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AIBU to have made a complaint?

7 replies

Mightyfedup · 10/08/2018 21:19

Live in a small street with tiny front garden so road is very near to the house. Delivery driver parks in front of my house and leaves his engine running for around 15 minutes. Fumes coming into lounge as window is open.
I ask him to move or switch off engine as fumes are giving me a headache and making me feel sick. He says he cannot switch off the engine as he has frozen goods in the van. I ask him to move his van or I will make a complaint to his company. I ask for his details and he refuses to give them.
I go back into my house and he continues to stay with the engine on for another 5 minutes. Only when I went to take his registration he drove off and then comes back about 10 minutes later to do his delivery.

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DroningOn · 10/08/2018 21:21

Where I live sitting with the engine running can get you a fine so I'd say no YANBU

sagasleathertrousers · 10/08/2018 21:22

He'll be early for his delivery I guess. I don't think there's that much you can do. Shut your window?

WhereYouLeftIt · 10/08/2018 21:34

No, YANBU! You asked him to switch off or move and you gave him a reason why that most people would have been sympathetic to. He refused to do either (even with frozen goods, he could have moved as requested). You bet I would have complained to his company!

And being early for his delivery - I've had Ocado deliveries, and their drivers phone and ask if it's OK to deliver early, so not necessarily the issue.

NewYearNewMe18 · 10/08/2018 21:37

He's not doing anything illegal. Why do you want to get him into trouble? You don't own the road.

Fluffyears · 10/08/2018 22:03

He is doing something illegal,leaving an idling engine can get you a fine.

Vehicle idling is an offence against the Road Traffic (Vehicle Emissions) (Fixed Penalty) (England) Regulations 2002. The law states that is an offence to idle your engine unnecessarily when stationary. If you fail to turn your engine off after being spoken to you may be issued with a fixed penalty notice of £20.

MrsJonSno · 10/08/2018 22:07

I had a similar issue a while ago. My house is on the corner of two roads and a local secondary school decided outside my house would be the perfect collection point for the morning school bus at 7am. They’d leave the engine running and idling with exhaust fumes coming through the window every morning for about 15-20 mins and all the kids would stand by the bus messing about and shouting until it pulled away. I complained and they haven’t done it since. Not nice at all.

TinaTeacake · 10/08/2018 23:36

The law states that is an offence to idle your engine unnecessarily when stationary
Presumably if the vehicle has a freezer unit, its not unnecessary. Unless he's bullshitting

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