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The Tow Times Annual SourceBook Buyer’s Guide and More
The Tow Times September issue contains the industry’s best buyer’s guide to products, services, distributors, accessories and everything towing and recovery. Use it throughout the year as a handy reference. This issue also features a Q&A with industry leaders on the top concerns in facing the towing industry, a federal mandate requiring a review of…
Read MoreTexas Tow Operator Dies in Traffic Collision
A Texas tow operator died Tuesday, September 3 from injuries received in a two-vehicle collision in Lubbock. According to news reports, Patric Barrio, 26, was driving a flatbed car carrier loaded with a vehicle on the deck and wheel-lift when it collided with an SUV at the intersection of Interstate 27 and 19th Street. Barrio reportedly…
Read MoreAnytime Towing
This “Any Time is Tow Time” slogan is lighted in amber and appears on the bumper of the 2018 Shine ‘n Star car carrier winner from Anytime Towing of Waynesville, N.C. The truck is a 2013 Ford F-650 with a Chevron 10 Series bed. Additional custom work includes an 84-gallon fuel tank and serious lighting featuring…
Read MoreHonoring Police, Fire and Towing
This four-wheel-drive 2019 Ford F-550 with a Kilar 15,000-lb. capacity, 19.5-foot deck is brand new to the fleet of King’s Towing & Recovery of Perry, Ohio. Owner and company president Terry Lawrence took this truck to Chris Nicastro of Sandusky Speedway Graphics of Sandusky, Ohio, who worked with Lawrence to create the vinyl lettering and…
Read MoreDoing the Right Thing
In the television show What Would You Do?, hidden cameras are used as the show host observes and comments on how people behave when confronted with dilemmas that require them to either take action or just walk away and mind their own business. Various scenarios are created that force people to make split-second decisions such as…
Read MoreTow Operator Carjacked at Gunpoint in Detroit
A tow operator in Detroit, Mich., was carjacked Friday, August 23, after he was called to a location by an individual requesting a tow. The 43-year-old operator responded to the 17200 block of Freeland Street at approximately 2:15 a.m. where two suspects carjacked him at gunpoint and fled in the tow truck. The suspects them…
Read MoreAlabama Tow Operator Dies from Injuries Received in July 29 Roadside Crash
Montgomery, Ala., police have confirmed that tow operator Richard Wilson, 53, has died from injuries he received when he was struck on I-85 near Forest Avenue on July 29. Wilson, of Millbrook, Ala., was attempting to load a vehicle onto his tow truck when he was hit by a BMW at approximately 6:45 p.m. The…
Read MoreCanada Tow Operator Injured on Roadside Asks Motorist to Use Caution
Fort Saskatchewan, Canada, tow operator Calvin Finnegan’s story of how he was struck on Highway 2 on December 2, 2018 appears on Fortsaskonline. The operator was winching a vehicle stuck in the median when a semi-truck struck his tow truck and a second semi went into the median and hit Finnegan, who suffered fractured shoulder blades,…
Read MoreRed Means Stop
My four-year-old niece was learning about symbols, so when I was in the car driving with her I would point out the golden arches and she would say, “McDonald’s.” Then we would stop at a stoplight and I would say, “red is for …” and she would say “stop.” Then I would say, “yellow is…
Read MoreProsecutors Question Competency of Suspect Accused in California Slayings
Prosecutors are questioning whether Malik Dosouqi, 26, of Pacifica, Calif., is mentally competent to stand trial for the alleged June 17 and 18 killings of a tow operator and taxi driver in San Mateo County, Calif. Prosecutors say Dosouqi first lured taxi driver Abdulmalek Nasher to a remote location on June 17 and fatally stabbed…
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