Melville

Get paid from Uhaul, but kudo's to you for helping a vet. At lest you made the effort to make sure he had a place to lay his head. It means more than a simple thank you for your service, to take time out of your day to help a vet. Thank you

There will always be the ones that will undercut and you are right there seems to be an infinite supply of them, but there seems to be a new trend that tries to pretend they are a local provider when actually they are in other states or countries.

EXACTLY RIGHT !!

I tried to look into these companies and meet dead end, I assume they are middlemen and/ or are dummy companies.

Is anyone else experiencing a flood of towing companies when you google search "towing near me" ? I am in a small town in Ohio, and I know all the players in my county, most on a first name basis. But when I do this search I am getting ads/listings for "Buds Towing or Howards Towing or Premier, whose addresses are either non existent or at an apartment complex, but no wreckers or rollbacks around ( or seen, small town) Their phone numbers may or may not be local and are indeed answered and dispatchers try to separate the customer from the credit card. If the reviews are to be believed, sometimes the service is provided, but long arrivals and large charges are the complaints. Is this the next step in internet 3rd party towing, remote call center gets paid then tries to local tower to do call at lowest price and if unsuccessful just ignores customer.

I can attest to 17 names of tow operators in 2023. Probably more that were not reported or counted but even at 17, that is too many. NTSB #s of 23, make towers a 75% of that number. Surely their numbers must be off.

The 1 in 6 stats was for 2018, 2019 or 2020 I think either way it was when someone finally took notice.I am just glad to see the number going down, I will be happy when it is zero.

Well I stand corrected, if the least you have sold a running car for is $1200 ( for a rotted out quarter million mile dodge) then you missed your calling, you should be a used car salesman. you headlined this post "seeking advice" i expressed my opinion/advice, I gave it even though it seems you dont really need it, your mind is made up, and rightfully so...if you are satisfied with your business model then good for you, take on the apartment complexes ppi towing there is money to be made in it.

it works for you then thats great. If you have figured out how to make money off abandoned vehicles then you have done what most towers cannot. Abandoned vehicles take up time, space, resources and finances. It does cost to tow them, unless your or your employee work for free. It does cost you to store them, unless you don't pay property tax, lot insurance, or maintenance on the property . It does costs you to gain title, unless you have cracked the code to getting people to willfully and prudently give up title. It does cost to dispose of them, unless you relish the experience of towing the vehicle(again) to the scrap yard. After all that, the few you can resale (avg $1200 as you state) it still costs to make keys, unless again the keys are lucky enough to be there. and the time and energy and parts to get them clean, running well and advertised and dealing with buyers should also be taken into consideration. PPIs and Abandoned vehicle are not worth the hassle, in my opinion.

I used to do PPI towing and patrolled properties, but ,as you said the rates for such work are not worth it, add to that the requirements you must meet according to the ordinance and the penalties (financial) for not meeting or allegedly not meeting I opted out. add to that ,as you state, towing abandoned vehicles at your cost and storing them 60+ days at no cost it just doesn't make sense to me.

1.Caller should not have identified race with police unless asked by police specifically , had no bearing on issue at hand. Not racist in my opinion, but not necessary 2. Dispatcher ( I presume) should not enter in defensive conversation ie " i have many black friends..." this just continues down that course and sounds defensive 3. Customer is upset about fees, this does happen, sounds like the tow company is charging fee for missed appointment as well as current one, not extrordinary in itself, even though she (mom) admits to making appointment . Proof of ownership cannot be determined via phone so one must "believe" them when they say so. BUT,maybe dropping one of the appointment fees ( even though it is justified) may de escalate the problem. 4. Dispatcher does and should listen to the customers story ,it allows him to vent, after , as he does in video, explain policy and fees, and if customer is still adamant, let the police explain their options.

looks a little like a Ashton...

Still here....

Best way to get a front wheel drive car pulled forward in a space out and to the truck. Properly lubed and taken care of they will last quite awhile

Been using Collins for over 35 years, wore out a couple, but there is no better.