.

Just then our bus arrived, and we got on it and went home.

We try to have a little fun each day now that we're retired. It's important at our age.

PenguinJim

That's the one!

I... was not close. Yikes. Not even Hollywood Adaptation close! :eek:

Nilrem

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Out of curiosity, on what grounds do the companies get the tickets cancelled for?

IIRC in many cases wardens are meant to allow a certain time frame for deliveries before issuing tickets, unfortunately most wardens tend to be under pressure to issue tickets and the council doesn't seem to add up the cost of issuing tickets that are repeatedly cancelled vs the income (I suspect many wardens aren't allowed much leeway to use their own judgement, probably in the name of stamping out any chance of corruption or whatever).

I think the key thing is if the company has proof they did a delivery at that time (IE order/delivery sheet).

Of course they add the average cost of unsuccessful appeals to the price of their services, the same way they add the cost of the congestion charge etc to their costs.

JustinR1979

InsideInsurance wrote: »

I always find my walk into the office from the tube station amusing. There are always several delivery lorries parked on double yellow lines in the area as most the other roads are red routes and almost without fail a traffic warden or two about.

Unlike anywhere else in the UK though the traffic wardens and the drivers are really friendly to each other, many seem to know each other by name and have a chat whilst the warden issues them a ticket. Normally they part company with the ticket being handed over, a shake of the hand and a "keep well" or such. Even overheard a few saying "see you tomorrow"

It does somewhat make a mockery of the whole fine aspect of it but at least shows that some people can accept that wardens are just doing their job

This applies to me, all our tickets get overturned, so is no need to get stroppy with them.
Deliveries have to happen, is ridiculous if there's nowhere to park without being ticketed.

scott1506

so after much debate ive decided to drive by them when not looking and beep my horn really loudly so that it gives them a fright! they should think of that all day and hopefully not get to sleep at night :DDDD