QDR solicitors...wait for a court date?

Biffa70

Hi all.

A private company issued a fixed penalty on a car i have been known to drive.
It was done via camera and not placed on the vehicle physically

The vehicle was seen to pull up to a hotel barrier in an airport which has a lot of double red lines. The passenger jumped out, so instead of going through the barrier, the vehicle reversed out and drove away.

A ticket was issued for 'parking' in a restricted area.
The red lines end at the junction of the entrance to the hotel, so the car was not on any red lines or adjacent to them.

Letters arrived and were subsequently replaced with letters from ZPSS.

Texts from QDS solicitors have started to arrive asking to call them.

Now if this was me, personally, I'd be prepared to go to court, as the red lines don't extend into the hotel grounds.

I'm interested to find out if these companies have to take the person in question to court, before bailiffs etc are involved?

I've since changed vehicles and moved house without leaving a forwarding address, although i do have a mail redirect in place.

Thanks in advance for any words of advice

Umkomaas

I'm interested to find out if these companies have to take the person in question to court, before bailiffs etc are involved?

Impossible. You have to lose in court and fail/refuse to pay the costs before any bailiff can appear on the horizon.

Which parking company? The name will help us guide you as to any likelihood of this becoming a court claim.

Redx

Biffa70 wrote: »

1) A private company issued a fixed penalty on a car i have been known to drive.It was done via camera and not placed on the vehicle physically

The vehicle was seen to pull up to a hotel barrier in an airport which has a lot of double red lines. The passenger jumped out, so instead of going through the barrier, the vehicle reversed out and drove away.

A ticket was issued for 'parking' in a restricted area.
The red lines end at the junction of the entrance to the hotel, so the car was not on any red lines or adjacent to them.

2) Letters arrived and were subsequently replaced with letters from ZPSS.

3) Texts from QDS solicitors have started to arrive asking to call them.

4) I'm interested to find out if these companies have to take the person in question to court, before bailiffs etc are involved?

1) I doubt it was a penalty , more likely to have been a PARKING Charge Notice , or PCN

2) I doubt it , more likely to have been ZZPS debt collectors

3) never respond to unsolicited texts , never phone a DCA or a solicitors (NEVER)

4) Not without a live and unpaid CCJ in place following the claimant winning in court and paying for a Warrant of Control (so after the 28 day window that the losing defendant has to actually pay the judgment IN FULL)

System

Sounds like UKPPO at Newcastle Airport - so it would be a penalty.

Biffa70

Yes...sorry... Your corrections and assumptions are correct.

I'm at work and did the post from memory after receiving a text from QDR.

It was newcastle airport and it is a taxi. The office confirmed me as the renter and sole driver.
I have not responded to any letters or texts.

fisherjim

Don't reply or phone QDR they are not all they seem, a subsidiary of Wright Hassall, previously known as Quantum Debt Recovery, I suspect they are acting as debt collectors with this.

A solicitor acting on behalf of a client is unlikely to send a text message out of the blue.

beamerguy

fisherjim is correct, this is NOT what it seems

Maybe Wright Hassall are trying to wriggle out of the
great parking scam which has given them a bad name

Block that text on your phone and do not respond
to them

pappa_golf

approx what was the date of the incident?

System

The issue will timeout after 6 months - all "penalties" do. So sit on your hands as UKPPO can't actually do court with "penalties"

Biffa70

I think it was a couple of months ago. Ive binned everything that arrived so far.

I got another one around the same time, for being in a motorway services for 2 hours and 9 minutes.

They gave up after 3 letters

QDR landline blocked. Text came from a landline number not a mobile.

Thanks all...i shall keep doing what ive been doing

fisherjim

Biffa70 wrote: »

I got another one around the same time, for being in a motorway services for 2 hours and 9 minutes.

They gave up after 3 letters

I bet they haven't, who was it?