East Suffolk to bring in motorhome parking (charged) in council owned carparks

[Thistle]

A quick read, and you soon realise councils are in a strange situation with 'van' parking.
For example take a L3H2 Ducato panel van, this very popular vehicle could be a 'light commercial vehicle', a 'heavy commercial vehicle', a 'van with windows', a 'motor caravan', a 'minibus', or an 'emergency vehicle'. So what is the same basic vehicle is treated differently depending on a couple of words in the logbook.

Unfortunately that is incorrect there are two fields on the V5, the taxation class and body type that are not provided by the DVLA to Anpr or other registration recognition systems such as keypad entry. The DVLA claim this is personal info so is excluded by GDPR rules.

Those two fields never appear anywhere even when doing a paid for HPI check.

It’s absolutely stupid the info isn’t available and as an aside is the reason thousands of people get away annually by committing VED evasion in ex service vehicles such as ex Ambulances

The only info available to car park system that could be relevant is the vehicles revenue weight because many car parks exclude vans over 3500kg under their T&Cs

 

[trevskoda]

This highlights the grey area we are in with our demountable motorhome. The MH unit has everything you expect, all fixed, sleeping, cooking, toilet etc all rigidly fixed and plumbed in. BUT the whole thing can be detached from the truck. So one day it is a motorhome, the next day it is a plain ordinary pickup truck.

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Its always what is in the log book nomater whats on or of its back.

 

[colinm]

Unfortunately that is incorrect there are two fields on the V5, the taxation class and body type that are not provided by the DVLA to Anpr or other registration recognition systems such as keypad entry. The DVLA claim this is personal info so is excluded by GDPR rules.

Those two fields never appear anywhere even when doing a paid for HPI check.

It’s absolutely stupid the info isn’t available and as an aside is the reason thousands of people get away annually by committing VED evasion in ex service vehicles such as ex Ambulances

The only info available to car park system that could be relevant is the vehicles revenue weight because many car parks exclude vans over 3500kg under their T&Cs

That's not what I was alluding to.
My point was the council treats what is essentially the same vehicle differently depending on how it is registered, that might not show up on ANPR, but a traffic warden seeing several Ducato L3H2 vans parked in some of the carparks will issue a PCN to the Motor Caravan and the minibus, but not the plain white van.