Most of you just don't get it or are being difficult for the sake of it, surely?
Because they're the only outcomes, right?
Most of you just don't get it or are being difficult for the sake of it, surely?
No I'm not kidding you. It isn't a commercial car park, but equally it isn't your street. You are not the parking police, the recovery van is not doing anything illegal.Are you ******* kidding me? Because it stops two cars being able to park there? This isn't a commercial car park.
Crikey. You must be a pleasant person to be around. Suck it up. Odds are it's a temporary thing, it'll probably be gone in a couple of weeks and the extra three or four minutes a week it takes you to find another parking is hardly worth the frustration, is it?
And I find the fact that you need to mention that they're foreigners interesting. You can say "I'm not racist" till you're blue in the face but the fact that it seems to affect your judgement enough to not only mention it, but also let it make a fairly silly situation so much more unpleasant for you, is the very definition of xenophobia.
I'll bet that the Pole and the Saffer would happily welcome you into their homes for a cup of tea and a chat if anything they do bothers you.
Perhaps you should grow some balls and speak to them rather than come anonymously onto an internet forum and whinge about it, only to throw your toys at the very people giving you advice because they're not telling you what you want to hear.
Do you have a little boy next door named Dennis by any chance?
You make a lot of assumptions. All anyone here had to do was give me a simple and polite response like maccapacca did. That is all I asked for in my OP, to do something or ignore. It's astounding how many people infest this forum ready to just pounce on someone and spit their saved up venom, most likely because of their own pent up anger at life.
Are you ******* kidding me? Because it stops two cars being able to park there? This isn't a commercial car park.
Wait, you classify that recovery truck as a car? Lol.
There are also two other residents here that also park their ocado sized van and sprinter double glazing van. So between the three of them, that has to be approximately 6 or 7 residents that can't park their .. wait for it.... 'cars', outside their house. You think that's reasonable and nothing to get annoyed about?
Most of you just don't get it or are being difficult for the sake of it, surely?
Have you tried speaking to the neighbour who has the transporter and explained that it's inconveniencing people? It's perfectly possible that he hasn't realised how irritating it is.
One thing that might be worth remembering is that at least he's apparently leaving the car on the transporter - he could just as easily also park it on the street so you'd have a transporter plus car there.
I'm sure it's annoying but his nationality is (or should be) irrelevant - being inconsiderate is far from nationality specific. He isn't parking illegally and you've had that confirmed so your options would appear to be decidedly limited - that's why speaking to him might be the best course of action.
If it wasn't a Recovery Vehicle you could get it moved as it would be prohibited from being parked over night on a public street under the Operators Licence that all Commercial Vehicles should fall under in the UK , sadly Recovery vehicles do not fall under any such Operators Licence restrictions so there's nothing you can do unless it can be shown to be causing an 'Obstruction'.
Of course if it's a foreign registered Vehicle, it might not be registered with DVLA as a Recovery Vehicle which if you want it shifted may be your best course of action, be aware if they do recognise it as a legitimate Recovery Vehicle there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.
Thanks doofer. Finally, a useful post!
Would the ocado sized 'green man van' that's always parked here, and the white sprinter van with the double glazing company logo printed on it's sides, be likely to fall under the Operators Licence?
The DVLA registration as a recovery vehicle is an interesting point too! I'll call DVLA tomorrow.
What the guy is doing just isn't cricket.
Thanks doofer. Finally, a useful post!
Would the ocado sized 'green man van' that's always parked here, and the white sprinter van with the double glazing company logo printed on it's sides, be likely to fall under the Operators Licence?
The DVLA registration as a recovery vehicle is an interesting point too! I'll call DVLA tomorrow.
Give over, them parking a company van outside their home is no different than Steve parking his 3 series compant car outside his house, yes its an inconvenience but if van is taxed and insured he's got as much right as you to be there.
The nerve!
Merlin, has any other driver who lives on the street come up and stated that they spent ages and ages looking for a parking spot and simply could not, so had to park miles away all because the carrier truck is taking up 2 car lengths of space for the effort of selling the car it is carrying?
I'm guessing not![]()
It should have the Operators Licence details viewable somewhere on the Vehicle I think and you can view the relevant Operator Licence details online as it's a public document, I only know this as we had a similar problem with a guy running a Recovery Truck who lived up a long dead-end street about 600yds from it parking his truck very awkwardly for both pedestrians and other road users on the pavement directly opposite a junction and only 30yds away from the staggered Crossroads on to a very busy main road one way and 20yds from a Bus Stop the other way... not only was it a royal PITA the way it was left parked but it was a big noise issue when he'd sit there in it charging his air whenever he got called out at god knows what time of the day or night.
He was asked politely to find somewhere else to park as it was causing a nuisance and he said he could park where he wanted, so the neighbours affected all got together and effectively blocked him in so he couldn't get out easily or parked where he would park if he was gone so he didn't have enough space for the truck, took a few weeks but in the end we never saw it parked there again.