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1 August 2014

WHY is there never a visitor parking bay available when you’re running late for a very important meeting?

With the nearest pay and display car park some ten minutes away, you’re left with little choice but to leave your car in the nearest available space, paying little attention to the warning signs.

Once the driver parking fine has been settled, it cannot be appealed, leaving the small business with no option but to pay the penalty

Now probably isn’t the time to worry about driver parking fines.

For business car managers, this is an all-too familiar story.

Your sales team would rather go without expensive takeaway coffees for a month than turn up late for a meeting, leaving you to deal with the inevitable driver parking fines.

It’s a headache, but spare a thought for your roving workforce, it’s a jungle out there.

Day in, day out, they’re faced with confusing signs, bus lanes, congestion charges, low emission zones, toll roads and average speed cameras.

It’s a little wonder they leave the office at all.

Sadly, we can’t promise to magic away the driver parking fines, but we can help to ease the pain.

And for SME small fleet managers, every little helps, right?

Of course, the first rule of the driver parking fines club is to only park in a marked bay and to ensure you’ve thrown enough spare cash into the machine to cover the time it takes to complete your really-rather-important meeting.

But as we know all too well, that’s not always possible.

Small businesses that lease their company cars are encouraged to contact their leasing company to ask how they process driver parking fines, with figures from ACFO, the fleet operators organisation, suggesting that up to half of all driver parking fines are automatically paid, without the business car manager being offered the opportunity to appeal.

Once the driver parking fine has been settled, it cannot be appealed, leaving the small business with no option but to pay the penalty, often with an administration charge placed on top.

Knowing how the contract hire or leasing company handles fines will help small businesses in the long run.

Regardless of whether you own or lease your company cars, business car managers should ensure that all drivers keep a record of who was driving which car, when and where.

So in the event of a driver parking fine being received, it will be quick to identify the driver in question and decide whether or not to appeal the penalty charge.

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