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damper swoops on Loo-break low-loader
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Cy Chris Tindall AN OWNER-DRIVER has blasted the actions of dampers at Lymm services after a heavy haulage vehicle was targeted only after the driver had left his cab and entered the service station.
Norman Stothard says he witnessed the damper watching from his van until the driver of the Bennetts' 70ft low-loader had parked in a coach bay, in the truck park, due to lack of room and walked 50 feet to the toilets before swooping on the vehicle. When the driver returned, Stothard and another witness confronted the damper: "He admitted it," says Stothard. was livid and it wasn't even my truck that was clamped. He was only stopping for a leak. Because of the size of the vehicle, there was nowhere else for him to park."
Unfair action
A spokesman for Wilmslow, Cheshirebased Bennetts confirms that one of their vehicles was clamped and says the matter may be taken further.
However, a spokesman for Moto Hospitality, which runs the M6 services, agrees that the vehicle was 'clamped unfairly". He adds: "Although the dampers do not work directly for Moto Hospitality, we would expect everybody who acts on our behalf, as an agent or a representative, to conduct themselves in a manner which reflects favourably on our business. We will be speaking to Parking Eye — the company that manages all parking at Lymm and by whom the dampers are subcontracted — to ensure there will be no repetition of this incident."