Can tbey park in loading bays/spaces outside shops? I was delivering in Honiton High Street this morning, and an old woman (yes in a Micra) was parked slap bang in unloading bay with the neighbouring disabled bays empty. I indicated I wanted to get onto the bay but she just shook her head and waved her blue badge. She soon yelled out of the window about being inconsiderate when I parked in the disabled spaces and started to unfold the taillift. She moved off in about 2 minutes so I simply reversed out of the disabled space into the bay, but I wonder if disabled can still get tickets for bad parking?
Yes they can get tickets. They cannot park where there is a restriction on loading, or in a residents permit only space, in a bay marked out specifically for loading only, or in any place that causes a hazard or a danger to others. They can even get a ticket for putting the badge in the windscreen upside down! Unfortunately, not all holders understand the rules pertaining to them.
Yes they are quite strict with them and the holder has a comprehensive set of rules to follow. I shall try to scan mine and put them up but if you park in a layby or taxi rank you will get done as has been happening a lot in Derby. There is one thing though, you cannot clamp a disabled badge holders car but they can still be fined or lose the priviledge
They can get into a lot of museums and tourist attractions for free.
Own Account Driver:
They can get into a lot of museums and tourist attractions for free.
Aye! National Trust is still expensive though 
grumpybum:
Yes they can get tickets. They cannot park where there is a restriction on loading, or in a residents permit only space, in a bay marked out specifically for loading only, or in any place that causes a hazard or a danger to others. They can even get a ticket for putting the badge in the windscreen upside down! Unfortunately, not all holders understand the rules pertaining to them.
Complete opposite up here (W ■■■■■■■■■ They do what the ■■■■ they want and get away with it. Anybody else tried delivering to Miss Selfridges in Whitehaven between 0900-1700 on a weekday? ■■■■■■■ impossible. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, 99% of them aren’t disabled, they’re just old, decrepit, senile and think they own the ■■■■■■■ place. I could rant and rave about this all night but I’m up at the crack of noon.
Problem is you don’t have to look/be phsically disabled. A woman near where I live has one because her son has ADHD (naughty little git syndrome) and apparently needs to park close to Sainsburys’ to reduce his stress levels. Perhaps we all need blue badges in our cabs then?!
Muckaway:
Can tbey park in loading bays/spaces outside shops? I was delivering in Honiton High Street this morning, and an old woman (yes in a Micra) was parked slap bang in unloading bay with the neighbouring disabled bays empty. I indicated I wanted to get onto the bay but she just shook her head and waved her blue badge. She soon yelled out of the window about being inconsiderate when I parked in the disabled spaces and started to unfold the taillift. She moved off in about 2 minutes so I simply reversed out of the disabled space into the bay, but I wonder if disabled can still get tickets for bad parking?
Well,I went to do a shop in Edinburgh the other week. Edinburgh is notorious for the “green meanie” traffic wardens,they are absolute ■■■■■. A store has a loading bay out front,just big enough to get a truck,or 3 cars in. I got there to find 2 cars blocking the bay,a polo and a Q7,both with disabled stickers. The shop didn’t know anything about them,so I double parked beside them and gave it 10 mins.
After waiting a while,it was obvious they werent about. I spotted a traffic warden and asked him to do something. He walked over,spotted the blue badges,shrugged his shoulders and told me that there was nothing he could do. So double parked,did the delivery and hoped the warden wouldn’t give me a ticket.
Muckaway:
Can tbey park in loading bays/spaces outside shops? I was delivering in Honiton High Street this morning, and an old woman (yes in a Micra) was parked slap bang in unloading bay with the neighbouring disabled bays empty. I indicated I wanted to get onto the bay but she just shook her head and waved her blue badge. She soon yelled out of the window about being inconsiderate when I parked in the disabled spaces and started to unfold the taillift. She moved off in about 2 minutes so I simply reversed out of the disabled space into the bay, but I wonder if disabled can still get tickets for bad parking?
Ah east devon gods waiting room lol I know what you mean about honiton high street can be a real pain to park its even worse on saturday with the market there as well. So I tend to keep away till later in the day lol
Good old Honiton high street. Blue Badge holders are the bane of anyone’s driving career.
Hiya…i was at the york motorhome show a few years ago. the motorhome next to me had a bluebagde
in the window, plus an electric mobility scooter on a rack at the back, anyhow time gose by their’s a woman
playing rounder’s with a couple of kids and fooling around…later on we go to the entertainment tent…
whoosh their goes the woman from the next van straight passed every one and on the front row of the
show, yes on the scooter and had people geting her drinks for her…no wonder they get blue bage holders
a bad name. she perhaps runs the london marathon she was that fit.
here i’am with a crankey old driver’s knee getting on with life.
John
Call me crazy, but marked loading bays should be for vehicles actively making deliveries or pickups, simple as that. No parking whatsoever.
I used to deliever to a shop in Middlesborough, and there was a marked loading bay at the back of the shop that was always filled with cars… all had ‘Loading Bay Parking Permit’ tickets in the windows. Whats the point?
Muckaway:
‘… parked slap bang in unloading bay with the neighbouring disabled bays empty … I wonder if disabled can still get tickets for bad parking…?’
My immediate considerations in this situation:
1 Take a picture of the scene from all angles with the phone - enabling the sound effect beforehand too with exaggerated references to the wrist-watch for timings and a notepad for sketches, etc: After all, it’s not as if you’ve much else to do.
2 Remember that it’s polite to share and rude not to: Thus, ring-in the reality of life to your transport desk/clerk and share your joy with them.
3 Bring the delivery addressee on board and onto the street to strengthen the argument that too often, I feel, us professionals battle against aggressors alone: The consignee pays the rent & local taxes etc, whereas we are mucky thugs who are broadly loathed by UK society in general and need team-mates to avoid getting overly stroppy with muppets. A readiness to append ‘inability to legally unload’ on the delivery doc’s might help.
4 In the presence of the obstructor, contact Police non-emergency on 101 to report an obstruction of a legitimate delivery to a council tax paying, authorised merchant.
rob22888:
‘… a marked loading bay at the back of the shop that was always filled with cars … all had ‘Loading Bay Parking Permit’ tickets in the windows. Whats the point…?’
I can’t answer the question but believe that the point actively demonstrates ultra-liberalism of doing what one wants, where one wants at one’s discretion to ‘stuff-the-rest’.
The alternative is nasty accountability that the UK government cant afford to enforce although, strangely enough, it can afford to enforce the compulsory DCPC for drivers to eat the nonsense thrown from the high alter in Brussels
A few years ago we arrived in a tour bus overnight to I think it was Bedford Civic Hall, we arranged some traffic cones behind us for the truck which was taking a 24 at the last gig. In the morning we got up and the traffic cones were all over the place and 2 cars with blue badges were parked behind us where we had planed on the truck being. The truck arrived and reversed in, I will not say the name of the trucking company on this one or the driver as the lad was not the best at reversing. so he brought most of Bedford to a standstill with a blindside reverse out of what i guess is its high street. With the space to park taken up there was no option but block off the road as it was a dead end, just a car park, we found out how busy the road is in the next hour.
The venue requires you loading into a small room, the ramping onto the stage, so no way was it going to be quick and the local crew seemed older than the venue. First we got a bloke wanting to get his van in to make a delivery at the other end of this street, he got very animated with our driver what he would do to him if he did not move, but backed down when the crew arrived out the back of the trailer to see what the fuss was about. He parked in front of the truck and then walked up the street with a small parcel 
Also most of the small car park people wanted out, the traffic wardens were not helping, we stuck to out guns, we could not have the truck keep moving. We got a shout as we started unloading the dance floor and watched as a chap arrived to one of the blue badge cars ladened down with shopping, not totally sure what he was disabled with, possible deaf as he didn’t seem to listen to what our driver was saying. Sensing the opportunity our lad pulled across the road and let him out, pulling tight to the back end of the remaining car put the back end of the trailer beyond the door, but at least we were not blocking anyone apart from the one remaining car which was trapped between the truck and tour bus. That person arrived back mid afternoon and the bus driver let her out.
The load out went much better at midnight…
Ive often blocked them in …off loaded…then took a break
These old gits used to wind me up big time , until I worked alongside an old head delivery driver he pointed out the road is there so use it!!!
I don,t struggle I block the road and the cars in the loading bay
Sometimes you get abuse but I never reply to the monkeys 
crack on…
nickb67:
Complete opposite up here (W ■■■■■■■■■ They do what the [zb] they want and get away with it. Anybody else tried delivering to Miss Selfridges in Whitehaven between 0900-1700 on a weekday? [zb] impossible. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, 99% of them aren’t disabled, they’re just old, decrepit, senile and think they own the [zb] place. I could rant and rave about this all night but I’m up at the crack of noon.
This was 2 years ago now, delivering to Peacocks in Whitehaven. Diasbled badge, nowhere to be seen etc. After an amublance managed to just squeeze through I had enough of waiting, folded my O/S mirror in and went for it… Luckily, his wingmirror fitted underneath the body overhang of the 18 tonner…
my cousin has juvenile arthritis, she can barely walk some day’s and on other day’s she can running ring’s around the lot of us, they have a blue badge for her but only use it when its needed. a couple of week’s back, i had her for the day, and didn’t even think about getting the blue badge out, she was running ring’s around me most of the day 
nickb67:
grumpybum:
Yes they can get tickets. They cannot park where there is a restriction on loading, or in a residents permit only space, in a bay marked out specifically for loading only, or in any place that causes a hazard or a danger to others. They can even get a ticket for putting the badge in the windscreen upside down! Unfortunately, not all holders understand the rules pertaining to them.Complete opposite up here (W ■■■■■■■■■ They do what the [zb] they want and get away with it. Anybody else tried delivering to Miss Selfridges in Whitehaven between 0900-1700 on a weekday? [zb] impossible. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, 99% of them aren’t disabled, they’re just old, decrepit, senile and think they own the [zb] place. I could rant and rave about this all night but I’m up at the crack of noon.
and I can think of at least one that has his mother in laws badge photocopied and laminated so he can park his fat aris as near as possible to the shops