"Police patrol vehicles only"

[Peter Ward]

On the M42 tonight I noticed 2 Range Rovers belonging to the new Highways Agency organisation parked on police "humps" by the side of the motorway.

As these vehicles are marked with yellow and black squares -- just like police cars from a distance, but I'm sure that'a not intentional, oh no -- everyone was naturally panic braking as they saw the cars, but when you got close you could see they were HA and not police.

So the question: if the humps are for "police patrol vehicles only", why are HA vehicles allowed to park on them? Is this part of the arrangement, and therefore the signs need to be modified, or were they exceeding their remit tonight?

[mojocvh]

You get this on the A/M90 with tayside scammers too

MoJo

[GreenV8S]

Of course, if you stopped to ask then you would be breaking the law as you are only allowed to use the hard shoulder in an emergency and not allowed to park where they are at all. Don't do as I do, do as I say ...

[Dwight VanDriver]

Peter

The Traffic Management Act 2003 gives them the authority to (police) patrol roads for which the Sec of State is the Authority.

Perfectly legal.

DVD

[Peter Ward]

Thanks, DVD. Appreciated.