Daytime Coach Parking vs O Licence

[agent006]

I'll spare you the details, but curious as to whether this is something that the regustered depot on the O licence applies to or not.

Company operate school services Mon-Fri for schools in a town about an hour away from their depot. They do the morning run, then park all the coaches together in a layby just outside the town the schools are in, and drive the drivers away together in a minibus. Process is reversed in the afternoon and they presumably spend the night at the depot. Buses spend 9-3 parked up.

I'm not impacted in the slightest by the parking, but I drive past them every day on the way to work and wondered whether the TC's rules apply to this sort of thing.

[DavePanda]

O licences generally have restrictions on overnight parking away from base in residential areas but not during the day. As it's legal parking and not causing obstruction nothing would be done. Laybys are usually full of trucks or coaches on main roads anyway

[cts1975]

The operators licence states the address that the vehicles spend the majority of there time at.
Parking in bus laybys outside school is normal practice and acceptable from the TC point of view.
Some school require the coaches/buses to be off site during the day some don't.

[agent006]

Coincidentally the company in question has just had its operating licence taken away by the TC. The usual story of shoddy unsafe buses used on school routes.

[Vasco]

agent006 said:

Coincidentally the company in question has just had its operating licence taken away by the TC. The usual story of shoddy unsafe buses used on school routes.

......but, in relation to your original query, they were perfectly legal in their parking during the day.