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Even the biggest tow-trucks must break down sometimes. How do they get recovered?
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have a look here (at lunch-time of course) - everything's bigger in the States
www.abrams.ca/services.php?pageID=Recovery
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Police can clamp in Scotland
3rd party contractors on private land cannot
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I read this yesterday, seemed a bit much when the Buchanan Galleries shopping centre car park is only a five minute walk from that street he parks in and would cost him half the price of a parking ticket to park there all day.
The only clamps I ever see in Scotland now are DVLA clamps for lapsed VED.
As I recall, the story said that the council (who took over parking after decriminalisation some years ago) were going to buy bigger tow trucks anyways. In which case, I guess he could get himself something like a Citroen C5 or C6 that can be left in its lowered setting, thus rendering it both unliftable and untowable...
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Not sure if it was in that article but he was quoted as saying that he couldn't get in the Buchanan Galleries due to the length of the vehicle which, IIRC, may well be very true!
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He does say that, yes, but Buchanan Galleries is a big, fairly generous (space-wise) modern multi-storey which is less than ten years old (which is probably why they want to demolish it to extend the shops, but that's another matter altogether!).
Anyways, there are plenty of luxury cars that *would* fit in there - whether you'd want to leave anything in there that you'd mind getting dented is another matter, but then again, there's probably less chance of it getting dented there as there is in the street he parks in, opposite a lorry loading bay!
But don't get me wrong, Glasgow City Council are becoming increasingly po-faced, moralistic, nannyish and humourless in their day-to-day operations, I'm quite amused by this chap's elephantine efforts to goad them!
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Glasgow City Council are becoming increasingly po-faced, moralistic, nannyish and humourless in their day-to-day operations
Would be interesting to know which councils are not like that :)
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good point - they are all money grabbing shysters . But you all vote for them !
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