Smart parking fine fistral beach help please!

The_Slithy_Tove

fisherjim wrote: »

In my experience most hire/lease firms pay any fine or PPC charge like this and recharge it.
It is simple, they are lazy, and they slap on an over-inflated admin charge on top so it's just another hidden fee they get away with.

Quite simply Hertz (and other rental companies) are repeatedly and blatently acting unlawfully by making these deductions outside their own Ts&Cs. As a very large car hire company, they should know what they are doing, so one can only conclude that their actions in such cases are a deliberate and cynical ploy of making money by dodgy means.

Ivor_Pecheque

Hi Simon, not sure if it helps, but the grace period was 20 minutes, "This also applies to people who buy a ticket and exceed their time by 20 minutes from when they enter and leave the car park."

This was the situation in 2011 http://www.newquayvoice.co.uk/news/5/article/3428/

The regime changed in April when Parking Eye were kicked out and SMART reduced the grace period. It's caught lots of folk out, including a lifeguard who was dropping off some eqipment.

Apparently it has now been restored to 20 minutes.

Ivor_Pecheque

have a look as COS18 paragraphs 23 and 24, http://www.parking-prankster.com/case-law.html

not sure how it helps with Hertz and all that though :-(