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  1. Thank you to Suburban Towing of Louisville for doing such a fantastic job on the recovery. The eyes of the world were watching and you guys performed fast, efficiently and effectively, which makes our entire industry look better to the outside world. Doing things the "Cowboy" way makes for better TV (drama like Highway Through Hell and similar shows) but should that recovery have gone wrong it would have made us all look a little foolish.
  2. Here is the driver rescue https://www.wdrb.com/news/rescue-crews-pull-driver-from-semitruck-hanging-over-ohio-river-after-collision-on-the-2nd/article_987067c8-d7ef-11ee-91cd-972f857a9a43.html
  3. You can watch it live Live Cam It looks like a pretty tough recovery to say the least. or watch it here too LIVE CAM Youtube live Fox 9
  4. This looks pretty accurate to me FWIW, with the following exceptions. I would move Allied up a few and Agero & Urgently down to 16th or worse next to Honk. In my area they consistently call us with ridiculous offers (usually about 25% of our normal rates). $39.00 for a service or tow 30 miles away.
  5. Look for older class A RV's. Here in the mid-west they are everywhere. The Chevy's had 454's in them and you can usually pick one up for cheap. Bonus- many of them are low mileage too.
  6. I am having trouble hiring staff and the Mrs is getting overwhelmed with answering the phone 24-7 without any sleep for weeks on end so I wondered if anyone is using a "service" to supplement their own in house dispatching. I see Holly's Dispatch Service advertised and spoken with them on the phone. they seemed nice and trustworthy but frankly, 'Turning the keys to the castle' over to someone you don't really know seems overwhelming. Please speak of your own experiences; good and bad.
  7. We got a call last month to winch out a u-haul truck and the dispatch company was adamant with my dispatcher that our driver must not reveal the amount of the tow we were charging as they were a 3rd party and marked up our bill a small percentage to cover their own expenses. We've seen this before but had no idea to the degree this had gotten. Our driver performed the service and had the customer sign the invoice that showed no pricing on it when the customer gave him some attitude about highway robbery and he should be ashamed of what we charge. Knowing our prices are not out of line with industry standards, my driver asked him to explain to which he popped his bank account open on his phone and showed him a $400 charge from the same day to a company called "Roadside". They then attempted to get the driver to spill the beans on what we charge and my driver kept his composure stating the computer handles all the charges an he cannot access them unless he is collecting them. We were happy to do the service for our stated amount but we feel pretty upset knowing they are marking up out charges 400% to cover their expenses. Made us feel icky to be involved with them.
  8. We did this on our own every New Years Eve for more than 20 years and only had a handful of drivers ever take advantage of it. We got a lot of local publicity from it but we never knew about AAA doing this; we have been AAA providers for 8 years now.
  9. Item #1 $150 Item #8 $250 Item #10 $20 Item # 11 $20 Thanks for helping this family out, such a great cause.
  10. Nice job Ron! You could have used our winch-box on that one and saved dragging out all that rigging.
  11. Some prosecutors offices have a victim compensation fund to take care of those type of things, but only if you were a victim. If you were the suspect of the crime you are likely on your own. Frankly after 9 months you probably don't own your car anymore the impound lot or state does/did.
  12. Just what the world needs right is some ass hat harassing a business owner and the police to make a "funny" video and post it on the internet. I wonder how cute he would have felt if the police locked him up in the pysch ward for 48 hours of observation since he has a mental issue thinking he in a non-human inanimate object such as a tripod.
  13. I believe the truck part of the remote is energized with the pto switch but the remote has to be turned on (and paired) by pushing the power (green) button on the remote itself.
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