A truck driver had his rig towed and ended up with a $1500 bill and a lost load after parking his rig in a Walmart lot for the weekend.
The driver, Vaughan Lisbon, says the Walmart store located on Garners Ferry Road in Columbia, South Carolina had always been “truck friendly.” He says he’d been using the parking lot for the last three months with no problems.
That all changed when he returned to the lot on Monday morning after a weekend away. He says a “No Authorized Vehicles” sign was erected and his truck and trailer were missing.
Lisbon says that it cost him $1500 to pick up his rig from the impound lot. He said his belief that all Walmart parking lots were truck friendly was a costly mistake.
“Why would they do it without giving prior notice to what they were going to do?” Lisbon added. “All they needed to do was put a sticker on the vehicles letting them know not to park there anymore.”
In a response, Walmart stated that the “No Authorized Vehicles” sign had been in the parking lot for two years, and that truck parking rules are determined by individual managers and subject to parking availability and local laws.