Posted on 02/15/2025 6:20:25 AM PST by AbolishCSEU
This consumer investigation takes a look at New York towing laws. There are perhaps few things more frustrating than walking outside to find that your car has been towed. But News10NBC anchor Nikki Rudd was more than frustrated when she got the bill for almost $5,000 for a 33-mile tow. Is that legal? That’s the question News10NBC consumer investigator set out to answer:
It was just after midnight on December 21, 2024. Nikki was driving home to Livingston County after having anchored the 11:00 p.m. news. “It was a snowy night. Everyone was going slow and in a single lane,” Rudd recalled. “Next thing I know a semi was passing, and you know when the road is snow-covered you can’t see the lanes.”
The semi hit her bumper, sending her sliding on the snow-slickened highway.
“And then I was kind of bouncing off his trailer,” said Rudd. “And that’s when I thought okay, this is how it all ends right?”
Fortunately, Rudd is still with us, but her car was clearly damaged. Rudd has AAA, so when she called 911, the dispatcher offered to call a AAA-service provider for her.
“And so dispatch called me back and said, ‘We can’t get a hold of any AAA tow truck drivers,’” Rudd recalled. “I said, ‘Okay, what am I supposed to do?’ And she said, ‘There is this one place, but you have to request it’. And I said, ‘Okay, I request it.’ And it was Bald Hill.”
What Nikki didn’t know is that Livingston County has an approved list of tow truck companies. The sheriff told News10NBC’s Deanna Dewberry that Bald Hill is not on that list because of past billing complaints. So, in Livingston County, to get an unapproved tow truck company, the motorist must request it.
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She's so awful, they switched her from prime time to the 11 o'clock news.
Towing is a scam in many cities.
The politicians get a cut.
Even in a corrupt dump like New Jersey they’ve figured out how to deal with the type of problem this driver faced. Towing companies bid on contracts for state roads and by municipality, and the prices are set up front. This shady operator wouldn’t even be allowed to tow the driver’s car under those conditions.
Don’t auto insurance companies have contracted tow services? Mine (USAA) does. I think you could select to not have such coverage to save a couple dollars every year but that might be foolish in a corrupt state like New York.
If you watch that show on TV about those tow truck thieves in LOST WAGES, Nevada you really feel sorry for the victims whose vehicles are towed. It is almost like they are set up, IMHO. What a racket.
There is a number on the back of my insurance card to call 7/24 for towing and roadside assistance.
You’ve never seen/heard her broadcasts. Untenable.
Did the 911 operator get their cut?
Did the 911 operator get their cut?
Having lived in the Free State of Florida for forty years, my sense is that in NYS, CA, IL, MI . . . the state and local governments along with the populace are out to screw anyone they can.
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