Parking work vehicles

[damekindness]

We live in a busy road - parking is at a premium as there's only on street parking for miles around (think terraced streets with houses converted into flats )

I really gets the ache with people bringing their big work vans and flat bed trucks after work (utilities firms mostly) and taking up huge spaces. Often bumped up on the pavement making life difficult for pedestrians. Can't be good PR for the national firms they are from

AIBU to expect people to leave their enormous work vehicles in the work yard?

Yabu, a lot of these people will be responding at short notice to all areas of the country to fix broken power lines, gas leaks, etc, and won't have the time to go back to the yard to grab a van.

If the vehicles are legal they can park where they like (as long as not illegal). Shouldn’t be blocking payments.
But if you smelt gas would you want to wait a couple of extra hours for the van to be fetched from a depot?

YABU. How do you know that they don’t have to get in the van the next morning and drive straight to a job? Or that the work van is their only vehicle?

Even if those things don’t apply, YABU anyway. Your beef is with your local council not implementing a permit on the road for residents, not people parking legally. Can’t stand and won’t buy into this weird possessiveness about a public road: if a vehicle’s road tax has been paid and there are no parking restrictions it’s first come first serve and everyone has the right to use the road for parking.

If the vehicles were parked on the road YABU.

However if they’re blocking pavements that’s not acceptable.

There’s a certain weight limit around here over which works vehicles cannot be parked in residential streets, might be worth checking with your council.

AIBU to expect people to leave their enormous work vehicles in the work yard?

Yes bc that would be ridiculous. We don't all live close to the depot. Having the use of a company vehicle often means employees don't have to own their own car.

Report them for pavement blocking.

Blocking pavements is not OK, but this reminds me that when I was a child, some of our neighbours complained to both the council and British Gas (his employers) about my dad parking a work van outside our house. On our quiet cul-de-sac. It lowered the tone.

Unfortunately YABU. We have loads of big work vans and I can never get parked. As these 'workmen' never seem to go to work. But they are legal and I just have to park ages away because I work long hours.

Our operational teams take work vehicles home. They normally visit sites straight from home and are on standby so could need to leave at any time. All vehicles are tracked and any non work use is a breach of contract. If they are causing an obstruction contact the company but not sure anything will change

So if they are all switched to driving estate cars your problem would be solved?
No because they are just the vehicles those people drive that happen to have their work logos on.

You sound like you’re being snobby against the type of people who may drive them.

Don't be ridiculous karris. It's just someone that wants a cat in hells chance of parking on her street after a long day at work.

No not snobby couldn't care less if it's a dustman or a duke ...just miffed about parking! However - people have made good points about the need for on call people to be near home. Good point I hadn't thought of