Highview ticket for company leased car in Scotland

ThatGuyAgain

Hi all,

So I just had a pdf forwarded to me a colleague at my company's head office, seems that there was a fine for overstaying in a tesco car park last month on my company car. The company hasn't been in touch with Highview but have asked me to go and deal with it. I am the accounts manager of the company and on the board so I can write back to them on behalf of the company.

The letter claims the vehicle overstayed on 08/09/18, is dated 22nd October and was received at the office today.

So from a bit of reading around they shouldn't be able to do anything much without proof of who the driver was, however I don't fancy having a parade of threatening letters turning up at my work. It's not worth the hassle at that point.

Any thoughts on the best way to respond to this one? I've seen conflicting advice regarding company/lease cars in Scotland.

nosferatu1001

Jsut write back, stating the company has no liabjilty in this matter, as there is no "keeper liability" in Scotland.
Sugegs tthey take it up with teh driver, who they will not name

Then EDIT YOUR FIRST POST - you do NOT identify the driver on a public forum! "the driver overstayed".

ThatGuyAgain

Cheers, will draft something shortly.

One other point to note, is that the company, whilst headquartered in Scotland, has a registered address on companies house in England.

Would it be worth writing to them to name myself as the day to day keeper of the vehicle, to eliminate any risk of the company itself being liable? Would doing so take any liability off the company?

beamerguy

I would do just as nosferatu1001 says.

Sends them up a dead end street

Johno100

ThatGuyAgain wrote: »

Cheers, will draft something shortly.

One other point to note, is that the company, whilst headquartered in Scotland, has a registered address on companies house in England.

Would it be worth writing to them to name myself as the day to day keeper of the vehicle, to eliminate any risk of the company itself being liable? Would doing so take any liability off the company?

To clarify, did this parking event occur in Scotland and where are you resident?

twhitehousescat

Johno100 wrote: »

To clarify, did this parking event occur in Scotland and where are you resident?

Pofa cant apply even if event and residence were in england

"The letter claims the vehicle overstayed on 08/09/18, is dated 22nd October and was received at the office today.

dated 22nd , delivered later exceens pofa ability

Johno100

twhitehousescat wrote: »

Pofa cant apply even if event and residence were in england

"The letter claims the vehicle overstayed on 08/09/18, is dated 22nd October and was received at the office today.

dated 22nd , delivered later exceens pofa ability

But the OP refers to a leased vehicle in the title of the thread, we don't know if there was a prior NtK that went to a leasing company, another question for the OP to answer.

twhitehousescat

agreed , however as this was just at 14 days mark , I would think it doubtful, but its definitely worth asking OP

ThatGuyAgain

Hi guys, sorry I missed these replies. The alleged incident did indeed take place in Scotland as well. Going to draft something up in relation to this over the weekend. The letter that arrived was addressed to the company's head office (also in Scotland) however the company is registered in England as far as companies house goes. Worth informing them of the address of the day to day keeper or no?

twhitehousescat

ThatGuyAgain wrote: »

Hi guys, sorry I missed these replies. The alleged incident did indeed take place in Scotland as well. Going to draft something up in relation to this over the weekend. The letter that arrived was addressed to the company's head office (also in Scotland) however the company is registered in England as far as companies house goes. Worth informing them of the address of the day to day keeper or no?

ok , at what address are the vehicles registered at , scottish or english

ThatGuyAgain

twhitehousescat wrote: »

ok , at what address are the vehicles registered at , scottish or english

Leasing company is on the V5C and they're in england I think, the keeper is in Scotland, as is the company's head office.