HGV parking on residential roads

Barnaby

Hello.


Can any one advise on what the legal position is regarding HVG's over 3.5T parking on the road. not on kerb, which further narrows the road. The vehicle is a lo-loader sometime with a big box van on the back. My neighbor opposite also parks half and half so the road width is very narrow.
The truck also obscures the view up the road and the other way is a bend which cars often come exceeding the 30mph limit. All in all it makes it very tricky getting out in the morning.
This parking used to be infrequent but over the last 2 weeks it has been daily. 7 days a week. Further down the road is a school and this lorry if often there until 8:45 in the morning.
Another thing is he lives on the other side of the road, 2 semis up but I suspect doesn't park there as it would block his parents drive way.


Am I right in thinking HGV's are normally insured and licenced to be parked up back at their unit or in a designated lorry park.


This is from VOSA online site.
As part of the Licence requirement the owner must state where their Operating Centre is. An Operating Centre is an off-street location where the vehicle will be garaged / parked at night. This is declared at the time of issuing an Operator's Licence. This does not include such things as overnight stops for long distance journeys where official areas are usually used.


Any advice anyone?


Thanks

Franz_Ferdinand

What size truck are we talking about?

bobbymotors

An HGV should mostly be parked at the place specified in the operator's licence, or at least it should have been when I had lorries.

However I don't think a car transporter has to have an operators licence

EDIT Just checked, recovery vehicles don't need a OL. Looks like you're stuffed unless you can convince the police that its dangerous

Barnaby

Cheers gents.
The size of the truck is big enough to carry a Renaukt Traffic [med to high roof] line with space at the rear tail for other kit
Also beside what I described in my opening post there is a "T" junction on the other side of the road opposite the next door neighbor which is just before the road bend, so all in all its quite busy of a morning.


It would seem my only option is park there myself to deny its use but that is getting a bit childish
I'll have to try and catch him and see what he says.


Thanks

Johno100

I assume you've checked there are no parking restriction signs like these on lamp posts in the road that may apply?

Franz_Ferdinand

Johno100 wrote: »

I assume you've checked there are no parking restriction signs like these on lamp posts in the road that may apply?

I very much doubt it's over 5 tonnes.

Robisere

Does your County Police have a website? Access and post a complaint, with picture of the problem from 3 angles/directions. Or take the phone/camera pics to your loacl station.

Franz_Ferdinand

Robisere wrote: »

Does your County Police have a website? Access and post a complaint, with picture of the problem from 3 angles/directions. Or take the phone/camera pics to your loacl station.

They all do.

forgotmyname

You need to know the actual weight of teh vehicle, does it actually require an operators licence?

Size can be misleading. One company i worked for has an ex PO short wheelbased Sherpa van, it looked really small but could take 12ft length boarding with the doors shut.

Recovery firm had a super expensive transit beavertail, all lightweight aluminium. Although it looked like you could fit a LWB transit on the back you couldn't due to the gross weight being under 3500kg.

Franz_Ferdinand

forgotmyname wrote: »

You need to know the actual weight of teh vehicle, does it actually require an operators licence?

Size can be misleading. One company i worked for has an ex PO short wheelbased Sherpa van, it looked really small but could take 12ft length boarding with the doors shut.

Recovery firm had a super expensive transit beavertail, all lightweight aluminium. Although it looked like you could fit a LWB transit on the back you couldn't due to the gross weight being under 3500kg.

Probably not if it's a recovery truck regardless of the gross weight.

JP1978

Barnaby wrote: »

The vehicle is a lo-loader sometime with a big box van on the back

I dont think that is clearly saying that its a recovery truck. If its the same box van on the back then either a/ the box van is very unreliable or b/its not actually USED as a recovery truck but more to save fuel as the box van travels gets a piggy back. You see construction companies doing this, loading spare vehicles onto a low loader to save fuel.

I 'think' that its the use of the vehicle that determines if it needs an OL and not the design