Commercial vehicles being parked on residential road

[TopCat]

A lorry parked on the road has to display lights at night but no one ever does. If this is so "crash" into said lorry and claim thousands back from their insurers for emotional distress and neck injuries.

 

[sim667]

A lorry parked on the road has to display lights at night but no one ever does. If this is so "crash" into said lorry and claim thousands back from their insurers for emotional distress and neck injuries.

Is there a size requirement for lorries to have to do that?

 

[sim667]

Did just find this though

220. Goods vehicles. Vehicles with a maximum laden weight of over 7.5 tonnes (including any trailer) MUST NOT be parked on a verge, pavement or any land situated between carriageways, without police permission. The only exception is when parking is essential for loading and unloading, in which case the vehicle MUST NOT be left unattended.

From the highway code...... Im pretty sure when laden that lorry is over 7.5 tonnes

 

[TopCat]

Is there a size requirement for lorries to have to do that?

With goods carrying vehicles anything with a unladen weight of over 1550 kg

 

[sim667]

The thing is I'm not sure I want to dob him in, incase he finds out who it was.

My housemate says he's well known for liking a scrap and tends to be overly confrontational.

 

[19sixtysix]

Parking at night from the highway code

248
Parking at night (248 to 252)

You MUST NOT park on a road at night facing against the direction of the traffic flow unless in a recognised parking space. Laws CUR reg 101 & RVLR reg 24
249

All vehicles MUST display parking lights when parked on a road or a lay-by on a road with a speed limit greater than 30 mph (48 km/h).
Law RVLR reg 24
250

Cars, goods vehicles not exceeding 1525 kg unladen weight, invalid carriages, motorcycles and pedal cycles may be parked without lights on a road (or lay-by) with a speed limit of 30 mph (48 km/h) or less if they are

• at least 10 metres (32 feet) away from any junction, close to the kerb and facing in the direction of the traffic flow
• in a recognised parking place or lay-by.

Other vehicles and trailers, and all vehicles with projecting loads, MUST NOT be left on a road at night without lights.
Laws RVLR reg 24 & CUR reg 82(7)

 

[sim667]

Ah its all 20 mph round where I live, although you wouldnt believe it.

 

[silverfish]

Remind me to put you on my blacklist !!

Might be best to go round personally and have a quiet word with them ?? You don't know the circumstances do you ?

All of you might want to remember something..... ''If you've got it,a lorry delivered it'' !! Think about it...

Yep but they don't deliver it and park there all day

 

[sim667]

Yep but they don't deliver it and park there all day

They parked it there on a friday and moved it on a monday morning last time.

The bloke lives down my road, also has two cars parked on the road, but doesnt leave his lorry at the yard because he cant be bothered to drive his car to the yard in the mornings.

His neighbour has four cars

My neighbour had a go at me about my housemates van.

Parking down my road is a fucking nightmare, but the lorry takes up 3 to 4 spaces, and I imagine would stop an ambulance getting down the road.

 

[mauvais]

Parking at night from the highway code

248
Parking at night (248 to 252)

You MUST NOT park on a road at night facing against the direction of the traffic flow unless in a recognised parking space. Laws CUR reg 101 & RVLR reg 24
249

This is the least observed and least enforced 'MUST' in the whole Highway Code.

 

[19sixtysix]

This is the least observed and least enforced 'MUST' in the whole Highway Code.

I'd ban it during the day. You see the idiots doing it, blocking traffic to park facing the wrong way and you know they'll do a u-turn when they leave.

 

[sim667]

No lorry for a good few days....

Maybe he's noticed that everyones been well pissed off..... Or maybe someone else complained to the popo