DVLA selling 19,000 vehicle details daily to ‘bully boy’ parking giants

Staff writer
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Penalty charge notices affixed to several cars left in restricted parking bays on a road near Gatwick Airport, as dozens of people have flown back to the airport to find difficulty being reunited with their cars after meet-and-greet parking company Gatwick First Parking apparently stopped trading.
Penalty charge notices affixed to several cars left in restricted parking bays on a road near Gatwick Airport, as dozens of people have flown back to the airport to find difficulty being reunited with their cars after meet-and-greet parking company Gatwick First Parking apparently stopped trading.

Parking firms are buying details of more than 19,000 vehicles a day from the DVLA so that they can chase unpaid fines.

MPs warned that these 'bully boy' firms were targeting motorists and called for a crackdown to protect motorists, as it emerged the trade is now at record levels.

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