A Shop Is Charging This Guy $48,000 For Towing His Old Jeep

truck yeah ^ | 10/27/15 7:18pm | Andrew P Collins

[Cowman]

Given the photo at the link, I could have probably gotten that thing out with a 4X4 wrecker and a couple snatch blocks in less than an hour.

It seems clear that something hinky is going on here either with the tow company or the police Or the shop just really needed a Jeep Cherokee for parts

[wastedyears]

All you needed to know is the company is the go-to for police. You absolutely know they’re taking a large cut of the cost for that.

[ronnietherocket3]

But this “dangerous conditions liability” line might be the most ridiculous. Proximity to powerlines does not make conditions dangerous.

If you listen to the safety nannies, breathing is dangerous because a tornado could suck the wind out of you.

[Don W]

I’m thinking there could be a wee bit of collusion and kickback going on between two of the parties in this story.

Just maybe. I’ve been stuck worse and gotten out with the help of a Suzuki Samurai, a rope and a come-along. We were back killing snail-darters in three hours.

[loungitude]

Hi, East Coast!
I can tell you where to go, but I don’t have to!

[Chode]

plat stooopid games, win stooopid prizes...

[bakeneko]

Patrol Cops get fired or jail time for calling a tow driver pal to the scene of accidents.

But I guess its okay if the Mayor and Chief do it and get their cut.

[AlmaKing]

I get the trespassing charge. I had acreage in New Hampshire with a powerline road on it. I wasn’t too happy about people driving on it now and then, thinking it was an old public road.

[Fai Mao]

[I get the trespassing charge. I had acreage in New Hampshire with a powerline road on it. I wasn’t too happy about people driving on it now and then,]

Better than mountain bikers cutting fences to get to trails on a cattle ranch. I used to work on a ranch that had that problem.

[arl295]

Tow companies are always skeevy to say the least. When Sandy hit, I remember a tow company got the job to tow vehicles that were legally parked off the streets and the company was bilking people $1,500 per car. They even went into private driveways and towed those cars as well. Doing whatever they could to get a bigger pay day.

[Louis Foxwell]

Yeah, friend of mine.

[1rudeboy]

This thread needs music.

[arl295]

I had a trespasser today who claimed he was a mechanic and was road testing a vehicle for a client, he was off roading in a Smart car, on my private acreage. He had to been on some sort of drugs.....

If I wasn’t so busy today and had the backhoe out, I really wanted to see how flat I could have gotten his “car” to be...

[wastedyears]

When Sandy hit, I remember a tow company got the job to tow vehicles that were legally parked off the streets and the company was bilking people $1,500 per car. They even went into private driveways and towed those cars as well. Doing whatever they could to get a bigger pay day.

I won't even ask why they did that. Did you find out under whose authority they did that?

[Autonomous User]

http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/30354823/photos-ma-tow-association-says-48000-tow-bill-in-excess

[Cowman]

I drove a hook while I was in school and learned quite a lot about how things are done in MA. I got the call to come down to one of the many dirt roads in our area for a police recovery. The dispatcher told me the police were doing their accident investigation so I’d need to wait a little while until they were done but the shop owner, who was a retired cop himself, wanted everybody on scene ASAP. I spent four hours of overtime in the truck watching the boys in blue run surveyor’s wheels.

I found out later that the town was charged double overtime for three tow trucks and a flatbed, Hazard pay because it was snowing a little, and storage for the two cars that I could have had in the pen by myself in about 45 minutes.

The shop cleared about six grand and we drivers each got an extra hundred bucks for the overtime.

[Moonman62]

Assured Collision billed him $16,000 for an on-scene supervisor at $1,250 an hour. He is being charged more than $10,000 for an off-road recovery incident response unit. There is also a $5,000 fee for dangerous condition liability insurance. All the equipment and manpower totaled $48,835 for the 12 hour job.

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That right there folks is a company that makes the right political contributions.

[GilesB]

I once lived in San Francisco during Diane F’s mayorship. I spoke to a tow company owner. He told me he had bid on the city tow business. In the contract was the requirement to base their operations from a specific parking garage. He inspected the garage for such use, and told me it was unsuitable and unsafe. He tried to get a variance for that requirement and was strongly denied.

The owner of said garage???? Dear Diane’s husband!

Collusion and kickback? Anytime a government has such a relationship with any private business, you can count on c&k.

[Theodore R.]

So how much is the vehicle worth?

[TigersEye]

I could have gotten that out with a comealong and a couple of bottle jacks.