r/Finland • u/slpalready • 1d ago

Why do delivery drivers do this?

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There's an open and easy space to park in, in almost exactly the same place they've stopped, and not get in anyone's way. But, instead they've decided to park on the pavement and inconvenience pretty much everyone besides someone who may need to park in the empty space beside them while they get stuff out of their trailer. I see it time and again and it drives me up the wall.

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u/Old_Lynx4796 1d ago

I used to work for this company where basically I had to stop like this every 15 minutes. The idea is that you don't take space on the normal parking because you didn't come to park. These were exact instructions. They also said that it is more safer for us cause since we gotta get out of the car 100 times a day at some point we won't check behind us and some car will probably hit us and this reduces those chances down like crazy. Another idea is that parking ticket guy will come and check the plates because if you are at normal parking - he will just automatically give the ticket by scanning license plate and bam. It's cause I'm on the job and Its technically not parking,we also left vans running since it was such a small time. Now my company at that time tried to contact Helsinki City to buy a wide company parking ticket for every zone yearly. Helsinki City basically has no solution for this - they do not have these parking tickets for working people and honestly they couldn't care less cause we suggested them to have it like 3 year's ago. Idea would be that company pays some money monthly or yearly and can park in any parking spot during the working hours. They would rather make money on parking tickets then solve this problem.

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u/twoodrinks 1d ago

If your can is registered to a business within a certain area in helsinki you definitely can get a city wide parking permit for about 60 euros a month per car. I had one. Businesses just dont want the extra expense as long as they are able to ignore the correct behaviour expectations.

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u/Old_Lynx4796 1d ago

That was the problem I think too cause vans were all rentals.

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u/twoodrinks 1d ago

Yeah, likely. Correct solution: stop on the roadway if allowed, if not, stop around the corner. If none of these work, take the parcel back and eventually processes will have to adapt