Car transporter as on street parking

AdrianC

treboeth wrote: »

Parking is bad in your area so instead of taking up one space you want to use two?

Two for the wagon itself. One for the ramps. One for the car to be loaded from.

All it needs is somebody to park in one of those two empty spaces, and you'd have to move the transporter to load or unload.

Then there's the cost and ballache of MOTing a £400 van, plus insuring and taxing.

Ludicrous idea...

Silver-Surfer_2

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

How exactly would an unsecured vehicle on a transporter 'topple over'?


I've never seen anyone park their vehicle balanced on its nose or tail on a transporter, but I'd be interested to.


Cars aren't naturally unstable, otherwise they'd be 'toppling over' every time they stopped. They're not motorcycles.

Maybe he was referring to it being nicked with the car on it?

BeenThroughItAll

Silver-Surfer wrote: »

Maybe he was referring to it being nicked with the car on it?

Yes. Even with a car parked on the back of a transported, how will it 'topple over'?


Cars don't just 'topple over'. It's that simple.


I accept that if someone nicked the transported and then tried to achieve >1 lateral G cornering forces, the car could conceivable slide off the side, but that is not toppling over - and if the hypothetical thief didn't drive like Lewis Hamilton, a car could easily stay static on the back of the transporter for quite some time. Otherwise, every cross-Channel ferry would have cars 'toppling over' left, right and centre every time the Channel was even slightly choppy.

Herzlos

arcon5 wrote: »

I'd be taking the ramps

But no
Can't see you'd be breaking any rules though if you did it

It depends on the area, there may be rules about commercial vehicles (try proving your car transporter is just a parking space), or about parking over multiple spaces.

Then you've got tax/mot/insurance for it.

Plus you'll upset the neighbours a lot. Is it really worth the hassle?

foxy-stoat

Potski wrote: »

New to forum so hope this post is ok, it is only semi-serious. Hypothetically, is there any reason why I couldn't buy a car transporter and use it to park my car in the street in a residential area? The parking is terrible where I live and I do not have a garage or a driveway. I have seen a single car transporter for sale for just under £400. Obviously, it would have road tax but would constantly be parked outside my house taking up about 2 spaces. It would be parked on the end of the row so I could just lower the ramp and drive on when needed, thus always having a parking space. Is this a genius idea or is there some reason why this is not allowed? Obviously taking into account that my neighbours would be a little disgruntled! Thanks in advance.

I would move to an area where parking is a little better than consider buying a wreck of a recovery lorry and keeping it MOT'd, tax'd and insured for years, or park in the closest space and walk home.

Herzlos

There's also the very real possibility that your driving license won't cover you to drive the transporter (it'll likely have a GVW of over 3500kg), which means you won't be able to move or insure it. If you get one that weighs under 3500kg, then you'll probably find that it's over weight with a big car on it, which is a completely separate offense.

Silver-Surfer_2

Herzlos wrote: »

There's also the very real possibility that your driving license won't cover you to drive the transporter (it'll likely have a GVW of over 3500kg), which means you won't be able to move or insure it. If you get one that weighs under 3500kg, then you'll probably find that it's over weight with a big car on it, which is a completely separate offense.

Which would be what is its used as the op wants to?

Section 71 refers to driving not using.

Herzlos

Well it means he'll never be able to move it at all with the car on, and since it'll !!!! off every neighbour it'll be getting reported to VOSA on a near daily basis.
Plus, if he's loading the car and is stopped, how does he prove he isn't going to be driving it?

So if it's over 3500kg he may not be able to move it empty (or insure it), and if it's under 3500kg he can't move it with the car on, and potentially has to field a lot of queries. I'm not sure on the VOSA requirements on use are.

Plus if it's much overloaded (and at £400 we're talking about a proper banger) then he risks expensive axle damage too.

Then there's the fact it'll be a total pain to have to set up the ramps to move the car every time; it's probably quicker to just park further away.

Even if never moving it is technically legal, it's still a bad idea, no?

It'd make sense as a way of storing a SORN car on the road though, but it's crazy to try and do it with a daily driver.

George_Michael

Herzlos wrote: »

Plus, if he's loading the car and is stopped, how does he prove he isn't going to be driving it?

Using that sort of logic, if you are doing nothing illegal yet are pulled over by the police, how do you prove that you are not going to be speeding at a later time?

Under most legislation, you get prosecuted for what you are doing or what you have done and not for something that you might do.

glentoran99

Why buy a transporter? Just but a single car trailer and clamp it so it cant be nicked, park the car on it