PCS car parking charge - company car

catfunt

openthepoppy,

One of your main complaints at work should be that by just paying it on your behalf, you have been denied your lawful right to appeal/challenge the invoice (because that is what it is, not a fine/penalty, as others have said.)

Have a search on this forum for "hire company paid parking charge" - this will point you to what hire companies should be doing in the event of a parking charge, this should be further ammunition at work.

All the best with this - it stinks to high heaven.

bod1467

opethpoppy wrote: »

Hello

Have dug out my contract. My contract only mentions fixed parking fines and traffic offences, this surprises me. It does say the lease company will pay and the charge will be passed to me.

The letter sent to lease company who sent it to my work does not start dear x. It just has the lease company name and address followed by Fixed Penalty Notice £120. In the first paragraph it says they are writing to them as the registered keeper of the vehicle. It asks them to pay or if they were not the driver then provide driver details.

Thanks everyone.

Does it really say that? If yes then it sounds like fraud, as there's no way this was a penalty.

Castle

pappa_golf wrote: »

your manager should have received letters from the PPC , when the lease Co passed your companies info on , upon receipt he should have wrote back naming you as the driver

I'm guessing the lease company would have simply paid the £120 NTK and added its £30 admin charge: then recharged the company £150.

pappa_golf

easy mark up , no work req


however how can a COMPANY admit to driving

opethpoppy

Bod - sorry no that's what work have called it, sorry for giving the wrong info.

Castle - I think it could be work who charge the extra, the contract of employment doesn't say if the £30 goes to them or the lease company?

Papa - is it not worth pursuing with work, pals and the Ata from the beginning? Work may take a while to respond.

Cat - I read some of the lease car threads, it seems a lot take mark ups too. I am still not 100% sure if work or the lease company coughed up. I never receive anything from the lease company so am unsure of their t and c's. The whole thing seems wrong, I wonder why work do it this way. The letter that work have now sent to me speaks of fines and penalty notices - which it clearly isn't.

pappa_golf

your beef is with your employer , if the lease co screwed them , that nothing to do with you , your EMPLOYER took the money , its not a parking ticket issue now , its an employment contract problem now. suggest finding forum more suited to employment laws and terms of contracts , OR see your union rep


forget about parking tickets at this point , its a different matter now

opethpoppy

Thanks everyone' I am going to raise this with work. I have managed to do a lot of reading this morning and have realised that the letter asking for £120 was sent to me 66 days after they allegedly put a ticket on the windscreen. My understanding was it should be done no more than 56 days later. Also they fail to mention the time period the car was in the car park. Therefore if work had advised me I could have fought it.

opethpoppy

Sorry, not sent to me sent to the lease company 66 days later.

pappa_golf

however it went thru two sets of hands before being received by you .


focus on the illegal deduction , not the ticket


I could print a letter demanding £120 for parking on my street , the lease Co are not acting legal and would probably pay it , and deduct (via employer) from you


its the illegality of deducting money that needs stopping

Ralph-y

as above ....... its not your problem ...

however you will have to do some work to sort it .......

if you know the lease company , see if there are terms and conditions on the web site ...... depending what they say .... you can use them to confront your employer ...

there has been a victory against a car hire company for a driver after the company paid the money out ......

I will see if I can find it later for information.....

good luck

Ralph:cool: