papermonkey:
One of my collegues, in the course of his work arrived at the customers site as above. Finding two trucks on there in his way, he parked outside, waiting 3-5 minutes maximum, while he gained entry. During that time, a security van passed and on Friday the £180 parking fine found it’s way to our depot by post. The manager told my mate he had to pay. As you may imagine, none of us drivers is terribly happy with that situation, so I thought I’d seek opinions and advice on here, and also warn other guys about the place.
chris_g:
who is the actual company that sent the invoice ?
Was it Proserve?
As well as banning clamping, the law change last October allowed the Parking co’s to persue the registered keeper for the charge… before they could only persue the driver.
The name of the Parking co would be handy as if they are members of the BPA it makes a small difference on how to deal with the invoice.
Invoicing the RK removes one challenge for them, that of identifying the driver, but they still need a contract in order to issue the invoice.
If you’ve not entered one - ie. you were not aware that you were doing so - then you’re not liable to pay.
The letters will get nastier, the amounts larger, then smaller in the hope you’ll pay to settle for less, then they’ll stop all together.
For the volume of these that must be issued on a regular basis, I’ve not yet heard of any being contested and lost. You only hear of people paying straight away, or filing under B for Bin and nothing ever coming from it.
If any have ever gone to court I’d be very curious to find out the outcome.
My strictly non-legal advice would be don’t even respond to it.
I’d recommend going on the pepipoo forums. They helped me with getting a private parking ticket cancelled. If the parking company who issued the ticket are members of the BPA then the maximum they can ‘charge’ is £100.
chris_g:
who is the actual company that sent the invoice ?
Was it Proserve?
As well as banning clamping, the law change last October allowed the Parking co’s to persue the registered keeper for the charge… before they could only persue the driver.
The name of the Parking co would be handy as if they are members of the BPA it makes a small difference on how to deal with the invoice.
if it was proserve you want to ask the dvla who asked for your details as they are not bpa members
Ian G:
Invoicing the RK removes one challenge for them, that of identifying the driver, but they still need a contract in order to issue the invoice.
Agreed but the ability to continue to “harrass” the RK may eventually lead him/her into paying & claiming it back from the employee. This then gets into the murky world of employment contracts & what is stipulated.
If the PPC is a member of the BPA then the RK can name the driver & the PPC can only contact said driver from then on.