A road sweeper's started parking outside our house

A road sweeper's started parking outside our house

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mp3manager

4,254 posts

196 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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lamboman100 said:
Roadsweepers are cool.
Roadsweepers are cool....some of them have two steering wheels!

Steffan

10,362 posts

228 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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GTIR said:
I doubt that the holder of the opertator licence is allowed to leave that on the street. It has to be parked up at the address the licence is registered to, unless the driver stays with the vehicle.

Naughty.
There are indeed serious restriction on where such vehicles can be parked. I would seek advice from the local licencing authority. This undoubtedly would cause a nuisance parked inappropriately.

Test driver

348 posts

124 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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1st world problems.

Wacky Racer

38,161 posts

247 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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I think you should tell him to park it outside gengas's house......laugh

MikeOxlong

3,112 posts

189 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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Can we add graders and those big road planing machines to the experience day? I've always fancied a go on them.

Monkeylegend

26,389 posts

231 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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Look on the bright side, you have the cleanest kerbside in the street.

soad

32,895 posts

176 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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Report it. yes

Tribal Chestnut

2,997 posts

182 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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MikeOxlong said:
Can we add graders and those big road planing machines to the experience day? I've always fancied a go on them.
+ a big hovercraft and the Bluethunder helicopter.

Rich_W

12,548 posts

212 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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Alucidnation said:
What a bloody eyesore.

That would also piss me off.

You will probably find it belongs to someone round the corner on a different road, and he is parking it there because he doesn't want it parked outside his own house.

Burn it.
We have this probably every couple weeks. We have a chav family down the road that on a Friday often park the LWB Renault (full of fizzy drinks and sweets - though not sign written as such) outside everyone else's house but their own. Which of course doesn't move until Monday morning. Great for having guests.

YES it's got tax so presumably insurance. YES they aren't breaking any laws (as far as I know) But it's a bit rude. Especially since of the 3 cars they have squeezed onto their drive (literally side by side couldn't get into them) none appear to run anyway, so not like they need 24hr access. confused Your van slagface, cause your own problems not others. But that would involve thinking of others so...

Spare tyre

9,573 posts

130 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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I used to live near a guy who was a breakdown truck driver

The numpty would drive into where we lived, park up then reverse out at all hours of the night with his reverse beeper blaring away

My neighbour complained as it kept waking his kids up, stopped soon after that

I think he should of been working froma depot instead of his home

mygoldfishbowl

3,701 posts

143 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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^^ Recovery vehicles don't need an operators licence.

GTIR

24,741 posts

266 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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mygoldfishbowl said:
^^ Recovery vehicles don't need an operators licence.
Partly true.

Only recovery vehicles used solely to transport "disabled vehicles" (as in unable to move due to accident or mechanical failure) to a point of repair or to be dismantled.
If the recovery vehicle is being used to transport vehicles from auctions or after repair then a operators licence is required, because it's then classed as goods.

I'd guess the motorway recovery trucks fall into the no operator licence category.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

186 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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Troubleatmill said:
Buy my beater. Park in front of your house. Job jobbed!
This. Buy a shed, keep your spot.

Northernchimp

1,282 posts

132 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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Put some fruit in the exhaust pipe, without pipe dimensions I cannot be more specific on what sort of fruit.

Oldandslow

2,405 posts

206 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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OP - Do you live in my street? We have one of those parked up for a couple of hours each day around lunchtime. I think the driver is shagging the woman that lives there. Been debating whether to drop a word to the council. Not for the shagging but for the 2 hour breaks he's taking.

Outside your house you say?

s m

23,225 posts

203 months

Friday 30th May 2014
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Northernchimp said:
Put some fruit in the exhaust pipe, without pipe dimensions I cannot be more specific on what sort of fruit.
Banana in the tailpipe?

Mave

8,208 posts

215 months

Saturday 31st May 2014
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Test driver said:
1st world problems.
yes, and most contributors live in the 1st world. do you think pistonheads should be limited to discussing 3rd world issues?

twazzock

1,930 posts

169 months

Saturday 31st May 2014
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lamboman100 said:
Roadsweepers are cool. Would be cool to drive one for a halfday or something. Along with a snowplough, a piste basher (for ski resorts), a digger, a dumpertruck, a dustcart, a tank and a minesweeper. Someone should open an experience centre where you can drive all the big machines together in one go for 500 quid a day or something (yes, I know you can go to tank school etc., but noone in the UK does all the big machines in one place for convenience).
Not quite what you want but it's not quite £500 either: http://www.diggerland.com/

southendpier

5,261 posts

229 months

Saturday 31st May 2014
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Cabbie parks outside my house. He has a large in out driveway and lives 200 yards away. He either doesn't want to park a taxi outside his house or has issues about starting cars up or returning at odd times of the day. I try not to let it bother me.
A roadsweeper is a piss take but makes me feel better about the taxi.

Pferdestarke

7,179 posts

187 months

Saturday 31st May 2014
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It needs damaging if all else fails.

I'm sure it's against what ever law covers such a contraption from being abandoned