Clamped Learner Car
I posted a few weeks ago about the wheel clamping problem which has started near the Colwick Test Centre. The situation is quite confusing as far as motives and honesty go.
You see, City Estates wrote to the DSA to advise them that the “landlord” of the industrial park had introduced wheel clamping for “health & safety reasons”. When you then look up City Estates’ website, you realise that the “landlord” is… City Estates. They glibly refer to “parking laws” – which is gobbledegook, since this is a private estate with private and misleading rules of its own.
Anyway, the owner of the clamped car in the picture has contacted me. He says:
…The car you have the picture of was mine. It cost me £140.00 to get the F****** thing off…
…I was showing a client the test centre when I got clamped. I had even made sure that we arrived 10 mins after test time to give anyone doing bay park on test the time to leave the area. The van that was carrying the clamps was a builders van he even had ladders on the roof. When I first saw the van my first impression was he was fly-tipping. He told me that the owners of the industrial estate were employing the company. And that the clamping stopped at the target cafe. BUT I have noticed in the last few days that the clamping signs now extend further down the road.
The signs are black and white that I could produce on my computer.
Most are also above eye level or missing.
It’s worth pointing out that in the last couple of weeks I have seen overseas lorries parking overnight in many of the usual places (curtains drawn, etc.). Not a sign of a clamper.
And the “landlords” don’t seem too eager to do anything about the idiots who work down the far end near the gravel pit and go flying up and down that road at 70mph plus (two weeks ago, some dickheads in a grey uber-pratmobile – a Subaru or Mitsubishi – were using it as a drag strip and they were easily doing 90mph).
Is it double standards? Are they just targeting driving school cars? It makes you wonder, doesn’t it?