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Wheel Clamping

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Wheel Clamping in Perth

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Perth Security Services offers an effective vehicle wheel clamping services in Perth for the management of private parking areas, buildings, apartments, strata complexes etc.  If your car bay areas suffer from continual illegal parking by vehicles, then wheel clamping offers a powerful way of discouraging illegal car bay occupancy in the future.

This strategy has proven to be an effective deterrent to opportunistic car park bay occupiers. Some people ignore parking tickets and do not pay them and so will continue to keep occupying your car bays until you create a more effective deterrent to prevent them parking there.

Wheel clamping is legal and will not damage the offenders car. It may however damage their ego and make them regret their actions which is the point of such a wheel clamping deterrent. Wheel clamping comes with powerful car park signage that offers a confronting warning as to the consequences of taking the risk of illegally parking in one of your car bays.

Wheel clamping is more effective as the person suffers immediately as they cannot drive their vehicle away, and they are forced to follow our procedures and pay the heavy fine to have their vehicle clamp released.  The offender is inconvenienced, they lose time while they wait for the wheel clamping to be undone, and they must pay the fine upfront to redeem their car.

We have developed a very client friendly wheel clamping system that has proven to be effective and allows you as the client to be relieved of the headaches of trying to enforce illegal or unauthorised parking. You will not suffer repeat offenders when you adopt a wheel clamping solution in Perth from Perth Security Services contact us now.

Clamping Laws In WA

As mentioned above, the practice known as clamping is legal. In Western Australia there was a Code of Conduct written in 2007 for Wheel Clamping Businesses’. It states that:

“Wheel clamping or clamp means the immobilising of a motor vehicle by attaching a clamp or other device to a wheel to restrict its movement.”

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When Vehicles May be Wheel Clamped

All the following conditions must be met before vehicles may be wheel clamped:

  • The company requests the contract or to undertake the wheel clamp. 
  • The vehicle is parked on land on which it is not authorised to park, or is not parked in accordance with the conditions relating to the use of the car park.
  • Signs conforming to this Code of Practice have been erected.
  • The vehicle is recorded as having previously breached conditions of use and its owner issued with a parking breach notice by the company. This condition need not apply if use of the parking area is restricted to visitors  and occupiers of the premises and their employees and conditions of parking are clearly signed.
  •  The wheel clamp shall be attached to a wheel on the driver’s side of the vehicle.
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When Clamping Practices Shouldn’t Be Applied

A vehicle shall not be wheel clamped where any of the following applies:

  • The vehicle is parked in accordance with the car park conditions of use but has overstayed the paid for time by less than 20 minutes.
  • An emergency vehicle being used for official purposes, eg. fire, police, or ambulance,
  • The vehicle has had a clamp removed less than two hours previously and which remains in the same position.
  • The driver is present with the engine running (for up to 15 minutes only).
  • The vehicle is parked where warning signs are not displayed in accordance with this Code Of Practice.