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IN THE NEWS
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Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way the newspapers have covered the world of transport this week.
We've recently investigated and reported overzealous clamping companies that are more than happy to charge truck drivers £250 for the release of their vehicles. Clamping is almost completely unregulated and big bucks are there for the taking, if you have enough muscle and a skin as thick as a rhino's.
CM reported that Parking Control Management was invited to target HGVs on the Lakeside industrial estate in Thurrock, but the Yorkshire Post has exposed Parking Management Service (PMS), which has taken hefty fines to a whole new level in Doncaster. The paper claims 18-year-old Josephine Bramley was forced to hand over £900 after her vehicle was clamped in what appears to be a public car park. It took PMS three weeks to let her know they had towed her car away, during which time they were happily slapping £25 onto the fine each day. It looks like it will go to court now, so what does PCM have to say? The Yorkshire Posttried to contact Parking Management Service via their mobile phone on a number of occasions but has been unable to do so," the paper reports.
Another day, another tedious report about gender differences in driving abilities. But this time it's men who have a bona fide reason for being worse drivers than women — our brains are very much like a Neanderthal's.
The Scotsman reveals that male drivers exhibit more risktaking and aggressive behaviour on the road than females because of their evolution from hunter-gatherers. This enabled our manly ancestors to run gleefully after woolly mammoths with a spring in their hairy strides. "Stone Age man did not drive," Dr Peter Marsh helpfully confirmed. But men's brains are still governed by the hunter-gatherer instinct."
So which bright spark commissioned this study? Stand up First Alternative Woman, an insurer for women set up in the light of an EU Directive on gender equality.