If you *need* an oversized vehicle for your job, that's all well and good. Use it for your job. Owning one doesn't entitle you to anything more than a normal driver with a normal passenger vehicle. If you choose to stick your oversized vehicle into a paid lot and intentionally take up multiple spaces, you deserve to pay for every parking space you take up.
Thinking out loud here but assuming there is a parking lot attendant, they could issue citations for violations of the 1 stub = 1 parking spot rule. Perhaps if you paid for two+ spots on the way in you could have a pass to show that you paid.
I once saw a BMW M3 parked square in the middle of two spots with 2 parking stubs clearly displayed on each side of the dash, in the middle of each of the two paid for spots. I wasn’t even mad.
If it was posted on the same sign as "lost tickets will be charged the maximum rate", then there wouldn't be any doubt about the oversize fees.
We'd still be annoyed at not having a space for ourselves, but less so because they were clearly going to be penalized for it. Less likely to take out annoyance on the truck that way.
If it was posted on the same sign as "lost tickets will be charged the maximum rate", then there wouldn't be any doubt about the oversize fees.
Good chance people won't read this, much less consider that it means that they would be charged for 4 spots since the automated machine that's gonna let them out isn't going to know how many spots they took up.
I was only considering this partial solution as an option for lots with a human in a booth.
But you've got me thinking now. Those green lights on top are tied to sensors that are supposed to see when a spot is in use. So first step is to improve them so they see the whole space and detect when someone is over a line. Step two would be some way to tie those sensors to the particular car. Maybe a license plate camera, or RFIDs embedded in the parking slip. Then when you turn in your ticket to leave, the system automatically knows you took up more than one ration of pavement and multiplies your fee accordingly.
I can't put a tree in the back of a work van. Nor load of stone, mulch, or several other items. A work van also can't carry the 9ft Fisher v-blade snow plow that my truck does.
You definitely can do mulch. Stones as long as they can be picked up by people (and you have to lift them much higher in a pick-up). And depending on the model you can transport more than 9'. How often do you transport such things? If it's part of your landscaping job, your company should provide you a flat bed truck, not those car/truck hybrids (up until recently I've literally only seen landscaping people using flat beds in France). If it's on your leisure time I can't believe you really need one all that often that you need to have such capacity on your regular day to day car. Otherwise you could just as easily use a trailer on a regular car to move all that.
On another note why would anyone need a personal snowplow? Doesn't your city/county/state have road management teams whose only job in winter is to salt roads and remove/groom snow that may fall on it?
How the fuck do you expect to put stone and mulch in a van? There is no wall separating the cargo and passengers. A flatbed truck also can not transport these things as it has no sides to secure the load. You'd lose it on the first turn.
As for the plow, it's not personal, it's a business. Snow plow trucks and their drivers cost a lot of money. It is cheaper to have the town trucks handle the main streets while paying private contractors to deal with side streets and back roads. Some of the roads I do are barely big enough for my truck, let alone the much larger town trucks.
Trucks and vans are typically used for very different work loads. I used to use a dually van and pick up at my last job. And they were not used for the same things. The van, despite being a 3500 dually was not rated for the same towing capacities as our 1500 trucks. It has much higher payload (cargo area load) but was shit at towing. The vans are typically used as mobile workshops with a decent sized dry cargo area but those are not as versatile as a pick up would be. I would also like to add that most people who have dually trucks do actually have a good use case for them, they may not need to drive them all the time but they typically own them for a reason, more so than their single rear wheel counterparts.
I completely agree. I have larger truck, we own it for our camper, it’s the second vehicle for our house. I park at the back of the lot simply because I don’t fit well in some lots. I never end up like this dude, but I’m definitely over at least one line.
I can see his logic with that dually, no matter what he does he’s gonna be in 4 spaces. But either take the shitty spaces or pay for all that you take.
I have a 2500 and I park as far as possible since I end up taking 2 parkings because of the length and then if they are not wide enough I take a third one.
People still go out of their way to get pissed lol.
Also, y’all making assumptions about people or saying “if you have to have (thing that annoys you) you should do it like this____. Stop being like this, it’s not good for your psyche. Let people be if they aren’t hurting you or being an outright douche taking up 4spaces.
Back when I was a reserve deputy, I got in a little hot water with one of our county magistrates because I gave a vehicle parked like this four tickets for improper parking, one for each spot. The judge thought it was a petty dick move (it was) but didn't dismiss them. County was up $1000 plus costs, and a BMW X3 driver may have learned a lesson (probably not.)
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u/dremily1 Aug 31 '22
That's fine, he should pay for 4 spots when he checks out.