Can Parking Eye legally enforce a parking fine for overstaying the 2hour maximum by 35 minutes at motorway service areas
NO! its private land, therefore the “fine” is actually an invoice as opposed a fine! DO NOT RESPOND TO THE TICKET, and instruct the company you drive for to do the same!
it isnt legally enforceable!
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No, they can send you a speculative invoice but that’s all it is.
Just file it under “Bin” and ignore it, they will send you a few more letters including one in BIG SCARY RED INK but eventually they will just go away.
NO ignore it !!!
It’s as legally enforceable as it would be if your next-door neighbour sent you a bill for £90 for parking outside his house. I get one of these a week, just ignore them.
Harry Monk:
It’s as legally enforceable as it would be if your next-door neighbour sent you a bill for £90 for parking outside his house. I get one of these a week, just ignore them.
You obviously don’t get on with your neighbour, Harry 
Roymondo:
Harry Monk:
It’s as legally enforceable as it would be if your next-door neighbour sent you a bill for £90 for parking outside his house. I get one of these a week, just ignore them.You obviously don’t get on with your neighbour, Harry
Harry Monk:
It’s as legally enforceable as it would be if your next-door neighbour sent you a bill for £90 for parking outside his house. I get one of these a week, just ignore them.
The more I see ur comments the more my opinion of you grows…
I’d love to be in a RDC when you decide to mess them about LOL
Recently, I had money taken out of my wages by my employer without any reason. My wage slip just stated ‘Miscellaneous’ on it. I wondered why this money had been taken so I phoned the office. When I phoned the office, I spoke with someone in accounts and was told it was because I had a parking fine! Exactly the same as the one the OP mentioned. 5 minutes after requesting they give me back my money they took off me without asking, I had the boss (owner) of the company I work for phone me back. Then after a ten minute argument, he told me that he wouldn’t allow the accounts to give me back my money as he had already paid the fine and it had already cost him 75p (for the cost of the cheque & a stamp!?) He also said he wouldn’t have let me fight the fine because it would have also cost him more money to do so, hiring solicitors etc! I think that it’s totally unfair to just automatically pay it then take it out of my wages without my permission and not give me the chance to fight it. 
Oh, the truck I was in was caught on their cctv coming into the services then leaving 2hrs 35mins later. I said, we could’ve easily told them I had a problem with the truck (or whatever) but of course it was just easier for my boss to just pay it, knowing he was going to take that same amount off me!!!
Contact acas because that’s completely illegal.
Illegal deduction of wages.
I came out of Aldi and noticed this yellow sticker on the window. It said Parking Fine, so I rang the company and said “Thanks!”
Wheel Nut:
I came out of Aldi and noticed this yellow sticker on the window. It said Parking Fine, so I rang the company and said “Thanks!”
Go to the pepipoo forums, because sometimes parking eye end up sending out court letters (not fake ones either). I got a bit help from pepipoo and a letter drafted. End result…ticket cancelled. How long after the ‘offence’ was the ticket issued?
Everyone keeps claiming that these charges are “unenforcable” or “illegal”
I don’t see that.
If you park where there are signs informing you of limits and charges, surely you are accepting those terms and as such can be charged according to the terms.
I think that what is actually meant is that the “fines” are uneconomic to pursue through the courts and that most companies don’t bother to pursue them.
However if you think of a big outfit with lots of trucks , it may be that the number of invoices for excess parking could reach a point where it does become worthwhile for the parking company to pursue them.
SHYTOT:
Can Parking Eye legally enforce a parking fine for overstaying the 2hour maximum by 35 minutes at motorway service areas
I had exactly the same issue with Parking Eye a few months back. Stopped at Woodall Services on the M1 northbound, very early hours of a Monday morning after a Sunday trip to the smoke.
I pulled off the carriageway thinking I’ll have an hours or so power-nap in the seat, nodded off and woke up about 2h 40 mins later.
The main service area wasn’t open - otherwise I would have had a coffee.
A few days later Parking Eye bill arrives. It stated I can appeal via email or post, to enclose any evidence of a purchase. I sent them an email as per their appeal instructions, explaining safety break etc, that the cafe was closed and I’d taken a very short overstay.
Appeal was rejected: Obvious standard letter.
I tried again with the same result. (they do not answer their phones either). So I sent them another email message saying: See you in court. I never heard anything else.
With my friend - a lawyer advising me - who said: If the court papers come, there is an opportunity for you to write to the court explaining your situation, he was confident that given my specific circumstances the judge would either reject the claim as nothing to answer, or recommend mediation which would most likely result in a much reduced agreed settlement. You do not then get a CCJ and even if you did end up going the whole way and found against you, provided you pay within a certain timeframe, any CCJ is wiped off the record.
Which service area was it? Name em!
parking eye are issuing court papers to people that ignore them
have a look at pepipoo most of the threads are "parking eye court papers "
del949:
Everyone keeps claiming that these charges are “unenforcable” or “illegal”
I don’t see that.
If you park where there are signs informing you of limits and charges, surely you are accepting those terms and as such can be charged according to the terms.
I think that what is actually meant is that the “fines” are uneconomic to pursue through the courts and that most companies don’t bother to pursue them.
However if you think of a big outfit with lots of trucks , it may be that the number of invoices for excess parking could reach a point where it does become worthwhile for the parking company to pursue them.
One of the problems with these “payments” is that they do not only compensate the company for the loss of the space, they are making vast profits out of people who do pay them. Fines can only be levied by a court.
If a car park owner charges £5 per hour and someone stays for 2 hours, that company has only lost £5 in revenue
Wheel Nut:
One of the problems with these “payments” is that they do not only compensate the company for the loss of the space, they are making vast profits out of people who do pay them. Fines can only be levied by a court.If a car park owner charges £5 per hour and someone stays for 2 hours, that company has only lost £5 in revenue
Indeed, I also looked through Parking Eye’s website which at the time made all kinds of claims about their reasoning, basically it didn’t stack up. Any claim for compensation must be able to demonstrate a loss, if the loss they are claiming grossly exceeds reality - then that’s not reasonable. Any legal claim must be reasonable…
In the past It used to be easier to ignore these letters and treat them as garbage, which i have done twice.
Now I would send a cheque for the true cost of the parking with perhaps an extra £1 for goodwill in an offer of full and final settlement.
In the unlikely event this gets to small claims court/mediation (which rareley award opposing parties costs anyway) you will have a good case for showing you have been prepared to offer a reasonable amount which if rejected was unreasonable, also theres no need to involve solicitors, representing yourself is easy in small claims proceedings.
Course you have to weigh up the cost of having time of work.
But if you have made a true offer already and then receive genuine court papers I believe you can counter claim for the loss of wages and time off work in dealing with the matter. Your defence will be that you have offered a realistic and reasonable settlement and on the balance of probabilities the parking company is acting unreasonably and wasting courts time, etc
I’m no solicitor though, this is just what i would do.