Taxi Driver Online

NOt strictly taxi BUT relevant to many of our recent Drop off charge discussions

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-48852890

A driver who wanted to avoid parking fees at Manchester Airport tried to pick up his family from a motorway hard shoulder, police said.

Officers stopped the Audi S3 as the driver waited for his passengers on the M56 on Tuesday, Greater Manchester Police tweeted.

The vehicle was seized after further checks revealed it was not insured.

The Highway Code says it is illegal to stop on a hard shoulder other than in an emergency.

Greater Manchester Police's (GMP) traffic division posted a picture of the car on Tuesday, explaining the driver had stopped on the M56 spur because he did not want to pay parking charges when he collected his family.

The post added officers "also noticed his illegal plates and checks revealed he also had no insurance".

The vehicle was seized and the driver was reported for three offences, said GMP.
Charges for entering Manchester Airport's short-stay car parks to collect passengers start at £4.50, according to its website.

A spokesman for the airport said it only monitored roads in the immediate vicinity of the "airport campus" and was not aware of issues with drivers parking at the roadside.

I suppose this is the consequence of hefty drop off and pick up charges

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

What an idiot.

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IDFIMH

Thick as mince, more like - imagine parking on the hard shoulder to pick people up, while car is uninsured and on illegal number plates

Looks like a reasonably expensive motor as well, so presumably not short of a bob or two. Or maybe the type who spends a shedload on a nice motor, but can't even afford to insure it, never mind pay parking charges

there are a lot of cars out there on false number plates people do it to escape parking fines and the number plate will be cloned from another identical vehicle

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Indeed, but suspect it was just a illegality relating to the plate itself, eg font size or misspacing etc.

If it had been a cloned motor then think police would have been making more of that.