[msaadkhan]

I received fine of $201 for leaving car in loading zone. I was picking up a Uber Eats delivery from the mall and there was no parking available.

Are Uber Eats drivers entitled to use Loading Zones ? Further, multiple cars were parked before me in loading zone.

Moreover, do loading zone fine get you demerit points ?

 

[Uber's Guber]

I received fine of $201 for leaving car in loading zone. I was picking up a Uber Eats delivery from the mall and there was no parking available.
Are Uber Eats drivers entitled to use Loading Zones ? Further, multiple cars were parked before me in loading zone.
Moreover, do loading zone fine get you demerit points ?

It's a non-moving violation, so I doubt you receive demerit points.
As far as loading zones go, you might want to dress your vehicle with some type of commercial signage, be it "Uber Eats" or whatever, then maybe you won't be hassled. Pay attention to that parking sign though, you might be required to remain at the vehicle that is being "loaded," or there might be a strict time limit posted on it. You can go to court, but all the funding that comes from parking tickets are paid to the local jurisdiction, so any greedy township is unlikely to lower the cost of the fine.
Good luck, and welcome to UP.net!

 

[BigJohn]

Was your car in a clear manner identifiable as a vehicle momentarily parked for the exclusive reason of making a pickup or delivery?

 

[BikeVancouverBC]

Check your local parking bylaws. Here in Vancouver, Canada the vehicle has to be clearly identifiable as a commercial vehicle to be entitled to use the loading zone. Being a food courier may or may not make your vehicle a commercial one where you are, and you may have to buy a commercial vehicle decal from your municipal authorities.

 

[guano]

I have a better solution... if you can't find a parking spot just cancel and move on

 

[Seamus]

I deliver in a city and have to make my own spot frequently. I use loading zones all the time. I always put on my flashers and if it’s a safe neighborhood I leave my trunk up. If it’s not a safe neighborhood I don’t put the trunk up cause some bum will either crawl in and take a nap or steal something!

Since 2017 I’ve never gotten a ticket. Flashers on and trunk up they don’t seem to care, especially outside a restaurant. Of course they’re city cops so they got bigger fish to fry.

 

[observer]

Like all things, it depends.

In California to use the yellow curbs, you are supposed to pay for commercial plates which are a little extra per year. I think, back in the day, I paid an extra 25 bux per year.

That being said it depends on the city you are in, the amount of cops, the need for revenue, the time of day, wether the sky is visible, wether the officer is having a good, wether the officer is having a bad day.

In my city, people double park all day and all night and are not given tickets. They park in yellow zones, green zone, red zones, plates expired several months, etc.

Cops don't care.

 

[diamonddrivermaster]

Like all things, it depends. In California to use the yellow curbs, you are supposed to pay for commercial plates which are a little extra per year. I think, back in the day, I paid an extra 25 bux per year. That being said it depends on the city you are in, the amount of cops, the need for revenue, the time of day, wether the sky is visible, wether the officer is having a good, wether the officer is having a bad day. In my city, people double park all day and all night and are not given tickets. They park in yellow zones, green zone, red zones, plates expired several months, etc. Cops don't care.

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[The Jax]

Are Uber Eats drivers entitled to use Loading Zones ?

I do not know how it works in your delivery city. In Philadelphia, home of the parking wars TV Show, they are no nonsense about parking. However, they seem to always be ok with parking in loading zones as long as you are not there when they come back around. I have been tickets in Philly in a loading zone, that I learned later, the sign stated it was for registed parcel trucks with a permit, or something like that. So UPS, Fed Ex, Amazon, and certain local courier companies. I made the mistake and paid for it.

Sometimes when I have a big catering delivery in the city, which is rare because I avoid it like the plague, if I can't find a loading zone, I just open the parking app and pull into a paid spot and pay the $0.50 and be done with it. Usually the catering orders pay out a good amount. I would NEVER do Uber Eats or any of the other deliver apps in the city in a car. On a bike, maybe. Parking is just too much of a hassle with these streeteries taking up all the parking spaces, which have now been banned, but not enforced.