Posts by Editorial Staff
Shine ‘n Star Photo Parade, Heavy-Duty Recovery Tips, Side Recovery and More
The Tow Times October issue contains lots of tow truck eye candy with the 2020 Shine ‘n Star Photo Parade, which features a sampling of trucks entered in this year’s contest. This issue also focuses on recovery — how tow companies are using side-pulling capacity to make car carriers more versatile, and heavy-duty recovery tips.…
Read MoreDetroit Brings Safety Systems to New Western Star 49X
Among the new features offered with the new Western Star 49X truck is the Detroit Assurance suite of active safety systems. Detroit Assurance uses fused radar and high-definition camera technology to activate its features including: · Side Guard Assist (SGA): Radar technology detects moving objects and pedestrians on the passenger side of the 49X that…
Read MorePeterbilt’s Denton Plant Celebrates 40th Anniversary
Peterbilt’s Denton, Texas, manufacturing plant is celebrating its 40th year of operation. The plant began operation as a 435,000 sq ft facility with 81 employees on 80 acres of land. Today it sits on 238 acres, employs over 2,500 people and has over 700,000 sq ft of space spread out over multiple buildings. Of those…
Read MoreAnd the Winners Are …
Once again I’m amazed at the 2020 Shine ‘n Star tow truck Photo Parade “eye candy” in the October issue of Tow Times magazine. Each truck shows the owner’s pride in their towing equipment as an advertising billboard, with clever and outstanding use of color schemes and graphics. How could you not turn your head…
Read MoreHONK Conducts Continuous Background Checks on Tow Operators Through Partnership with Checkr
HONK Technologies, the on-demand platform for connecting motorists, towing professionals and insurers, has announced the integration of additional fraud prevention capabilities through its ongoing partnership with Checkr. HONK will now look for recent changes in service providers’ operator’s data to supplement annual background checks. Additionally, HONK restricts previously banned service providers from re-entering the HONK…
Read MoreMiller Industries Virtual Move Over 5K Challenge
Due to ceremonies and fundraising events being canceled this year for the international towing museum and Wall of the Fallen, Miller industries is encouraging people to participate in a virtual 5K run or walk event to help raise awareness and funds for the museum’s Survivor Fund. “We are challenging people in the towing and recovery…
Read MoreAs the World Turns
There’s a word I use to describe as the world turns and everything that is happening in it today, and that word is crazy. There are a lot more words that can describe what we’re witnessing and experiencing: insane, mad, foolish, out of one’s mind, banana’s, nuts, batty, loony, screwy, ridiculous, preposterous, laughable or having…
Read More$12,000 Reward Offered for Information on Georgia Tow Operator Hit-And-Run
A reward of $12,000 is being offered for information that will lead to the arrest of the hit-and-run driver who killed tow operator Eugene “Jason” Jennings Willis. Willis, 31, was killed on September 17 while loading a vehicle on the shoulder of I-20 in McDuffie County, Ga. Wayne’s Towing Recovery Transport, the company Willis worked…
Read MoreSmall Business Week
This week has been declared Small Business Week 2020. I learned that the “U.S. Small Business Administration counts companies with as much as $35.5 million in sales and 1,500 employees as “small businesses”, depending on the industry. Outside government, companies with less than $7 million in sales and fewer than five hundred employees are widely considered small businesses”. While my…
Read MoreDaimler Trucks and Torc Robotics Adding Automated Driving Testing Center in New Mexico
September 2020 marks one year of Daimler Trucks and Torc Robotics partnering as a team after the U.S. based automated driving technology company became part of Daimler Trucks’ Autonomous Technology Group. One year together, collaboratively pursuing a common goal of bringing series-produced highly automated trucks (SAE Level 4) to the roads within the decade; including…
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