Ticket not actually issued but up at the office in Camden, London, we need to have the back of the building painted which involves scaffolding.
Scaffolders lorry turned up yesterday and by the time half a dozen poles were off along came a traffic warden with \"Shift it mate, or it\'ll cost you £50\".
Away went lorry.
Scaffolders are now negotiating for a dispensation to unload.
Are they expected to bring it on a bus or the underground or something?
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I don't see how sending a copy of my tax disk will help... They already think it's my car and of course my unique tax disc will just confirm that yes it's the same car.
It's very annoying, if I had got a ticket I'd have paid the damn thing or disputed it, I certainly wouldn't have waited until it was doubled before taking action, what kind of an idiot does that?
Well, I'll send off the details and wait until the next response I get from them...
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If, as DVD suggests, the registration was copied off the offending vehicle's tax disc, it won't be the first one to be wrongly copied. Some PO officials' handwriting is pretty illegible, especially if it has faded after several months in the sun.
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Actually, the TW's round here use a barcode scanner and scan the tax discs barcode, thats why I can't see the point in sending my tax disc, the scanner must have misread the original barcode, and re-reading mine won't change their minds.
Oh well they may suprse me or this may just run and run....
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"the scanner must have misread the original barcode"
If that's the case, then sending them the disc should do the trick. Reading barcodes through a windscreen is not an entirely reliable process, and this may be a tacit acknowledgement of that.
Incidentally, we recently got a parking ticket that mis-states the waiting period. We had still outstayed our welcome, but presumably the ticket has to be correct to be enforceable?
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A parking ticket does have to be correct to be enforceable. I was fortunate to once escape a parking fine because the traffic warden had put the wrong date on the ticket.
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Your plate may have been cloned, much less likely that your tax disc has been.
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"Some PO officials' handwriting is pretty illegible, especially if it has faded after several months in the sun."
Sorry, I was forgetting about those newfangled gold-plated tax discs which are untouched by human hand.
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J.A.B.
This site has loads of useful info about appeals and adjudications...
www.parking-appeals.gov.uk/about/theNPAS.asp
John R
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J.A.B. This site has loads of useful info about appeals and adjudications... www.parking-appeals.gov.uk/about/theNPAS.asp John R
Cheers
I'll have a look later.
JaB
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Often you cannot query parking tickets until after 2 weeks, by which time they've doubled in cost anyway. So not getting the original ticket may not have ended up costing you any more.
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Often you cannot query parking tickets until after 2 weeks, by which time they've doubled in cost anyway. So not getting the original ticket may not have ended up costing you any more.
Thats all very well but I categorically did not park my car anywhere other than outside my office, so it shouldn't be costing me anything at all :-)
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No I know :-], but you were bemoaning its doubling 'It's very annoying, if I had got a ticket I'd have paid the damn thing or disputed it, I certainly wouldn't have waited until it was doubled before taking action, what kind of an idiot does that?' so I was just trying to be 'helpful' and make you feel better.
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Now now, boys and girls......
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No I know :-], but you were bemoaning its doubling 'It's very annoying, if I had got a ticket I'd have paid the damn thing or disputed it, I certainly wouldn't have waited until it was doubled before taking action, what kind of an idiot does that?' so I was just trying to be 'helpful' and make you feel better.
;-) and I appreciate the effort
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... in so far as one can ever feel better having been given a parking ticket, particularly if it's 'unfair'.
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Scaffolders have returned.
They have had to park 100 yards away and carry every scaffold pole and board from their truck to our premises.
There is a 35 foot wide space outside which is used by dustcarts, Royal Mail vans et al.
How daft can you get!
Tin-pot regulations enforced by morons.
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Scaffolders have returned. They have had to park 100 yards away and carry every scaffold pole and board from their truck to our premises. There is a 35 foot wide space outside which is used by dustcarts, Royal Mail vans et al. How daft can you get! Tin-pot regulations enforced by morons.
And of course, the next thing will be that the Health & Safety lot will have something to say about them carrying heavy stuff 100 yards!!! You couldn't make it up....
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and then the H&S come and check the safety of the scaffold. And then if its on the pavement, it gets taken donw because it doesent have a license
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and then the H&S come and check the safety of the scaffold.
That always used to amuse me on sites... no-ones allowed on the scaffold until the H&S officer has checked and passed it for safety.... except of course the H&S rules don't appear to apply to scaffold monkeys :-) have you ever watched 'em scampering about errecting a scaffold????
on Topic...
I have writen my letter and sent off a copy of my Tax Disk... just waiting for a reply now :-/
JaB
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Sorry to drag this to the top again..
Just wanted to say that after all my efforts at letter writing and such the Local Authority concerned has decided to let the matter drop...
So good news all round.
Cheers
JaB
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So they aren't offering to repay your costs, time and inconvenience then?
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ND & JAB,
>>So they aren't offering to repay your costs, time and inconvenience then?
All I got when my "case" was dropped was a letter saying that there had been a mistake noting the number asnd NFA would be taken...
I ended up abut £2.50 out of pocket for postage etc. not to mention the agrevation and worry it caused.
John R
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So they aren't offering to repay your costs, time and inconvenience then?
The tone of the letter was along the lines of, "you are obviously going to argue the toss with us and altho' we think you owe us this money we are not taking any more action."
As for any costs I've incurred well 3 1st class stamps should cover it but the aggravation has been considerable :-)
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Ah but
Screwing the local parking authority? = Priceless
For everything else there is Barclaycard
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Ah but Screwing the local parking authority? = Priceless For everything else there is Barclaycard
LOL
There is a certain feeling of satisfaction it must be said ;-)
JaB
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If i was the scaffolder,i would have found a good place to put a 20 foot lenghth of pipe.Bend over mr. parking warden!
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