Courier Business Stuff

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“Meanwhile, the Green Party has urged the Mayor to extend it to transitdriving “white van man” in 2010.”

Yehbut we already know that it’s going to be extended to transits in 2010 so why are they bothering to do any urging.

It was announced months ago that the LEZ would apply to diesel vans over 1205kg unladen with effect from October 2010. It doesn’t apply to vans that meet Euro 3 standards though – including all vans registered after 01/01/2002 and many registered before that.

How many couriers drive 9 year old vans?

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There won’t be a charge to pass on Pat. Even for operators whose fleets aren’t already Euro 3 compliant it’s just a matter of bringing forward vehicle renewals by a year or two or only using the newest vehicles in a fleet for London deliveries.

Nobody is actually going to be paying the charge, except as a one off, because the alternatives make more financial sense.

Nobody’s going to pay £50k per year to enter the zone every day, rather than buy a newer vehicle and no customer is going to accept a £200 surcharge on a London delivery just because a transport company is running outdated vehicles.
 

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http://www2.fta.co.uk/news/pressreleases/archive/20080121FTAwins.htm

“Any non-compliant vehicle entering the zone after 4 February 2008 will, rather than get a Penalty Charge Notice, instead receive a warning letter giving the vehicle keeper 28 days to make the vehicle compliant. After that period any subsequent infringement will result in a Penalty Charge Notice being issued.”
 

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They’re wrong. If it’s a PCN rather than an FPN then ‘continuous loading’ includes taking the item, however small, to the delivery point and waiting while it’s checked and signed for. The Parking Adjudicator is bound to find in your favour if it gets that far.

That’s if it’s a PCN rather than a FPN, I’m not sure of the situation nowadays with FPNs.

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As long as there are no unloading restrictions you get as long as you reasonably need to actually unload. You may get a ticket after 10, 15 or 20 minutes (depending on the rules in the area) but the ticket will only be valid if you can’t show that you were unloading. Unloading includes the act of taking your delivery to the delivery premises and obtaining a signature.

The rules which the councils set out for the issuing of tickets aren’t the same as the rules which determine whether the ticket is valid or not.
 

Posted under Parking Tickets, Tolls, Charges & Fines

The High Court case was to do with Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) not Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs). PCNs are issued by Parking Attendants in areas where parking offences have been decriminalised and by Traffic Wardens in London for Red Route offences.

PCNs, except where enforcement by CCTV is in operation, must be handed to the driver or fixed to the vehicle at the time of the offence to be valid. In the case of enforcement by CCTV a PCN, along with the opportunity to pay the reduced penalty, is issued by post.

FPNs are issued by Police or Traffic Wardens and are valid whether or not they’re fixed to the vehicle or handed to the driver.
 

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It doesn’t come in until October 2010 for vans and even then it will only be for vehicles that don’t meet Euro III standards. So unless you’re running vans over 8 years old there won’t be a problem. 

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If you’ve got 10 vehicles or more (including cars) you can register for the fleet scheme. You get charged automatically every time a vehicle registered on the scheme enters the zone. The charge is reduced from £8 to £7 per day BUT there’s a £10 admin charge per vehicle per year and you have to make a pre-payment of 2 months anticipated charges. Fleet Scheme Brochure  http://www.cclondon.com/downloads/FleetSchemeBrochure.pdf
 

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