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London parking code plan to reduce truck parking misery
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Parking fines in the capital are costing the transport industry £50m per year, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Dominic Perry reports.
OPERATORS STRUGGLING to make deliveries in London in the face of crippling parking fines have been offered a ray of hope.
A code of practice on loading and unloading has been developed by the Freight Transport Association (FTA) in partnership with London's business community and several London boroughs.
The FTA estimates that parking fines, and the administration costs associated with processing them. are costing the distribution sector about £50m a year.
The Brewery Logistics Group. which had a key role in developing the code, says its members pay 000,000a year.
So far, four central London Boroughs have signed up to the code: the VIA hopes the remaining 28 will follow suit over the next 12 months, Steve Bennett, chair of the FI'A's Greater London Freight Council, says: "The code of practice has one key objective: best practice. This document needs to be rolled out across all companies delivering into the London area."
One aim is to standardise procedures across the whole of London. For example, observation periods the time a traffic warden is meant to wait to see if a truck is parked legitimately vary from 20 minutes to nothing at all (see panel, below). However, one council that has signed up to the code, Islington, is already threatening to derail future progress.
It has offered Exel's Tradeteam division a permit to deliver to one address for an annual fee of £3.000. John Crosk. project manager at Tradeteam. comments: "That's more than you'd collect in parking tickets every time you delivered."
The stakeholder group behind the code plans to develop a register of London delivery vehicles to simplify the administration of all London charges.