How to get back at traffic wardens???

nobbysn*ts

patman99 wrote: »

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.

Did that in the last two weeks then? Or did you get the ticket for not displaying the tax disc, with your registration on, instead. Or just simply get prosecuted under The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001. Good story apart from that.

DoctorFoster

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.

Really?


I see you've already been picked up about the tax disc.

roonaldo

scott1506 wrote: »

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

like your question wasnt cruddy.

JustinR1979

roonaldo wrote: »

like your question wasnt cruddy.

Indeed, question received the contempt it deserved

Iceweasel

w211 wrote: »

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

Correct - loading restrictions need both kerb-markers and notices, to be enforceable.

A single marker mean there are restrictions at certain times - a double kerb-marker means no loading at any time.

Because the allied paperwork is part of loading/unloading it may be that the parking warden/officer may not actually see the physical loading of the vehicle.

DoctorFoster

Iceweasel wrote: »

Correct - loading restrictions need both kerb-markers and notices, to be enforceable.

A single marker mean there are restrictions at certain times - a double kerb-marker means no loading at any time.

Because the allied paperwork is part of loading/unloading it may be that the parking warden/officer may not actually see the physical loading of the vehicle.

I fell foul of that once, young kid delivering when approached by a traffic warden.

Told him I was unloading and he very politely explained the yellow lines on the kerb. He let me continue and said you'll know what to do next time.

No ticket just just advice, that's when the police employed them to keep obstructions down and not to generate money.