The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]

[LetsTryAgain]

DoubleD said:

Well it seems to work ok to me.

It works fine.
I can’t see any benefit to having the trailers have their own registration number.

[Hashtaggggg]

LetsTryAgain said:

DoubleD said:

Well it seems to work ok to me.

It works fine.
I can’t see any benefit to having the trailers have their own registration number.

Trailers have a separate MOT I think?

[LetsTryAgain]

Hashtaggggg said:

Trailers have a separate MOT I think?

They certainly do.
They have their own trailer number.

EG - C123456

[Frank7]

Rostfritt said:

If you ever want to tow anything, you need to get a copy of your plate made.
If you look at foreign lorries on the motorways, everywhere else does this, it is even common to see a tractor/trailer combination from two different countries. That can't be done properly with a UK trailer and very ambiguous what you do with a foreign trailer being towed with a UK tractor unit. Should they put the UK plate on the back, or just use the trailer reg?

Many years ago I did a couple of months on an HGV driver agency.
One job involved going to Harwich Ferry Terminal with a solo tractor unit.
At the terminal, trailers came in from Belgium and Holland and were pulled off the ferries by a dock worker driving a tractor unit.
I’d pick up the trailer, hook up the hydraulics and attach a power cable for the lights, then chain the number plate that was the same as my tractor unit to the trailer.
Only then could I legally take the trailer and load to its destination.

[Rostfritt]

Frank7 said:

Many years ago I did a couple of months on an HGV driver agency.
One job involved going to Harwich Ferry Terminal with a solo tractor unit.
At the terminal, trailers came in from Belgium and Holland and were pulled off the ferries by a dock worker driving a tractor unit.
I’d pick up the trailer, hook up the hydraulics and attach a power cable for the lights, then chain the number plate that was the same as my tractor unit to the trailer.
Only then could I legally take the trailer and load to its destination.

That kind of works, but legally do you need your own plate? The trailer has one? What happens if British Trailers are taken over to the continent? They can't make a copy of their plate to put on the trailer. It's a minor gap in an industry that barely concerns me. It is clearly something we are never going to fix as we have made a decision as a country to ignore methods of global co-operation that work everywhere else and just go our own way with everything. But it would save some faffing with a spare plate for lorry drivers whenever they swap trailers.

[Frank7]

Rostfritt said:

That kind of works, but legally do you need your own plate? The trailer has one? What happens if British Trailers are taken over to the continent? They can't make a copy of their plate to put on the trailer. It's a minor gap in an industry that barely concerns me. It is clearly something we are never going to fix as we have made a decision as a country to ignore methods of global co-operation that work everywhere else and just go our own way with everything. But it would save some faffing with a spare plate for lorry drivers whenever they swap trailers.

It’s not a lot of faff, it’s no big deal.
I’d guess that if a Brit trailer was taken by ferry to Zeebrugge or Oostende, the Brit trucker would have removed the plate that tallied with his tractor unit.
The Dutch or Belgian trucker would then, I guess, use his own plates when picking the trailer up over there.

[LetsTryAgain]

You don’t need a plate ‘made up’ every time.
Each tractor unit has a trailer plate in it.
It’ll probably even be in the O/S door card on most units.

Our way works fine.

[j3gme]

[kowalski655]

Bkacked out windows must have made it hard to see the lines
Apologies for crap picture

[Dick Dastardly]

Why is it often the smallest cars are the ones worst parked?

[Gad-Westy]

RammyMP said:

Vipers said:

uncleluck said:

gusm2 said:

Plenty of room on the other side of the road

Assuming they’re both parked, the car on the RHS is asking to be stoved in after a bend by your typical “I was only doing 30 driver” who wouldn’t be expecting a car parked round a bend.

Beat me to it, what a tard.

I get unreasonably wound up by fkwits who park on the zig zags, they’re there for a reason and that reason is to protect kids who might run out in to the road. I had a go at the head of my sons school once as he parked his car on the zig zags to unload it. You’d think the prick would know better!

Schools just seem to bring out the worst parking. My kid's school is obviously pretty quiet at present so loads of space for drop off if you need to use a car and yet there are still cars getting abandoned across the pavement or blocking up junctions. All for the sake of saving 20 yards of extra walking.

Parking should actually not be a problem at any normal time either as a pub near to the school allows use of its ample sized car park for parents but again the extra 100 yards of walking is just too much for some. All these cars abandoned everywhere and everyone can witness the problems it causes. Buses getting stuck. Pavements blocked and kids having to walk in roads etc. Driveways being blocked. They have signs up everywhere asking people not to and regularly send out letters and emails about it and it doesn't make any difference at all.

What goes through their heads?

[B19TOY]

Gad-Westy said:

What goes through their heads?

Perhaps a gentle breeze?

[vincegail]

Female drivers?

Dick Dastardly said:

Why is it often the smallest cars are the ones worst parked?

[carlove]

Dick Dastardly said:

Why is it often the smallest cars are the ones worst parked?

Driven by both the elderly and newly passed. Honda jazz slightly more likely to be elderly.

[Gad-Westy]

B19TOY said:

Gad-Westy said:

What goes through their heads?

Perhaps a gentle breeze?

Quite possibly! On a related note, the lollipop lady who'd worked outside the school for over 10 years quit last year because she was sick of the abuse she got from drivers. It's all anecdotal to me but apparently many cars refused to stop, many cars ploughing past at speed and regular verbal abuse from drivers too. All in a 20mph zone directly outside a school.

[Bobberoo99]

Gad-Westy said:

B19TOY said:

Gad-Westy said:

What goes through their heads?

Perhaps a gentle breeze?

Quite possibly! On a related note, the lollipop lady who'd worked outside the school for over 10 years quit last year because she was sick of the abuse she got from drivers. It's all anecdotal to me but apparently many cars refused to stop, many cars ploughing past at speed and regular verbal abuse from drivers too. All in a 20mph zone directly outside a school.

If ever there was a time and place to commit a couple of PC'S to for a quick return it would be this, a few random days of them ticketing badly parked cars, reckless driving, speeding, and anti social behaviour at various schools, It may make a few people rethink their behaviour, but in all likelihood probably not.

[LetsTryAgain]

Well the left have absolutely dismantled every single form of authority so it’s hardly a surprise people behave in such a fashion.
And the police also refuse to do their job, so that’s not likely either.

[DoubleD]

LetsTryAgain said:

And the police also refuse to do their job, so that’s not likely either.

Really?

[Mr lestat]

kowalski655 said:

Bkacked out windows must have made it hard to see the lines
Apologies for crap picture

They would have a job parking that correctly with the white Corsa where it is on the left hand side

[DoubleD]

Mr lestat said:

kowalski655 said:

Bkacked out windows must have made it hard to see the lines
Apologies for crap picture

They would have a job parking that correctly with the white Corsa where it is on the left hand side

Not really, just park about 3 foot further to the right into the next space. This is obviously presuming that the corsa parked 1st of course.