rm9792 wrote:I have met a few tow drivers and all of them were sleezy. I hate how they think they are allowed to do 80+ on the freeway, even when crowded and 60+ on city streets to get somewhere. I block them every chance I get, they are hardly life and death vehicles. I do believe if you dont pay your bills then your vehicle should get repossessed but not like a sneak thief in the night or while you are working. Why cant they get an offduty officer to go with them and be upfront about it? Cheap companies are the only reason. Who is gonna fight a repo when there is a uniformed officer right there? Banks hire them to sit all day long then so can a repo company.
thank you very much. As the owner of a licensed, legal, wrecker service that operates under the laws of the state, you show that you don't have a clue of the guidelines wrecker services have to go by.
In our town, wreckers can't just show up at wrecks--and there is no lowest bidder. The city has a rotation list for "police dispatched" calls--AND they set the price. The state sets the minimum requirements to operate as a a wrecker service including the insurance required and the criminal background checks for drivers.
Are there bad operators out there?-Yes--are most wrecker services sleezy--NO. It's the guys with stingers stuck in the back of their trucks who think they will make a buck(HA!) who give the legitimate operations a bad name.
Just because there are a few rambos out there with guns doesn't mean that all gun owners are nutso---same analogy
