• By their parking . . . so shall ye
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know them. Perhaps it was the shock of actually being able to drive to Commercial Motor's 24th Fleet Management Conference that threw delegates (this year's FMC was held at the Birmingham Metropole, rather than the Royal Lancaster Hotel in the heart of London where parking space is non-existent).
Whatever the reason it was surprising, if not a little disturbing, to see how many of the cars in the adjoining car parks were parked with little regard for the the white lines marking off each bay.
Most common was the "edger", a natty little manoeuvre which left the tyres exactly inline (and on top of) the dividing Line — just right for a bit of door, or head banging. Then there was the "drifter" with the wheels on the wrong side of the line. Best, or most annoying depending on your view point, was the "halfway houser" — smack in the middle of two bays, preventing anything other than a narrowcabbed Sinclair C5 access into the remaining space.
Of course these badlyparked cars could belong to visitors of other parts of the National Exhibition Centre.
Let's hope so — otherwise there are a few top transport executives who could certainty learn a lot from watching their IIGV 1 drivers backing into a loading bay.