Who was it that said, "The more people I meet, the more I like my dog?"
PING!
Posted on 08/25/2017 8:32:42 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
On a winter day in 2016, Curt Albert was traveling Interstate 15 in Utah on his way to Arizona. Near New Harmony, another motorist drove up beside him and signaled him to pull over.
The other motorist, according to Albert and findings by an administrative law judge, was an employee of Freeway Tire in New Harmony. He said the right rear tire on Albert’s travel trailer was wobbling. Albert agreed to follow him to the tire shop for a repair.
“I don’t want to get stranded somewhere,” Albert recently explained. “It’s 25 degrees outside, and the wind’s blowing.”
But $1,018.10 later, Albert came to believe: “It was a scam.”
The Utah Division of Consumer Protection also has questioned what happened that day. In March, it ordered Freeway Tire to pay a fine of $27,500, though the agency offered to suspend $12,500 of that amount if Freeway Tire goes three years without violating Utah’s consumer protection laws and rules.
Freeway Tire plans to challenge the fine and the conclusions reached by the Division of Consumer Protection and an administrative law judge who presided over a hearing on the matter. Jim Jensen, an attorney for Freeway Tire, said the business owner plans to appeal to state court. As of Thursday, it appeared no such appeal had been filed.
Jensen, citing the pending appeal, declined to discuss the matter further.
It’s not the first time the state has accused an auto repair business along I-15 of misleading travelers about the condition of their tires or the parts that make them spin. In 2015, it fined a company that own tires shops in Scipio and Beaver $10,000 for violating consumer protection laws and rules.
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Who was it that said, "The more people I meet, the more I like my dog?"
PING!
Ah ain’t no ways tired...
There was a towing company in New Jersey a few years ago that had the towing contract for a busy stretch of highway. The guy who owned the place was caught "generating business" by scattering shards of metal and broken ceramic bathroom fixtures along a section of the highway.
> In March, it ordered Freeway Tire to pay a fine of $27,500, though the agency offered to suspend $12,500 of that amount if Freeway Tire goes three years without violating Utah’s consumer protection laws and rules. <
Wow. Harsh. That’ll teach ‘em.
Who in the hell do they think they are, Doctors?
Arizona used to be REAL BAD about these scams. Same for the High Plains of Kansas. That was when full service stations were everywhere and you soon learned not to leave your car and watch the service man real close!
Sounds like about one day's revenue for this outfit.
Proper punishment would be putting them out of business entirely, with the owner sentenced to a year in prison for each $50,000 (median annual income in this country) he overcharged.
How about the guy that was scammed?
The company should pay him triple damages, attorney fees, lost wages, etc.
> you soon learned not to leave your car and watch the service man real close <
Yep. Some of those guys carried ice picks or screwdrivers. Go to the rest room, and when you come back you’ll have a badly leaking radiator.
That would be OK, but think of the costs for prison?
Public caning and chop a finger off to permanently mark him.
A cable cutter would suffice.
That’s like the window replacement company in Chicago who had an employee driving around the Loop at night with a wrist-rocket slingshot and ball bearings shooting out plate glass windows to drive up his business.
Reminds me of back in the day when I was in a gas station and the attendant told me my battery was bad. I asked him how he knew that. No answer.
The prison costs would likely be more than recovered, indirectly, by the example his imprisonment would serve for others of his ilk.
“Pour encourager les autres”.
Bart Soper’s character wasn’t too far off the mark.
Pastoria Prime Pick - a really good Rockford Files episode.
Nothing new here. I remember reading about travelers being defrauded by service stations that poured metal shavings on the engine while checking the oil and telling the traveler he needed extensive engine repairs.
Reminds me of Alan Jackson’s song, “The Talkin’ Song Repair Blues.”
The warning thing has lost its effect.
“So what do you think the sheriff would think of your business practices?”
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