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PSV driver and just got clamped

Lord Nikon · 2009-03-13 21:07:20

Great start to the night and I wish I stayed at home. I wouldn't mind but I only got out of the car to get a fare in the office. Friday 13th is alive and well :)

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13-03-2009 10:07pm

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Lord Nikon

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Great start to the night and I wish I stayed at home. I wouldn't mind but I only got out of the car to get a fare in the office.

Friday 13th is alive and well

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#2 13-03-2009 10:11pm
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There is a thread waiting to hear from you...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055511876

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#3 13-03-2009 10:12pm
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What's ye being a PSV driver got to do with you being clamped???

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#4 13-03-2009 10:14pm
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Did you put your hazards on?

When a PSV driver does that, anything goes! As well as parking you are allowed stop anywhere and block a lane of traffic no problems.
Your comrades know this already, maybe you should have used them

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#5 13-03-2009 10:46pm
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mikemac wrote: »

Did you put your hazards on?

When a PSV driver does that, anything goes! As well as parking you are allowed stop anywhere and block a lane of traffic no problems.
Your comrades know this already, maybe you should have used them

+1

Is there different rules of the road for PSV drivers? Don't answer I know you think there is.

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#6 13-03-2009 11:13pm
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I sincerely hope that after all your protests last week your not coming on here looking for pity?

Tough Sh*t

You Taxi men make enough to cover the cost of getting a clamp removed anyway!

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#7 13-03-2009 11:51pm
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I wouldn't mind but I park there most of the time, with no fear of getting clamped. The reciept the clamper gave me said I was parked on yellow lines, but I was actually on a worn away to nothing yellow box.

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#8 13-03-2009 11:57pm
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neuromancer wrote: »

on a worn away to nothing.

Never heard this before, what does that mean?

neuromancer wrote: »

I wouldn't mind but I park there most of the time, with no fear of getting clamped.

If they enforced it every time and clamped you several times, would you have minded?

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#9 13-03-2009 11:58pm
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SC024 wrote: »

I sincerely hope that after all your protests last week your not coming on here looking for pity?

Tough Sh*t

You Taxi men make enough to cover the cost of getting a clamp removed anyway!

Who said I was at the protest? Who said I drive a taxi? Who said taxi men make enough?

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#10 14-03-2009 12:10am
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mikemac wrote: »

Never heard this before, what does that mean?

Corrected, sorry.

mikemac wrote: »

If they enforced it every time and clamped you several times, would you have minded?

maybe if it was enforced properly and you knew that you would get clamped. No one is clamped on a Saturday going to mass, and the car park is full to overflowing. Picking me out as an easy target rather that picking 20 easy targets with more work to do.

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#11 14-03-2009 12:38am
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Sympathies about getting clamped, i dont care if your a PSV driver or a devil worshipper! clamping cars is not right, not fair and makes my blood boil.

I do think you should have removed the clamp yourself though make them pay rather than you you.

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#12 14-03-2009 12:41am
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stealthyspeeder wrote: »

clamping cars is not right.

But illegally parking is?

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#13 14-03-2009 12:43am
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neuromancer wrote: »

maybe if it was enforced properly and you knew that you would get clamped.

Well now you know
They had to start somewhere and it starts with you. A "professional" driver so of course we expect high standards, can you live up to them?

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#14 14-03-2009 12:45am
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Never understood clamping.

You park illegally, and are causing hassle to others, so they clamp your car, meaning that the hassle and annoyane continues for other drivers for longer than it would have originally.

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#15 14-03-2009 12:46am
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Never understood clamping.

You park illegally, and are causing hassle to others, so they clamp your car, meaning that the hassle and annoyane continues for other drivers for longer than it would have originally.

How many people would pay a ticket not left by a member of the Gardai?

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#16 14-03-2009 12:47am
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Never understood clamping.

You park illegally, and are causing hassle to others, so they clamp your car, meaning that the hassle and annoyane continues for other drivers for longer than it would have originally.

You can clamp 10 cars in a few minutes.
Tow trucks are limited so you may only get a few cars a day with a tow truck.

Plus it's easier for a person to pay a clamp release fee then travel to a depot and pay a fee and possibly a storage fee to get their car from a pound.

You park illegaly then you deserve no sympathy

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#17 14-03-2009 12:50am
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neuromancer wrote: »

I wouldn't mind but...
...I was actually on a worn away to nothing yellow box.

Yellow boxes are generally painted on junctions and similar areas where it's not a good idea to stop temporarily while in traffic, never mind actually stopping and leaving the vehicle.

So, what you're saying is, you left your car on a yellow box for long enough for a clamper van to pull up behind you, get out, get the clamp, photograph your car and then clamp it, and you want sympathy?

Hmmmm...

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#18 14-03-2009 12:55am
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the best thing you can do is buy a cordless angle grinder i carry one at all times for private parking areas , being clamped loads of times never paid , they cant take you to to court either , only dublin corpo well i woulent cut one of them off u might end up in the joy !

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#19 14-03-2009 12:56am
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mikemac wrote: »

You can clamp 10 cars in a few minutes.
Tow trucks are limited so you may only get a few cars a day with a tow truck.

Plus it's easier for a person to pay a clamp release fee then travel to a depot and pay a fee and possibly a storage fee to get their car from a pound.

You park illegaly then you deserve no sympathy

Oh, it's definitely more efficient when it comes to squeezing the money out of people, but as a practical solution, it's not the greatest, is it?

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#20 14-03-2009 1:31am
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AudiChris wrote: »

Yellow boxes are generally painted on junctions and similar areas where it's not a good idea to stop temporarily while in traffic, never mind actually stopping and leaving the vehicle.

So, what you're saying is, you left your car on a yellow box for long enough for a clamper van to pull up behind you, get out, get the clamp, photograph your car and then clamp it, and you want sympathy?

Hmmmm...

The yellow box was not on a main road and their wasn't room for another car to pull up behind me.

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#21 14-03-2009 2:58am
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Traditional wrote: »

the best thing you can do is buy a cordless angle grinder i carry one at all times for private parking areas , being clamped loads of times never paid , they cant take you to to court either , only dublin corpo well i woulent cut one of them off u might end up in the joy !

So you pretty much do whatever you want and to hell with all other road and path users then?

OP, you illegally parked, you got caught, live with it. In Dublin city centre if your on yellow lines / box or whatever your towed to a pay and display spot and then clamped so overall you didnt do too bad considering you were back to work as soon as you paid but it takes more time to clamp a vehicle than it does to 'run in and collect a fare'. Been clamped twice myself for letting the meter run out, thats life.

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#22 14-03-2009 3:19am
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Eru wrote: »

So you pretty much do whatever you want and to hell with all other road and path users then?

OP, you illegally parked, you got caught, live with it. In Dublin city centre if your on yellow lines / box or whatever your towed to a pay and display spot and then clamped so overall you didnt do too bad considering you were back to work as soon as you paid but it takes more time to clamp a vehicle than it does to 'run in and collect a fare'. Been clamped twice myself for letting the meter run out, thats life.

Hey hey hey, he's a PSV driver, don't you know who he is??? :mad::D;):rolleyes:o:p

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#23 14-03-2009 3:26am
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lower your car.

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#24 14-03-2009 3:34am
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Seriously....are we discussing this.....Yellow Box.....unlawful parking......clamping....complaint....PSV driver or not....law is law, whether you agree with it or not.

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#25 14-03-2009 7:45am
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Yellow box was not a yellow box anymore, just an outline.

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#26 14-03-2009 8:06am
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meh its over and done with now. Wouldnt worry bout it.

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#27 14-03-2009 10:20am
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I'd be p*ssed off too if i got clamped. Even if i was totally in the wrong and parked illegally. But i wouldn't be on a public forum looking for sympathy. .. You poor thing though.

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#28 14-03-2009 11:36am
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Stekelly wrote: »

But illegally parking is?

No its not and I didnt say it was, but that does not make clamping cars right. This is why I said clamping is not right

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#29 14-03-2009 11:42am
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stealthyspeeder wrote: »

No its not and I didnt say it was, but that does not make clamping cars right. This is why I said clamping is not right

So whats the solution? You go ahead and park whereever suites, they come along, shrug and walk off? Your car is parked illegally but who cares.

If thats the case everytime I want to go shopping in town (Dublin) I'll just chuck my car up on the central median on O'Connell street and **** whoever doesnt like it, as long as it's handy for me. Sure I'm only running into the shop for a minute:rolleyes:.

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neuromancer wrote: »

Yellow box was not a yellow box anymore, just an outline.

The reason for it being there hasn't disappeared.

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#31 14-03-2009 2:07pm
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neuromancer wrote: »

Yellow box was not a yellow box anymore, just an outline.

So you (the so called professional driver with the PSV licence) need lines on the road to tell how to drive/park correctly? I've heard enough!

This Thread should end now!

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