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[cleggy]

We all know how these money making schemes work, but are they allowed to park on the pavement in order to hide themselves  Eg behind a bus shelter etc?

[Tonka.]

If you challenge one as to why his cash collecter van is obstructing the pavement, they get very irate 

[ninjapirate]

They are not allowed to 'hide' must be visible from a certain distance, have a speed camera sign within a certain distance, and be marked as a camera van iirc those are der rulez  might be differant for car tax ones.

[cleggy]

Will do that Tonka they park on the main road at the end of our crescent covering either direction, one behind a tree the other behind a bus stop. The local shopkeeper gets his transit out and parks right behind them. They get a bit irate at him

[the alarming man]

not thing like the kent driver who got done for not being in proper control of his car....as he went past he gave the van the one finger salute which was caught on the vans cctv cameras

[geoffr70]

I'm not bothered by speed vans and the like, they won't catch me, well they might on the motorway and dual carriageways, but there's a spot near to me where one parks up.

It's in the block paved centre bit of a 30 mph dual carriageway, next to railings. He has to drive up a kerb to get there. Now as said, doesn't bother me, but surely you can't break the law to enforce the law? There is no marked out police bay or anything, and as obscure as it seems (we all do it) it's illegal to mount the kerb.

If I parked my car there I'd get done.

[millwall]

not thing like the kent driver who got done for not being in proper control of his car....as he went past he gave the van the one finger salute which was caught on the vans cctv cameras

remember that being on local news

[Vamps]

I'm not bothered by speed vans and the like, they won't catch me, well they might on the motorway and dual carriageways, but there's a spot near to me where one parks up.

It's in the block paved centre bit of a 30 mph dual carriageway, next to railings. He has to drive up a kerb to get there. Now as said, doesn't bother me, but surely you can't break the law to enforce the law? There is no marked out police bay or anything, and as obscure as it seems (we all do it) it's illegal to mount the kerb.

If I parked my car there I'd get done.

There is no place to speed in Sunderland, got speed cameras everywhere, not that they have got me.....

[sticka_v8_init]

Will do that Tonka they park on the main road at the end of our crescent covering either direction, one behind a tree the other behind a bus stop. The local shopkeeper gets his transit out and parks right behind them. They get a bit irate at him

Love that shopkeeper. Had one round our way parked on double yellows within 10 ft of the main junction (illegal parking  )

[geoffr70]

I'm not bothered by speed vans and the like, they won't catch me, well they might on the motorway and dual carriageways, but there's a spot near to me where one parks up.

It's in the block paved centre bit of a 30 mph dual carriageway, next to railings. He has to drive up a kerb to get there. Now as said, doesn't bother me, but surely you can't break the law to enforce the law? There is no marked out police bay or anything, and as obscure as it seems (we all do it) it's illegal to mount the kerb.

If I parked my car there I'd get done.

There is no place to speed in Sunderland, got speed cameras everywhere, not that they have got me.....

They got me a few times doing 50 in a 30 outside a college 











But I had blue lights on hahaha

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

They are not allowed to 'hide' must be visible from a certain distance, have a speed camera sign within a certain distance, and be marked as a camera van iirc those are der rulez  might be differant for car tax ones.

All myths. If they want to disguise themselves as a bush, they can. No signs required.

[Sir Tigger KC]

My mate was the manager of a Majestic wine in Bristol.  One day the 'Safety' camera van parked up in the shops car park!! and trained the camera down the road, until my mate went out and told them to break off!! and they did!! 

[geoffr70]

My mate was the manager of a Majestic wine in Bristol.  One day the 'Safety' camera van parked up in the shops car park!! and trained the camera down the road, until my mate went out and told them to break off!! and they did!! 

Good - he should've clamped them

[MaxV6]

it's the buggers that disguise themselves as orange motorway maintenance vehicles and park up on bridges over the m6 in Cumbria i find a tad irritating..... 


i mean, if they were white, and had stripey bits,   fair comment,     but looking like  something else.....   NO FAIR>


(mind you it's better than looking like a bloody horse box .....   Heddlu Gogledd Cymru,  i'm talking to you, you sneaky gits....   )

[albitz]

My mate was the manager of a Majestic wine in Bristol.  One day the 'Safety' camera van parked up in the shops car park!! and trained the camera down the road, until my mate went out and told them to break off!! and they did!! 

I had one stood in my garden with a speed gun who had the cheek to try to tell me I was speeding on my bike as I approached my own house, many years ago. I asked him if he had the owners permission to be where he was,when he told me he had I told him he was lying and I would put a complaint in, then drove into my own driveway and parked the bike. The look on his face when I did was priceless.