How to avoid becoming a victim of a tow truck in the city
Tips / / December 19, 2019
Vehicle recovery - a nasty little thing. Anyone who has ever experienced it knows: it is an impressive waste of time, money and nerves. But there are ways to avoid these problems.
Xenia Zagoskina
The founder of service-antievakuatora CrocoDie.
1. Follow the rules
It will help reduce the risk of evacuation observance of traffic rules. After all, not everyone noticed that the park against the rules. It is not surprising, because to find a parking place is not so easy!
In such a situation will be glad not even the most convenient and close to the site of the house. But caution is still too early to turn off: Make sure that the car hit the exact layout of the parking space. If the machine is at least a few centimeters beyond the markup, this can give rise to evacuation. Even with paid parking in the parking session.
Also, look carefully, not whether you parked on the ground for people with disabilities or on the semi-circular markings indicating the beginning and the end of the parking lot. In this case, the machine also can be easily evacuated.
2. Caution: traps
Watch for signs and markings, in order not to fall into the trap that many places that seem to be parking, are not. For example, the sign "No Stopping" does not allow to get up from the stowed position to the nearest intersection, but just for this sign may be a pocket-like parking and even marked up accordingly, but not designated by any pointers. On such a "parking lot" covered by the sign "No Stopping", so the car to evacuate, if you decide to leave it here.
Yet it may happen that you are used to leave the car in the same place, and once there put prohibitory sign. Do not be lazy once again look around, you park. Otherwise, you get a fine, and the car taken away.
3. Look where free
Another reason for the evacuation would interfere with the movement of the car. So make sure your car does not bother anyone.
It happens that the parking lot is not very spacious and the car does not fit entirely. In this case, better to look for another place, than to leave the car sticking out. And not only can stick bumper or hood, but the wheels. Some drivers specifically turn inside them to escape from the evacuation, but in fact it is a myth: evacuate both direct and with twisted wheels.
Sometimes parking drivers can forget to put wheels straight. Do not forget the risk of evacuation will be reduced.
4. Do not obstruct pedestrians
Parking in the city, especially in the courts, make sure that your car does not block pedestrians. Believe me, the tender-hearted old lady who feeds the kittens daily at the door, took the trouble to complain about the car in the traffic police, if he really will stop her go. Therefore fans occupy pavements, parking in the yard risk their cars on a daily basis.
Also remember that pedestrians can harm the car in a temper. Therefore it is better them once again not to irritate a little to spend on paid parking away from the pedestrian area.
5. Leave a phone number under glass
Having parked the car, leave a phone number where you can be contacted quickly. If the car to someone interferes, you will have more opportunities to solve the problem in human terms, without having to call the traffic police and tow trucks. Or install the mobile applications that warn about running nearby tow truck. So you will avoid unpleasant consequences associated with the evacuation.
As you can see, deal with the problem of parking in the city is quite real effortless. Suffice it to observe the rules, carefully look around and every time before you leave the car, make sure that your actions are no violations.