I drove past a transporter lorry this morning. It was parked on double yellow lines, and I got to thinking...


There was room for 8 cars on it, but presumably if it was left there only the lorry bit would get a parking ticket, so...

In places like London where parking is expensive would this be a viable business - park your car transporter on double yellows, knowing you will get a fine, but charge people enough to cover it?

The only issue with this is that the transporters often get clamped even whilst parked only for a few minutes to make a delivery (I know, my ex-hubby drove a transporter for a number of years).

You also have the practical problem that everyone has to arrive back to take their car in the opposite order to how they arrived, since the trailer has only one way on and off. Any parking attendant worth their salt would just wait on the double yellows until the owner of the car at the front came back first and then ticket all of the cars as they came off the trailer to allow the car at the front back off again.

Ah well, back to the drawing board then!

I thought the transporter guy could keep the keys and offer a valet parking system, but I guess you are right, they'd all get a ticket when he manouvered them.

Shame, as I'd already mentally spent the money I was going to make!

(Thinks: you could take people over the congestion charge boundary for a fee though...)