It's the New York City Sanitation Department's newest weapon against parking violators.

Mr. Giuliani clashed with the city's diplomatic corps again earlier this year, when he angrily accused flagrant parking violators of hiding behind their diplomatic immunity.

But for a while, the city's Department of Investigation said yesterday, there was a man who offered parking violators a ray of hope.

Not far from the lot where we tow the parking violators.

He informed a habitual parking violator that, no, there would not be a payment plan for outstanding tickets.

He said he did not expect many parking violators to seek to overturn their fines because of the court ruling.

A Matter of Revenue There is also an economic factor requiring haste in the replacement of defective signs - one that parking violators might not appreciate.

Any stranger getting off the train or regular parking violators draw his close attention.

In the pilot program, brown trucks, similar to those that haul parking violators, will tow disabled cars at no charge to the nearest highway exit or a central depot.

If it wasn't for them, the dimension would probably be overrun with street vendors and parking violators.