Do all yards charge to park trailers/lorry?

[jen1]

Have posted this on Stable Yard forum, but put on here too as more people seem to be looking at this one!!

Do all yards charge for trailer/lorry parking and how much? Friend of mine says her yard doesn't any more as they have a lawyer as a livery and she said something about it being the yard's liability if anything happened to the trailer/lorry if they are charging/making a profit out of parking, can anyone enlighten me?

 

[lilpinkdonkey4]

Nope my yard doesnt charge, but that is prob just because they are nice people!

 

[lisan]

Mine Charge £10 a month, one yard up the road charge £20 a month as the lorry's wreck the drive!

 

[robcl]

I know some that do and some that dont

 

[pocket]

I pay £2 a week for my trailer, my old yo did not charge, I think its luck of the draw....

 

[jen1]

Suppose it's more of the legal side that's interesting!! Any lawyers out there???

 

[Bossanova]

Not all do.
The yard I'm on currently is £20/month

 

[shelly018]

Used to pay £5 a week to keep it under cover, nothing if parked outside.

Now I'm at my friends yard, I don't pay anything to keep it undercover, or to use her electric when the bloody thing won't start and have to charge the battery!!!

 

[not_with_it]

I dont pay anything but im not at a livery yard as such. I'm the only livery there. At the mo its kept undercover around the back, out of sight from the road.

 

[Sneedy]

I pay about £20/month for mine. Am moving to a new yard next month and they don't charge for lorry parking there, and it'll be under cover!

 

[RLF]

i dont pay either at current yard, but old yard charged me £10 a month

 

[Taboo1968]

Previous yard was £5.00 a week and that was undercover.... yard now is £15.00 a month.....

 

[Vicki_Krystal]

mine is £5 a month, kept outside.

 

[elles]

Yards near me charge between £10-£25 per month for a trailer and between £20 and £50 per month for a lorry!! Oh the joys of Surrey!

 

[Happy2Hack]

No charge at my yard!

 

[Boxers]

No charge where I am. Trailer is outside but out of sight of any roads and behind locked gates at night.

 

[cp1980]

Some of these largish charges make me think it's worth looking for alternative arrangements, such as other yards or caravan storage companies.

 

[Cindylou]

Mine is £2.00 per wk outside for horsebox

 

[lachlanandmarcus]

Its a fair deal at our place - free to park the box

As a return we are happy that if there is a medical equine emergency we are the ones who will get dobbed in to take nag to vet college down the road (or yard owner who is also insured on it will)

 

[Ottinmeg]

mine is free and kept on the farm next door (owned by YO brothers and just an extension of the livery yard ) it is well out of site and yard is also in the middle of nowhere .

 

[mickey17]

i pay £15 pm not undercover most other yards have been free but pretty much luck of the draw!

 

[Cop-Pop]

Mine doesn't

 

[louisewatcham]

25 per quarter to keep inside the barn up the road - not supposed to keep them on the yard as not enough room.

However since discovered that some pay, some don't. It depended on whether the YO thought they could get away with it. Therefore nice people like me paid but the b****es didn't

Never spoke to them so never knew until after we left.

 

[Doublethyme]

Nope our yard doesn't and I have also heard about the liability issue with charging. A major livery yard near us who charge for everything have stopped charging for lorries because of this reason I have heard (and to be honest if that YO has it must be correct!!).

I'm no legal expert, but "I believe" that if they charge you they are offering a service (ie like a caravan parking company) and are required to be insured for this purpose. Would presume that normal yard insurance would not specifically cover this??

Lawyers anywhere please clarify!!! Then you can all print off and march to your YO's and get free parking!

 

[Halfstep]

£20 per month, and its not even covered or proper hard standing. Does my head in - money grabbing at its highest imho. Would love to know if they have to have special insurance to charge for this.

 

[ironhorse]

We don't pay, but the space is not guaranteed - at the moment our biggish lorry is squeezed in between cars and a pile of rubble!
Also not great security - I used to have nightmares when we had an Ifor trailer as so many had been stolen from the yard!

 

[K27]

Yes we are charged approx 17 pounds a month for parking our lorry. We're in Sussex.

 

[WFL]

Mine doesn't, but we already pay £98/week!