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Near to my place of work there is a haulage company that has outgrown its yard area. The solution to this is to park trailers on a busy, long back street with multiple minor crossroads.
This morning there were five 40ft trailers parked on one side of the road. So I had to drive 200ft on the wrong side of the road, not knowing if a vehicle was going to emerge from a side street on my right.
This is a Google Maps photo of the road with just one trailer parked. This gives an idea of the hazard potential.
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Is it legal to stuff the road full of trailers like this?
Who can I notify?
Council Highways Dept?
Police and Council probably, should probably have some sort of lights/warnings?
Single yellow line? Are there some signs with timed restrictions?
Probably in breach of their operator's licence too. Park a car under the hitch and leave a note asking if they want to discuss it.
Take photos and report it to the police. If they do nothing, post them up on social media.
When I was having a similar problem the police refused to come down and look during the day time, visiting instead at night when all the vans had been moved back into their yard. Unfortunately this was pre-Twitter so all I could do was write to my council and MP who also failed to act.
Single yellows, there will be signs saying what the restrictions are.
Might be a job for vosa (or whatever they're called now) part of the process getting an operators license is registering where you're going to keep the vehicles - 'on the street' is unlikely to have been in the application
I've often wondered if you parked an untaxed car on a trailer on the road if you were breaking the law.
Annoying, but legal.
A guy in Edinburgh parked his caravan on a single yellow line right outside the garage the parking wardens start their scooter patrols from. They could do nothing.
If that's parked overnight, with the hitch end facing oncoming traffic, unlit and with no reflectors, surely it can't be legal.
nealglover - Member
Good luck
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/11758268.amp
Looks like we have found the new solution to people who think they own the road outside their house 😆
"We can understand the resident's frustration but we follow national legislation with parking enforcement, and one of the criteria for being able to fine a vehicle is that it must have an engine.
Park a car under the hitch and leave a note asking if they want to discuss it.
I wouldn't advise this. You might find your car in a different location when you go to collect...... 😉
Looks like we have found the new solution to people who think they own the road outside their house
If they're not classed as vehicles, surely then they must be classed the same as things like skips and subject to that legislation instead?
If parked on the road, they must be lit overnight. Highway Code Rule 250, which is a "MUST NOT" and backed by law. Police and/or council can enforce.
They are also quite possibly in breach of their O licence, where they have to say where they are keeping stuff overnight. This needs to be so as to not cause a nuisance and they wouldn't accept on the road. DVSA would enforce.
Probably in breach of their operator's licence
I would have thought, definitely in breach.