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Clampers go for the easiest prey
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WHEEL CLAMPING contractors are discriminating against British truck drivers because they are easier to extract lines from, according to the RAC Foundation.
The motoring research organisation. which is monitoring the spread of wheel clamping, says contractors who operate on private land go for the easiest targets.
Kevin Delaney,the foundation's head of traffic and road safety, explains: "As far as the contractor is concerned, when doing clamping off the road they are largely profit orientated so there is no point inputting a clamp on foreign lorries."
Cornish truck driver Jeff Quick contacted CM last week after watching a contractor in action at Roadchef's Clackett Lane services on the M25.
He says four trucks were parked in a line there but it was only the UK-registered vehicle, belonging to Armstrong Distribution Serv ices of Wiltshire, which was clamped.
"It's a well-known fact that they [foreign truckers] won't pay and just end up taking up space," says Quick. "I personally think wheel clamping companies won't clamp them because they can't get money out of them."
However Grahame Rose, head of development for CP Plus,which manages parking for Roadchef, suggests that the foreign trucks next to Armstrong's might already have paid for their parking. We treat everybody the same:he says. "We recognise the problem of illegal parking by foreign hauliers and we are doing everything we can to stop it.
"We will ensure the driver phones up his head office or whoever they're working for and gets them to pay up by credit card."
He adds that if money is owed by a foreign operator CP Plus employs a subcontractor to chase the outstanding fine.