Truck Driver Verbalized: No Law Prohibits Parking on a Bus Stop

The driver who intends to inform management, this Tuesday, June 5, cries of injustice. So he calls for more flexibility on the part of police authorities.

Saturday, between 12:30 and 1:00 p.m., RA, a driver of a utility company has parked his truck on the porch of a shop next to the Savoy cinema, in Vacoas. While his men were conducting delivery, the driver is caught in violation. The police officer who accused him of verbalizes his vehicle parked at a bus stop.

The driver will have much can be done to explain that it is not allowed to park further away, because a double yellow line marks the route. Moreover, to avoid being mugged and robbed of her recipe, the driver has no choice but this temporary inconvenience. The agent of the order will not listen. He gave her an appointment in court.

"I know I have committed an offense but the police should be more flexible. We employees, we are forced to make delivery and collect large sums of money. We can not pull well off the trade of our client. It's a risk not to be taken by these days, "says the driver verbalized.

Requested on this case, the inspector Mattur gives its support to the driver. According to the head of the Road Safety Unit, the police should have shown understandable in a situation like this. Especially if it is to deliver products and refrigerated for a large transaction of money. "There is the law and spirit of the law. There is no law that prohibits a driver to park a bus stop. This is not the fault of the driver. Rather, it is the department that this ruling improperly installed on the porch of this shop, "says Inspector Mattur. The driver can hope to cope with it.