Because we all love a parking thread... AIBU to think you don't park an articulated lorry in a residential cul-de-sac?

[Taz1212]

So I arrived home this afternoon to find that I couldn't turn left into our cul-de-sac because one of the residents has decided to park his articulated lorry in a parking bay large enough for one additional car (a car was already at the top end of it). His top half is completely covering the path and his rear end is so far out into the road that you have to either reverse into the cul-de-sac or drive past it, turn around in the road and approach it from the other direction.

He's been parking a large work van in the parking bay for the past few weeks (against the rules in our title deeds which state no commercial vehicles are to be parked overnight in the parking bays) but the van appears to have morphed overnight into this monster.

I don't think there's anything that can be done- I don't know where they live, but AIBU to think this is a bit nuts?

(Will attach photos in the next post- have blurred them so you can't read the details but thought I'd separate the posts in case anyone does think they are identifying)

[DancingHat]

Real hauliers don't do this Love this comment. It's absolutely true too. Anyone who values their professions reputation would never do this. There's plenty of bays by A roads etc where I see truckers parked up. We occasionally have a huge one of those in the original pic parked on a main-ish road in our village. Maybe once a month or so hence I've never reported it but thanks Disgrace for letting me know how I could if it got more frequent.

[snowgirl29]

Re the Insurance comment. One of Ex-DHs friends couldn't claim on his Insurance when his Car was damaged. On his Application he said he parked the car on his drive. It was parked on the street across the dropped kerb of the drive when it was clipped badly on the sides. Insurance wouldn't pay out as it wasn't where he'd said it is kept overnight. I'm presuming that the company's insurance had to state where their vehicles were kept.

[SoupDragon]

who see nothing wrong with what their driver did

Are they thick? He is parked on the bloody pavement for a start. there is nothing right about that, given there do not appear to be parking bays marked up on the pavement.

[Lweji]

Ups, wrong thread.

not sure how that happened.

[Lweji]

ExH was actually a SAHP and I worked full time.

There were other reasons for me to go for full custody, but he had always said he'd go for full custody and take DS away.
He has only contested the maintenance payments and can hardly manage once a week on Skype.

[snowgirl29]

I feel your pain OP. We had neighbours that left a monstrosity outside ours every night for months on end. But that lorry makes our eyesore look positively like a mini Cooper!

You could ring the company up and complain. He will get a ticking off from his Boss but then they'll know someone from the neighbourhood complained.
Also, I'm pretty sure that this invalidates insurance purposes? Aren't such lorries meant to be loaded somewhere safe each night? Like a Depot.

[BoreOfWhabylon]

What? Mumsnet has it's very own hairy trucker?

Certainly beats a sparkly ticker

[Lweji]

am I the only one a little bit in love with Disgrace

Not at all.

I'm particularly happy to have found THE hairy trucker. I can sleep better knowing that he exists and will stalk him forever.

[emwithme]

Pipbin - no. I am also more than a little bit in love with Disgrace (and as someone who once worked in transport - both operationally and in recruitment - I agree with the reporting it to the Traffic Commissioner).

[Tanith]

That's clinched it - Disgrace is definitely a Trucker

[DisgraceToTheYChromosome]

Oh fuck.

[Pipbin]

Nice of him to apologise but I would still report the company given their snotty response.
Also, if he was so tired that he had to park like that should he really have been in charge of a fucking huge lorry?

am I the only one a little bit in love with Disgrace?

[DisgraceToTheYChromosome]

BTW: 6 Daves out of 58 in the fleet, and 3 with Dave as a second name. Two of them are known as Big Dave and Even Bigger Dave.

[DisgraceToTheYChromosome]

Sounds typical for marquee hire; like scaffolders, they don't give a shit about the vehicle. If it were up to me, I'd go over the vehicle with a fine toothcomb, and I'd like to see the driver's forklift ticket for the Moffat on the back. Then turn over their tacho records. Then sniff for fag smoke in the cab (yes really, £300 offence).

Real hauliers don't do this shit.

[Lweji]

I hope you do report him.

His partner came knocking on your door, not him, and his own company is daring you to report them.
Well...

[Taz1212]

Well, I've since had another snotty response from the Company who see nothing wrong with what their driver did and will await to hear from the Traffic Commissioner. Suffice to say I won't ever be hiring a marquee from any companies based in Melrose.

[MayDivorceBeWithYou]

Result! Well handled (with bit of help from disgrace ;)

[Taz1212]

Final update. I showed the response to some of our neighbours and they also agreed it was a fob off so late yesterday I emailed the company back to say that we didn't think it was our responsibility to go knocking on doors to find out which house the vehicle belonged to so we'd decided to report him to the Traffic Commissioner (as per Disgrace's suggestion).

This seems to have worked and the company must have passed on my details because this morning, the driver's partner knocked on my door to apologise. Her partner had had a very long day at work, was tired and it won't happen again.

All done!

[silverlace]

Steady on Disgrace. Can you hear that faint rustling of fans as we all try to cool ourselves down?

[DisgraceToTheYChromosome]

All men of my age are hairy, especially the nostrils.

Actually, the best way to prove it would be to show you my forearms in about a week's time. The right one will be tanned, the left one not.

[Lweji]

Then again, how do we know you really are a hairy trucker and not just a bored housewife?

[HoldMeCloserTonyDanza]

even

[HoldMeCloserTonyDanza]

I am so pleased there is a MNer who really is a hairy trucker! :grin:

[Preminstreltension]

OK great. We've definitely had damage to trees, pavements etc. I've taken pics and will forward them to our council. Have not seen any public urination as yet but will up my curtain twitching forthwith!