Stubborn66

what kind of undercoating do you use?

don't think the cab will fit that way??

We are rural as well, one of the insurance companies got a tow company from 60+ miles away to send a truck to my closest city and run calls. They had one or two trucks covering from about 8am to 8pm. When this started the company had two older trucks that I had seen, shortly after, I started to see pretty new trucks. I did a bit of snooping online and found that this company had changed it's name more than once, had horrible reviews, and was looking for help advertising making big money on commission. My calls from the company went down, naturally, for about a year, now the calls are back on the rise and I don't see those trucks as much. Seems there will be a never-ending cycle of this type of "company"

1 geico 2 allstate 3 nsd / questx 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Agero we dont take their calls even out of network anymore

That looks pretty neat, but I doubt practical. It also looks like it would be limited in capacity since the axles are all the way back. I had seen a goose neck set up like a landoll, that was interesting too. I would like to get a tilt deck trailer for the long distance runs to keep the rollbacks freed up. I just cant seem to justify the expense because I am not sure how much I would actually use it

I am thinking about a gooseneck tilt or sliding deck as well. I just cant seem to find what I am looking for. I dont do semi's so something smaller. A buddy of mine runs a Landoll at his job, it is a great trailer but it does have maintenance issues. The new one his company got had suspension bolt issues as a I recall.

As I understand it, Beacon has been bought out so that may be the difference you are seeing. We are happy with Towbook, but we do not use it to gain extra calls simply for tracking

She's a rough rider but she is always ready to work.

We got a weird one for us yesterday. Cruise America calls about 2pm and asks if I can move a class B camper for them. It was picking up locally and when she gave me the destination address, I did not recognize the town, usually I do. They want to move this thing 260 miles to western PA on the turnpike, to a rest area. One of their rentals has broken down and they want me to take them a good one. I have never worked for them before, and I didn't really want to go so I used my regular formula to bid and added an extra 20%, they didn't even flinch. I asked about the broken unit and the lady says she is getting someone else to move that. I thought it was kind of stupid, they would not be able to move that on until the people got their stuff out of it after I get there, and I will be right there. She paid me upfront with CC So, off I go. It was a brand-new Ford that broke down, and they started having issues the day before. There were 2 mid-thirties couples in the unit, and they started out in DC and were headed to California. I did get to see my first snow flurries of the years though!!!!!!

That one is yours, at least you got the title just took me three months to get paperwork on three of them

In over a year and a half now, we have not taken a single call that was dispatched OON through Tow book. The rates are ridiculously low. Agero is no longer associated with Towbook on OON calls so the levels of those annoying calls has gone down, but HONK is now doing the same thing. Fortunately, Honk is not a big as Agero so there are not as many calls. I have also read where Honk is not doing well, so hopefully they go away completely soon. My recommendation, do not buy any subscription software in an effort to gain more business. It is simply cutthroat rates and the motor clubs trying to exploit companies who need work.

I think there is a website portal to request to become a vendor.

We dont do a whole lot of Uhaul but got two this weekend. This one blew a spark plug out of the head, and was towing a car trailer. They had us take them 70 miles to the closest facility with a truck on Sunday night. Uhaul takes care of their customers when they have problems, I'll say that.

This was called in a 5 am, about an hour from the shop. They tried using a towel under the wheels, that was a new one on me.

I wouldn't go remove them just because the owner of the storage facility sent letters to the person who rented the space in any state.

Laws regarding abandoned vehicles vary from state to state. You don't mention what state you are in.

they were lucky

I took the time to watch this, all I can say is WOW, that operator makes us all look bad, and the insurance company is making their typical deny deny deny stance

still here

what is the GVW of the trailer? What is the weight of the truck? Do you have enough room at 20 feet so you can load it and center the weight over the axles?

Sounds about right, time will tell, I hope they do start enforcing the lights going down the road

Talked to two officers I know over the weekend, both said they were briefed that blue lights were now legal for us but nothing about stepping up policing it????

Well, I had a long conversation with someone from NSD. It seems as though one of the reasons they lost Avis is that cars were not getting moved and were ending up getting impounded and Avis lost some to abandonment. It appears that non-contracted providers were not doing the right thing and that was part of the problem per my conversation. The person I spoke to got upset when I said that it was partly NSD's fault this happened. Long story short: NSD is "nickel and diming" contracted providers to a point where many are dropping the contracts, which in turn is forcing NSD to go to " Out of Network" providers and use "companies" they know nothing about and have little recourse when they do not do what they are hired to do. Could NSD saved Avis if they did not go out of network to service the account????? For us, if the nickel and diming continues, we will be yet another provider who walks away from the contract.

We have mounted rear facing blue's that are on a separate switch simply because it was easier and cheaper than to have the light bar modified. We will continue to put out flares when on a busy roadway, the smoke and flame seems to get attention better than any light bar. I am sure there will be operators who run with them on, hopefully when they get that ticket they will stop running with the yellows on the all the time as well. It is amazing to me how many operators run with the lights on all the time. It is no wonder the people are desensitized to the yellow's.

Not surprising that someone would come out and try to complain about this new law, now that is has teeth. Flashing lights can be seen from far away, the problem is that no takes them seriously until they are right on top of them. you have to get a subscription to read the resource link