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Escrito originalmente por twballard
I saw the above posted in "no parking" zones everywhere. I assume it conveys the message that violators will be towed, but I am having trouble understanding why "Grúa" which I understand to mean "crane" and which seems to me to be more appropriate for referring to a type of construction machinery.
Is the word also routinely used to mean "towtruck" or have I completely missed the point?
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You are quite right. It is used routinely for that here in Tenerife, and they do in fact look like a crane fitted on to the back of the lorry.
They also use the word
pala =
spade or
shovel for a JCB which should be
excavadora. I suppose they only look at the bit that matters.
Edit: It is illegal to tow a vehicle in Spain, so I guess that the first gruas were indeed cranes to lift cars onto the lorry.