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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Arizona used to be REAL BAD about these scams.
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Still is.....
“So what do you think the sheriff would think of your business practices?”
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He gets a cut ,, he endorses it as long as they don’t scam locals.
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