Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Towing is supposed to be a solution that helps get a disabled or wrecked truck off the road safely. But in reality, towing has ...
Fenn Church had to pay nearly $17,500 to get two of his trucks returned by what he and other trucking companies say is a predatory towing company in Memphis, Tennessee. Church is president and CEO of ...
Nearly 30% of crash-related heavy truck towing invoices included excessive rates or unwarranted additional charges, according to a new comprehensive truck towing analysis by the American ...
The prominence of the predatory towing issue in trucking is such that none other than the U.S. Secretary of Transportation weighed in in early 2024, along with his chief at the Federal Motor Carrier ...
Recent years have seen a well-documented rise of predatory practices around nonconsensual tows of heavy-duty trucks, whether police-ordered after a crash or parking-enforcement-type tows from a ...
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THIS WARNING. LET’S MAKE IT CLEAR RIGHT UP FRONT. THE VAST MAJORITY OF TOW TRUCK OPERATORS OUT HERE ON THE ROADS THESE DAYS ARE HONEST, HARDWORKING COMPANIES. BUT THAT’S NOT ALWAYS THE CASE. AND ...
A recent report by the American Transportation Research Institute indicates trucking companies are seeing more predatory practices and instances of excessive towing rates, according to a release by ...