bigvern1:
Harry Monk:
My insurance company have told me that it has not been registered as a claim and will not affect future premiums.
I am considering billing them for my time, which I estimate at around 10 hours.
Since I have abundant evidence to support what I say, and will supply copies of original correspondence on request, and since the company in question is prepared to knowingly attempt to defraud goods vehicle operators, I will name them here as [No you wont. Until they have been convicted of fraud you wont publish such allegations on this website]
Shame you weren’t around earlier…We ALL saw it already! 
I didn’t consider it libellous or defamatory. I simply made a series of true and verifiable statements.
1). Company X is attempting to claim against my insurance.
2). I consider that Company X’s claim is fraudulent.
3). I reported Company X to the Police.
4). Company X have withdrawn the claim.
However, I do entirely respect Rikki’s decision. As I always say, “The moderator may not always be right, but he is always the moderator”. I’m sure that being a TruckNet moderator must be a fairly thankless task. 
A few weeks ago I was delivering to the hospital in Macclesfield. On a bend in the access road, a small tipper wagon was parked, somewhat awkwardly, on the outside of the bend, opposite a stack of pallets on the inside verge. I could see it would be tight, so lined up carefully and inched through at less than walking pace. My offside mirror did in fact rub against the side of the tipper body, but that was the total extent of any contact - not even enough to mark the plastic or move the mirror.
I thought nothing about it until my TM phoned me the next day. He had been contacted by Cheshire police about a non-stop traffic accident. According to the owners of the tipper, I had hit their vehicle with enough force to push it two feet along the road, damaging the bolt mechanism on the tailboard! I don’t know what sort of plastic Daf use for their mirror bodies, but it must be some pretty strong stuff 
Roymondo:
A few weeks ago I was delivering to the hospital in Macclesfield. On a bend in the access road, a small tipper wagon was parked, somewhat awkwardly, on the outside of the bend, opposite a stack of pallets on the inside verge. I could see it would be tight, so lined up carefully and inched through at less than walking pace. My offside mirror did in fact rub against the side of the tipper body, but that was the total extent of any contact - not even enough to mark the plastic or move the mirror.
I thought nothing about it until my TM phoned me the next day. He had been contacted by Cheshire police about a non-stop traffic accident. According to the owners of the tipper, I had hit their vehicle with enough force to push it two feet along the road, damaging the bolt mechanism on the tailboard! I don’t know what sort of plastic Daf use for their mirror bodies, but it must be some pretty strong stuff
Begs the question,how come they didn’t attempt to draw your attention to such a huge accident at the time it happened,because obviously they were watching your every move from somewhere!
Expect a whiplash claim to follow suit!
Congratulations on your result there, Harry! Nice to see a rare case of the under dog coming out on top and the scum of this planet not getting their dirty thieving way. Its a shame you cant still bring a case against them for attempted fraud. If these low lives thought they could be prosecuted for being caught out, instead of just dropping the case and moving on to their next target, we’d start to see a serious reduction in this kind of behavior. After all, if I try and mug somebody or hold a bank up, if it doesn’t go according to plan and I had to leave the scene empty handed, I’d still be prosecuted. Whats the difference here?
robinhood_1984:
Its a shame you cant still bring a case against them for attempted fraud. If these low lives thought they could be prosecuted for being caught out, instead of just dropping the case and moving on to their next target, we’d start to see a serious reduction in this kind of behavior.
In a way, yes, but at the end of the day I’m an owner driver, I have a truck to drive and a business to run, I didn’t want to have to go to the Police station to give statements or take several days out to go to Court, the ideal scenario for me was always that the Police just popped round and had a word with them and that that was enough to make them go away and let me get on with life, and that’s what has happened.
For me, this is the resolution I was hoping for.
Harry Monk:
In a way, yes, but at the end of the day I’m an owner driver, I have a truck to drive and a business to run, I didn’t want to have to go to the Police station to give statements or take several days out to go to Court, the ideal scenario for me was always that the Police just popped round and had a word with them and that that was enough to make them go away and let me get on with life, and that’s what has happened.
For me, this is the resolution I was hoping for.
Fair point, Harry. Glad it all worked out for you.
I’m not even going to send them an invoice for my wasted time. As long as they remember the name “Southern Star” then that’s enough for me.
Must feel nice Harry to be the pigeon once in
a while instead of the statue all of the time .
Well done .
quirky
