Archive for September, 2006
Carriers Pay Hefty NYC Parking Ticket Fines: UPS paid $18.7 Million; Fed Ex $8.2 Million
September 5th, 2006 | Posted in IndustryNEW YORK — The Associated Press — On a narrow street in lower Manhattan’s financial district, Godvell Merilus pulls his UPS truck alongside a curb and parks illegally.
Like the nearby Poland Spring and FedEx drivers, Merilus doesn’t have a choice. There are no legal spaces, and he has a demanding schedule to keep, delivering hundreds of packages to corporations such as Goldman Sachs and Citibank.
Then the inevitable comes wrapped in a blaze-orange envelope: Merilus gets a $115 parking ticket, one of four he receives this day. “It’s automatic,” said Merilus, 34. “There is not a single day I don’t get a summons.”
