Can highway trailers be charged at will? Does the country have regulations on mutual management?

Guangdong high-speed towing survey: haggling price is like buying food 20 1 1 14:48 Jinyang March 30. Com- Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng Evening News After the Spring Festival this year, a 60,000 "sky-high price" towing incident broke out in the media (February 13, a large truck exported from Baiyun Airport of Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway was rescued. The reporter's investigation for several days found that there are many examples of trailer companies offering prices at will and raising the charging standards without authorization, and some of them are still cheating on the trailer mileage. On March 8, the reporter went to five highway sections in Guangdong Province and asked for trailer service on the grounds that the car broke down. It's the same car, both of which are two kilometers away. The standard of the towing fee given by the towing company is different: the lowest 240 yuan and the highest 400 yuan. Just like buying food in the vegetable market, the towing fee can be negotiated. On Fogang Road of Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, Qingyuan Xunjie Traffic Rescue Co., Ltd. charges 470 yuan, and finally charges 400 yuan; The same company charges 330 yuan at Guangqing Expressway, and finally charges 300 yuan. In addition, in the Zhongshan section of the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, the trailer company asked for 400 yuan and finally collected 300 yuan; On He Jiang Expressway, Jiangmen Road Traffic Rescue Service Center charges 380 yuan, and finally 240 yuan. When the reporter consulted the Guangdong Provincial Price Bureau, he got the answer: "The charging standard for expressways (including expressways) in the province and buses with less than 20 seats 10 km is 240 yuan. But it does not include the Guangzhou-Shenzhen and Peyo sections of Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway. Does the trailer count as mileage as soon as it gets on the highway? In addition to raising the charging standard without authorization, the trailer company also tampered with the trailer mileage. In Zengcheng section of Guanghui Expressway, the reporter's car is 9 kilometers away from the exit. Originally, only 290 yuan's towing fee was needed, but the staff of Guangzhou Dongshan Donghua Automobile Service Co., Ltd., who came to tow the car, said that 350 yuan would be charged if it exceeded 10 km. The reporter argued that the road sign showed less than 9 kilometers and finally handed it over to 290 yuan. On the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, 2 kilometers away from Fogang exit, the staff of Qingyuan Xunjie Traffic Rescue Co., Ltd., who came to the trailer, said: Not only are there several miles of trailers, but the rescue vehicles began to calculate the distance as soon as they arrived at the expressway. In this way, 2 kilometers has become more than 30 kilometers. Some truck drivers told reporters that private cars can bargain with trailer companies, but trucks that break down on highways, especially foreign cars, "kill you without consulting." "After repeated processing, the monopoly reporter found that the contact information of all trailer companies was either" 122 "or provided by the local highway traffic police. The staff of Qingyuan Xunjie Traffic Rescue Co., Ltd., who works on Guangqing Expressway, directly drives a Guangdong R9042 police trailer, saying that it belongs to the Public Security Bureau. Under the reporter's questioning, he changed his mind and said that it was only a cooperative relationship with the public security department. The staff of Jiangmen Road Traffic Rescue Service Center are also driving police cars for trailer operation. According to insiders, at present, road trailer companies are engaged in "exclusive operation" of administrative monopoly through bidding or entrustment. Wang Zechu, a counselor of the Guangdong Provincial Government, told the reporter that there is no other store in the highway trailer business except this one, which leads them to ask for prices at will and it is difficult to protect consumers' rights and interests. "Therefore, supervision must be strengthened." Zhu Yongping, director of Guangdong Datong Law Firm, also believes that monopolistic operation is the fundamental reason for the repeated prohibition of illegal highway charges. He said that in order to control this phenomenon, first, strengthen supervision, and highway management and price departments should coordinate supervision; Second, drivers should form a sense of rights protection and "boldly complain"; Third, it is necessary to increase penalties and "revoke the qualifications of one or two companies as an example"; Fourth, we can consider breaking monopoly and introducing competition. It is understood that the provincial government's office of managing the "three chaos" of highways and the provincial price bureau sent an inspector group to investigate the highway sections unannounced by reporters on the 29th, and this newspaper will continue to pay attention. (Reporter Chen Qiang, Southern TV reporter Yin, Zheng Yexu)