In the Bbc One drama “The boy who wore a dress”, the lorry driver has his truck parked on his drive on a residential street.
For an Operating licence, you are not allowed to park a unit there.
Neighbours would object in the planning applications under noise concerns.
Why have the Bbc got their background checks wrong ?
Not being allowed to do something and actually doing something are not the same thing. I parked my unit at my house for years, was about 15 miles away from my operating centre, and ‘got away with it’. Apart from getting a ticket for parking without lights on once or twice. 
Could have been an out based driver on a foreign regd truck, all legal then, I done it for years at weekends on a couple of firms, never any bother with anybody or even VOSA man who lived a short distance away.
In the tv programme, the driver carries out no 15 minute walk around safely check of his Mercedes, and just jumps in and drives off.
In France, you see trucks and trailers parked up at the drivers homes, nobody objects over there.
My O licence base was up a narrow small lane, the owner of the pub in the village comes running out to inform me that I should not be driving that up the lane to my base, unit only.
I gave him my impression of a jazz singers hands.
I paid my road fund licence.
Namby pamby Britain. Many cars with loud exhausts make more noise than a truck ticking over for a minute and then driving off down the road. The other day my wife and I were house hunting in our local town and one of the houses we viewed was on a nice well to do residential street, well kept houses, trimmed hedged, nice tree’s, you name it, yet on that one street alone were six tractor units parked in drive ways. I used to see it a lot in Europe as well, especially in Belgium for some reason.
Well, real life and telly aren’t the same thing, but no you wouldn’t be able to get an O licence to park a truck on a drive in a residential street, DVSA wouldn’t grant an O licence to anywhere if it can’t be entered and departed from in forward gear.
Got to love the UK. One guy in our village works for Jacky Perrenot and parks the entire artic on the road in front of his house 
I’ve just watched a drama on the “so called” bbc where the main character could fly.
This is against the laws of physics.
Do your research bbc!
Harry Monk:
Well, real life and telly aren’t the same thing, but no you wouldn’t be able to get an O licence to park a truck on a drive in a residential street, DVSA wouldn’t grant an O licence to anywhere if it can’t be entered and departed from in forward gear.
They do but T & C s are set in place like reverse in and drive out forward only,and with the assistance of a banks man when reversing .
Think the key word is drama 
toby1234abc:
In the tv programme, the driver carries out no 15 minute walk around safely check of his Mercedes, and just jumps in and drives off.
In France, you see trucks and trailers parked up at the drivers homes, nobody objects over there.
My O licence base was up a narrow small lane, the owner of the pub in the village comes running out to inform me that I should not be driving that up the lane to my base, unit only.
I gave him my impression of a jazz singers hands.
I paid my road fund licence.
Perhaps the reason why he didn’t do a 15 minute walk around was because there is no legal requirement to do one, so the bbc got something right.
toby1234abc:
In the tv programme, the driver carries out no 15 minute walk around safely check of his Mercedes, and just jumps in and drives off.
Watching someone walk round a truck for 15 minutes is probably not going to be a ratings winner. 
Coffeeholic:
Watching someone walk round a truck for 15 minutes is probably not going to be a ratings winner.
True, but the sight of someone spending 15 minutes walking around a tractor unit would be true fiction if nothing else.
robinhood_1984:
Coffeeholic:
Watching someone walk round a truck for 15 minutes is probably not going to be a ratings winner.True, but the sight of someone spending 15 minutes walking around a tractor unit would be true fiction if nothing else.
15 minutes walking around a whole tractor & trailer set up would be equally fictional!
rob22888:
15 minutes walking around a whole tractor & trailer set up would be equally fictional!
You mean you don’t get under the trailer and make sure all brakes are in adjustment and check every single wheel nut with a torque wrench?!?!
The last firm that I drove for had their operating centre on a former farm, the barns had been converted into private dwellings which were next to our garage. I did a lot of night work and used to feel a little guilty arriving back at the yard around 3.am with a six wheeler Foden tipper backing down the drive with the reversing horn sounding but nobody complained! Sometimes I would take the truck home if I had to do a part day shift as well after a night run so that I could get a couple of hours in bed before loading again, nobody complained then either as far as I know!!
Pete.
I watched Hell Drivers earlier and 2 of the Dodge Kews had the same number plate!
So you can’t park your own tractor unit on your drive? There used to be a guy that lived near me that used to bring his unit home for the weekend.
Radar19:
So you can’t park your own tractor unit on your drive? There used to be a guy that lived near me that used to bring his unit home for the weekend.
You can park it on your drive but you could get grief for it, you are supposed to park at your operating centre.
bazstan009:
Think the key word is drama
you missed a word, queen 
