Geri Roskopf’s Blog

One of the things I’ve been doing during the past couple of weeks is reaching out to several towing friends to check in and to see how things are going. Usually I get an annual update on my friend’s businesses and families at our state towing association’s tow show, but that has been cancelled for…

The coronavirus has taken so many things from us, but it can’t take away all the special people we have — especially the women in our lives. Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend and I started thinking about my mother, who passed away in 2005. There’s not a day that goes by that I…

The governor of my state of Wisconsin just extended the safer at home order through May, and like most businesses, I’m wondering what else I have to do to keep moving forward. I believe one of the hardest things to do right now to get through this crisis is to have faith and trust. To…

I recently saw an interview with country singer Dolly Parton about a literacy reading program called Dolly’s Imagination Library. Dolly’s goal is to send a book each month to children from birth to age five. She recently started “Goodnight with Dolly.” One night a week, she reads a story to children via YouTube. In her…

We are all facing really uncertain times – times that are going into the history books, for sure. The moral of the following story is a great one: One day a farmer’s donkey fell into a deep well. The animal cried pitifully for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally,…

I try to keep the mindset that my glass is half-full but I’ve been kicked in the butt with all that’s going on with the coronavirus and how it’s affected all of us — in every aspect of our lives. I had a bit of a meltdown the other day when the governor of my…

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Yesterday I went to the shop early to balance my checkbook and get a few other things done before the doors opened and employees started coming in. I was just about to make a pot of coffee when I remembered I couldn’t have any coffee because I was on a 12-hour fasting for some lab tests later…

I read an interesting article on Justin Cruse of WreckMaster, who was recently named the 2020 Towman of the Year by American Towman.  Justin is definitely striving to accomplish what his father Donnie Cruse did in 1991. Justin has a vision for the company that encompasses many aspects facing the towing and recovery industry in regard…

Many of us in the towing and recovery industry have at one time or another found ourselves in difficult situations where we feel in danger, or we’re being criticized for something we said or did. I think of these times as “being in hot water.” I wasn’t feeling well this past weekend and decided to…