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Driver refuses coach park fine
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II A truck driver is refusing to pay a parking fine after he was forced to stop in a motorway service area coach park to take his statutory break when the truck park was full.
The driver says he stopped at Roadchef's Annandale services on the M74 for 15 minutes. There were queues of trucks trying to enter the main area and some were already in the coach park. There were no signs saying trucks were not permitted so he parked there. However, a month later he received a £60 penalty notice.
He says: "The first sign that you are greeted with is: "First two hours free". I was only there for 15 minutes. The attendants never advised me of the circumstances or issued me with a ticket. Was every vehicle that was parked there at the same time issued with a parking ticket or fine?
"My employer has no objection to paying for parking at any services but until they [Roadchef] can prove that I was given a ticket, I will not be paying the fine."
A spokesman for Roadchef says that it recognises truck drivers need to stop, but the number of parking spaces available at the service area adheres to government standards. He adds that sites are sigr posted advising of parkin charges and penalties for part ing the vehicle in a designate area without a proper perm for this use: "The driver corn plained that the lorry park wa full and decided to park in cor travention of the regulations i the area designated to coaches."