How to get back at traffic wardens???

InsideInsurance

Ebe_Scrooge wrote: »

Correct - loading & unloading is permitted, unless there are additional short vertical double-yellows on the kerb, which means "no loading" ( in addition to no parking ).

There are no markers on the kerb on this road but there are several signs saying No Loading Mon-Fri 7am to 7pm

marvin

As others have pointed out Park legally and you will annoy them because if everyone did this they would be without a job.

However, if you are there explaining to them why? Once issued nothing they can do you have to argue your case with the issuing authority.

If they have not issued, don't explain just get in your car and drive off.

roonaldo

What a waste of a post. Oh boo hoo you rightfully got a parking ticket and the warden didnt want to hear your pathetic excuses for parking illegally. And you think he should be all polite and rip up the ticket because you shout abuse at him? Grow up.

Ebe_Scrooge

InsideInsurance wrote: »

There are no markers on the kerb on this road but there are several signs saying No Loading Mon-Fri 7am to 7pm

Fair point - either markers on the kerb or signs, quite often both. The point is, double-yellows on their own do allow for loading. At least, when I learnt the highway code, oh so many years ago

An interesting side-story. Many years ago, I was in town and wanted to stop at the cash-point. No parking nearby, so pulled up outside the cashpoint while I nipped over to it. Double-yellows. Just got out of my car, police car comes past past, winds his window down. I didn't realise I'd actually parked partially on zig-zags approaching a zebra crossing ( yes, I was young and careless at the time ! ). The copper, bless him, said "Be a good chap and pull back onto the double yellows. We don't mind people stopping there to use the cashpoint, but take a very dim view of stopping on the zig-zags". Can't argue with an attitude like that, fair play to him !

fridgeracer

drive around with a fake foreign EU number plate. they come here and don't get insurance, or speeding tickets, or parking fines - so do the exact same thing.

Richard53

Ebe_Scrooge wrote: »

The copper, bless him, said "Be a good chap and pull back onto the double yellows. We don't mind people stopping there to use the cashpoint, but take a very dim view of stopping on the zig-zags". Can't argue with an attitude like that, fair play to him !

Funnily enough, I had almost word-for-word the same advice from a copper when I did the same thing close to home. He further explained that whereas double-yellows are a matter of people's convenience, zig-zags are a matter of people's safety. Fair point, well made, and adhered to ever since.

patman99

There are 2 legal ways to avoid a parking ticket whilst still parking on a DYL.

1. When stopped, open the bonnet and pretend to have a fiddle around with the engine. A brocken-down vehicle cannot be ticketed (info from a local CEO).

2. Cover your number plate with a piece of paper or card. The CEO (Traffic Warden) has no legal power to touch your vehicle other than to apply the ticket to the screen. If they do, they have commited a criminal act. I have used this ploy myself when parking my van outside a mates house whilst doing some work and had the pleasure of watching 2 parkies trying to see if they could read the plates. They failed and left).

You could of course, place a piece of cardboard over the DYL before putting your vehicle on top. This renders the DYLs unenforceable.

scott1506

patman99 wrote: »

There are 2 legal ways to avoid a parking ticket whilst still parking on a DYL.

1. When stopped, open the bonnet and pretend to have a fiddle around with the engine. A brocken-down vehicle cannot be ticketed (info from a local CEO).

2. Cover your number plate with a piece of paper or card. The CEO (Traffic Warden) has no legal power to touch your vehicle other than to apply the ticket to the screen. If they do, they have commited a criminal act. I have used this ploy myself when parking my van outside a mates house whilst doing some work and had the pleasure of watching 2 parkies trying to see if they could read the plates. They failed and left).

You could of course, place a piece of cardboard over the DYL before putting your vehicle on top. This renders the DYLs unenforceable.

thanks patman, after many days of crud reply's, i finally get some good advice. cheers mate i also thanked you too. tally ho with the cardboard hahaha

patman99

Yes, at the time I and my mate had popped 2 doors down to visit a couple of former workmates and stood there with a mug of tea watching the CEOs walking round and round the van scratching their heads.

w211

InsideInsurance wrote: »

There are no markers on the kerb on this road but there are several signs saying No Loading Mon-Fri 7am to 7pm

There should be (single) markers, denoting that there is a restriction to un/loading. If not, isn't it unenforceable?