Sunday, October 12, 2008
MMDA Executive Director Angelito Vergel de Dios has announced that they will penalize towing agencies who are found to violate their Guidelines for Towing and Impounding. According to this short article from GMANews.TV, de Dios issued the warning after learning of complaints that certain agencies were not following established procedures and have harassed drivers. Unfortunately, no details were provided on how motorists can report abuses to them.
After all this time, he only found out about this now?! Medyo out of touch 'ata s'ya. Either that or the information reaching has already been filtered by those who have interests in this line of business.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Saw this MMDA mini-truck with a flat tire just after the corner of Pioneer on northbound EDSA late afternoon yesterday.
There was an MMDA tow truck there, but it seems they weren't there to tow the truck away.
If it was a regular car, I'm sure the MMDA tow truck would already have attached their watchamacalit and towed it away.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
After witnessing the towing of a car in front of Starbucks Leviste, I decided to search for any guidelines on towing in Makati (see my post here).
Anyway, found MMDA's guidelines on their site. Item 7.3 under the section discussing procedures clearly states "If the vehicle is unattended, the tow truck driver shall blow the truck's horn five (5) times twice in a row with a space of one minute in between. If the owner does not respond, the vehicle will be towed." Which means that these guys didn't follow procedure.
Not sure though if these rules are valid in Makati, though. Alam mo naman doon, iba sila.
Anyway, to see the full details of MMDA's towing guidelines, click this link.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Had a meeting this afternoon at Starbucks in Leviste, and I witnessed a car getting towed. Man, ang bilis! I think the whole thing lasted under 3 minutes, from the time they arrived to the time they pulled out with the car.
Anyway, aren't there rules that these guys are supposed to "attempt" to look for the driver of the vehicle for a certain number of minutes before they tow the vehicle. If somebody has a link to the rules governing this, please send it to us so we can post it here.