Owner of huge pick-up truck avoid paying £15-an-hour parking fee with devious trick – but not everybody is fooled
THE owner of a huge petrol-powered pick-up truck has been caught on camera avoiding a parking fee.
The truck driver was caught by a Facebook user who uploaded images of their devious trick.
As reported by TireMeetsRoad, The huge Chevrolet was seen in Alaska and the images were uploaded to the Alaska’s Worst Drivers Facebook group.
The drive of the truck is parked in an electric car charging bay, but their truck isn’t an EV.
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To fool people, the driver has popped the charging cable under the truck’s bonnet, as though it is charging.
From a distance it might fool people into thinking the truck is charging, but one eagle-eyed person clearly wasn’t fooled.
However, while in many US states you can be fined for blocking EV charging bays with combustion-engine cars, it’s not the case in Alaska.
It’s reckoned fewer than 1% of the cars in Alaska currently are EVs.
The firm behind these chargers, ChargePoint, usually charge $18 (£15) an hour for EVs that are left in the bays once they have fully charged up.
Clearly, the truck driver is avoiding this charge as well as facing no consequences for their actions by being in Alaska in the first place.
People reacted angrily to the cheeky truck driver’s antics.
One said: “Well, unsurprising it’s a 4 door truck doing it.
“He probably thought he was owning the libs.”
While another said: “Sigh, *gets out key,*”
