Taxi Driver Online

Suspect others on here know about this, but it isn't explained here - the system records the first entry and last exit, so thinks you've been there for hours rather than coming and going? Or it records him as returning too quickly when returns can only be made over a specified time limit?

Seem to remember a similar one on here with a ranking car caught out by rail station cameras.


Taxi driver fined by Aldi Parking Eye for 'six-hour stay' when he was collecting fares

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north- ... d-17583789

Hugh Jones made several trips to and from the supermarket in Rhyl but was issued with a £70 penalty notice


Image: Ian Cooper/North Wales Live

A taxi driver who made several trips to a supermarket to pick up and drop off fares was stung with a £70 fine for a six-hour stay he never had.

Hugh Jones went to the Aldi store at Marina Quay in Rhyl - twice to pick up customers and once to pop in for something to eat on his break.

But he was issued with a penalty notice claiming he'd stayed for five hours and 55 minutes, despite carrying out nine other taxi runs in that time.

Hugh's booking log, which has been seen by North Wales Live, lists the 15 jobs he did during his shift that day.

The 64-year-old from Rhyl , who works for Busy Bee Taxis has sent the log off to ParkingEye as proof in his appeal against the fine.

But he raised concerns that the cameras could be faulty or not married up with another exit from the site.

He also fears that other customers, who may also be incorrectly given fines, won't be able to prove that they hadn't parked there for longer than the two-hour time limit.

Hugh, a taxi driver of 21 years, said: "I was working on January 4 and was called to a fare at Aldi in the morning and then again at 2.55pm.

"After picking up the 3pm fare, I went on to do nine other jobs before going back to the store to grab something to eat at around 9pm.

"I was shocked when I got a £70 fine from ParkingEye saying I'd been there for six hours.

"The final insult was when the letter stated I could only appeal in English."

He added: "I think it's disgusting.

"There is clearly an issue with their cameras if one of them hadn't picked my car up leaving shortly after 3pm.

"How many more people has this happened to and how can they prove it if they weren't parked there for longer than two hours?

"I'm lucky that I work for a company that keeps a log of my fares but it was a hassle for my boss to gather the information for me to appeal the fine.

"But it's not the first time he's had to do this for drivers who have gone to Marina Quay so I'm boycotting that retail park from now on.

"It's not worth the hassle."


Image: Ian Cooper/North Wales Live

A ParkingEye spokesperson said: “In this case the motorist used our BPA (British Parking Association) audited appeals process.

"This is available to anyone who believes they have mitigating circumstances.

"This process will be followed and once a decision has been made, the motorist will be notified of the outcome.”

Funny, he seems to be speaking English well enough on the video on the website

Maybe he's Welsh equivalent of some of our Scottish nationalists, who take offence at that kind of thing

In fact he sounds slightly Scouse to me, and I don't suppose Rhyl is that far from Merseyside?

Maybe some of the members on here from that neck of the woods could shed some light...

Happens all the time.

If you regularly go into one of these scam zones, often it fails to register you leaving. Sometimes the car in front of you, or behind you, obscures the camera. Thus it still thinks you are there, and then logs you when you go back later for another punter.

I've known drivers actually pay. Can you believe their stupidity?

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I had one a couple of years ago he lives off a street which is off a dual carraigeway opposite morrisons in Peterborough . He popped to the supermarket in the morning before coming in and doing his shift

The quickest way home at night is to do a u turn in the entrance to morrisons as there is no right turn into the street but there is access from the Morrisons exit (traffic light controlled)

We successfully appealed but they issued a penalty notice for being in morrisons car park for 18 hours

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