Paid evacuation has long caused a lot of discontent from both ordinary drivers and human rights defenders. For an open confrontation, there was only a lack of a precedent, and recently it happened. For more than 20 hours, the public followed the fate of Konstantin Altukhov, who locked himself in his car, loaded onto a tow truck, and did not allow him to be taken to a parking lot. Towards the end of the epic, a huge crowd of onlookers, journalists, human rights activists and police representatives gathered around the tow truck. Employees of GKU “Administrator of the Moscow parking space” promised through the court to recover the cost of evacuation and compensation for simple transport from Altukhov. And the head of the college of legal protection for car owners Viktor Travin, who came to support a brave Muscovite, said he would help the victim file a counterclaim for compensation for moral damage.
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Konstantin Altukhov spent almost a day, but defended the car. However, a court may be waiting for him … Konstantin Altukhov spent almost a day, but defended the car. However, a court may be waiting for him … Konstantin Altukhov spent almost a day, but defended the car. However, a court may await him …
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Tricks of the tow truck
By law, transportation of a car with a person inside is prohibited, and if the car owner managed to return before his “iron horse” went to the parking lot, the vehicle must be returned. In fact, this is difficult to achieve.
The fact is that evacuators have a tacit daily rate of three to four cars, so giving the car back to the owner in time is not in their interests. In order not to do this, they use various tricks, the most common one - when the driver arrives in time, drive a little from the parking place. Then the evacuation is considered to have begun and it is impossible to interrupt it. This happened with another truth-seeker Svetozar Usachev, who continued the work of the parkman. While an employee of MADI (Moscow Road Inspection) explained to the car owner why his car was parked incorrectly, the tow truck slowly began to move. Fortunately, the driver managed to catch up with him and locked himself in the car. After three hours, the tow truck, taught by bitter experience, resigned to defeat and gave the car to the owner.
But the third fighter with the system was less fortunate - Dmitry Afanasyev, who caught up with the tow truck at the traffic lights and prevented the evacuation, was sentenced by the court to five days of arrest for his actions. Such a serious punishment should discourage drivers from fighting tow trucks. But while the city authorities are tightening measures, Muscovites are coming up with new ways to prevent evacuation. So, on the Internet they began to actively sell "anti-tow trucks" - designs in the form of a square aluminum or steel shield with a lock that lock the wheel, preventing the tow truck from grabbing it. Such a blocker costs only 4000 rubles. The electronic “anti-tow truck” - a device equipped with a motion sensor that will send you an SMS message that your car has started to move so that you arrive in time before the tow truck takes it - will cost twice as much.
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There are two ways to “fight” with evacuation: illegal (installing an “anti-tow truck”) and legal (gadget sending SMS about moving a car) There are two ways to “fight” with evacuation: illegal (installing an “anti-tow truck”) and legal (a gadget sending SMS about moving auto) There are two ways to “fight” with evacuation: illegal (installing an “anti-tow truck”) and legal (gadget sending SMS about moving a car)
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Administrative split
To understand in contentious situations, all tow trucks will be equipped with video recorders. They will exclude the possibility of tricks on the part of AMPP employees, but at the same time they will make it possible to severely punish everyone who tries to prevent the tow truck from fulfilling its mission. The State Duma Committee on Transport is now just preparing amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, envisaging enormous fines for any kind of interference - “tow trucks” and even ordinary chains with which some motorists rivet their cars to fences will fall here.
At the same time, other deputies, on the contrary, intend to fight arbitrariness under the name of “paid evacuation”. In November, the State Duma will have to consider two such bills at once. The Fair Russia party has prepared a radical project proposing to completely abolish the forced evacuation. The LDPR bill provides for the evacuation of a car only if it seriously interferes with the movement of pedestrians or vehicles. The only question now is whether United Russia will support the initiatives of lawmakers, because without its votes the laws will not pass.
