FREE newsletter is as good as that first pint back at the pubParking firms issued one ticket every four seconds last year, costing drivers up to £840million.Companies handed out 24% more tickets in 2019/20 compared with the previous 12 months, according to the RAC – up from 6.8million to 8.4m.Parking companies are using the DVLA to track down drivers who are alleged to have flouted the rules at shopping centres, leisure facilities and motorway service areas.Motorists are then left counting the cost of a £100 ticket.Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation, said: “Anyone who received a private parking ticket last year would have been in plentiful company – yet again the number of keeper addresses released by the DVLA to private parking.
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