Do you take your work truck home and park it in your
driveway or on the street nearby? If you live in an HOA you may want to rethink
that. You just might be subjected to fines or more. It is not uncommon for vocational vehicles to
be ticketed in residential areas governed by a homeowner association (HOA). A
company may have unknowingly put its employees in this difficult situation when
they issue out a logo branded or wrapped vehicle.
With communities consistently growing, there is an estimate
of 50 million Americans that live in HOA communities. Most HOAs will allow
commercial vehicles as long as they are out of site in a garage, but not all
fleet vehicles can fit due to height or length. Also, if the employee lives in
an apartment, townhouse or condominium development that option may not even exist.
Employees are then at the mercy of their HOA parking restrictions and there is
no uniformity to these rules.
Long story short, legally, HOAs have the authority to
control the type of vehicles allowed to park in their communities. Thus creating
a problem for those residents whose primary transportation is a company issued
vehicle or work truck. The common response is that these HOA conditions and
restrictions were laid out in documents before the purchase or lease of the
property or community and should have been addressed then.
Fleetwest has a solution to this situation for the pickup
work trucks; the transferable service body! Fleetwest service bodies are 100%
transferable with a no holes drilled installation and a universal fit to most
full-size pickup trucks. These service bodies can be easily removed, fully
loaded via forklift, crane or lifting jacks and left in the company garage or
warehouse. This gives the employee the ability to drive the pickup truck home
at night without the risk of HOA violation. In the morning, drive into work and
transfer their service body back into the truck bed and off they go.
