Parking Code of Practice Consultation 2025 - now let's see what happens

Coupon-mad

And they were a start-up in 2017. Shocking.

Le_Kirk

Kaizen2024 said:

Someone has messed up on an excel sheet formula there, DRA’s do not have a 63% profit margin 

What do they have then?  With proof please.

Kaizen2024

I have no idea, but I’m told it’s not that much. 

The above DCB records will be inflated by their [non-parking related] bailiff (and TV) work which is highly profitable.

Car1980

That would be DCBL, not DCB Legal.

Coupon-mad

Kaizen2024 said:

I have no idea, but I’m told it’s not that much. 

The above DCB records will be inflated by their [non-parking related] bailiff (and TV) work which is highly profitable.

No. Different company.

We're talking about DCB Legal dominating the market.

It's no surprise that the DRAs and the market-dominating legals (not Elms Legal, they are small fry, I'm sure you'll agree) are trousering a fortune right now.

Much of this unjust enrichment of aggressive limpet third parties is due to the abuse of deliberately late multi-ticketing by post, under the joke excuse of 'MNPR'...

= a slack-jawed yokel with a phone, deliberately not enabled to issue windscreen PCNs.

Why issue one single timely windscreen notice to a driver being caught out by an unsolicited/pointless and covert 'permit scheme' when moving into their new flat, when you can instead abuse DVLA data and issue twenty NTKs by post to the victim's old address the following month (not seen in time) and sue for £3400 plus fees?

Of which the likes of DCB Legal appear to keep the lion's share... I suspect PPCs are only getting a small % of batches of unpaid PCNs...

...and then DCB Ltd swiftly trace the new address, obtain a High Court Writ, add an extortionate and unexplained £200 on top (despite the legal maximum fee being £75) and send the boys round?

The bigger DRAs are making a shedload more money than PPCs do. Didn't you realise?

Ralph-y

should we not be asking every visitor to the forum to do the consultation?

Kaizen2024

Local Authorities increase their rates by 50% at charge certificate stage for a very good reason and is supported by Government; and their costs are a lot less than the private sector.. Just saying.

Coupon-mad

Kaizen2024 said:

Local Authorities increase their rates by 50% at charge certificate stage for a very good reason and is supported by Government; and their costs are a lot less than the private sector.. Just saying.

Local Authorities don't use small claims and their costs increase is the cost of fast-tracking their cases to bailiff enforcement.

Thus their 50% charge certificate increase is the equivalent of small claim costs AND they can't add the capped legal fees that your lot can.

Just saying.

daveyjp

Local Authorities work under a legal framework designed for public benefit with proper scrutiny and appeals process.

Just saying.

Kaizen2024

Coupon-mad said:

Kaizen2024 said:

Local Authorities increase their rates by 50% at charge certificate stage for a very good reason and is supported by Government; and their costs are a lot less than the private sector.. Just saying.

Local Authorities don't use small claims and their costs increase is the cost of fast-tracking their cases to bailiff enforcement.

Thus their 50% charge certificate increase is the equivalent of small claim costs AND they can't add the capped legal fees that your lot can.

Just saying.

It is my understanding that the Local Authority issues a Charge Certificate; they have not incurred any costs with bailiffs, etc, at this stage. That comes later, when even more costs are added to the debt.

'Capped Legal Fees' are not added by operators until the claim stage; therefore, they are not relevant to the matter in hand.

As such, the Local Authority Charge Certificate Stage is directly comparable with the first chasing letters from an Operator or their appointed DCA should they choose to use one.