UKPC Parking Charge - Hire Car

hod35s41

Hi, I've been reading through the forums about how to avoid obscene charges from UKPC but wondering if somebody can help. I was in a hire car hired by my company and as such either the hire car company or my company will give me contract details out for the parking charge.


The charge was for 'leaving site' which I did do but only to cross the road to talk to somebody I had spotted and hadn't seen in number of years. I then returned and shopped in an Aldi but on returning I had a parking charge for £100 or £60 if paid within 14 days.


Can anybody advise what I should do, should I contact UKPC and give them my details by appealing?


Thanks


Stephen

pappa_golf

as you were seen exiting the site , this cannot be an ANPR type ticket , so it must have been a ticket on the car , who have UKPC written to so far?

Coupon-mad

should I contact UKPC and give them my details by appealing?

An easy one to win, you are LUCKY it's a hire car and lucky the hire firm gave your details as hirer! Remember they did NOT say who was driving and NOR MUST YOU, even when UKPC write and ask.

The appeal for a hirer to send is clearly linked already (to a post by Edna Basher) in the end part of post #1 of the NEWBIES PLEASE READ THESE FAQS FIRST' thread...you know, the bit about how to appeal when it's a hire vehicle... The appeal is specifically for hire vehicles.

Autolycus2000

Coupon-mad wrote: »

An easy one to win, you are LUCKY it's a hire car and lucky the hire firm gave your details as hirer! Remember they did NOT say who was driving and NOR MUST YOU, even when UKPC write and ask.

If I've understood the OP correctly, the hire company have not yet given out his details. And that means that, when they do, they may refer to him as the driver rather than the hirer.

Just mentioning it in case that changes your advice to the OP.

Carthesis

Also, if it's a windscreen ticket, that means that a parking-!!!!!! must have *SEEN* you leaving the site, and if they haven't called out to you and said something, then they have failed to mitigate their "losses" in an appropriate way, hence you've got a decent point of defence (in court at least, should it ever come to that).

Coupon-mad

Autolycus2000 wrote: »

If I've understood the OP correctly, the hire company have not yet given out his details. And that means that, when they do, they may refer to him as the driver rather than the hirer.

Just mentioning it in case that changes your advice to the OP.

It doesn't because they can't know who was driving.