Geri Roskopf’s Blog

I can always hear the exasperation in a customer’s voice when they call needing a truck towed. While having your personal truck down can ruin your day, if a truck used for business is down, that is distress that turns into stress. Not only are you looking at the downtime and the cost of towing…

I was on a Zoom meeting and one of the participants said she didn’t have time to sit down and read her Tow Times magazine. She said there were about six issues sitting on her desk and that she much preferred scheduling time to read digital content. Another meeting participant agreed, and said statistics show…

My three-year-old granddaughter was so excited to tell me she had a secret. Then she giggled and said she couldn’t tell me it, because it was a secret. I babysat her this past weekend, and she proudly presented me with about 20 little pieces of notebook paper, folded in half, and closed with princess stickers.…

When Thanksgiving arrived, I immediately turned on the local radio station that plays Christmas music. My husband said, “bah humbug.” Not so much to be like Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol, but for him, it was too early to hear Christmas music. Not for me. While I like listening and singing along to songs…

I was opening the wrapper for a Hershey’s milk chocolate bar (you know me and chocolate) and on the back of the wrapper was a suggestion to spend s’more time together. S’mores is a campfire treat consisting of a toasted marshmallow and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two graham crackers. I liked the way…

Once again, I’m amazed at the Tow Times 2021 Shine ‘n Star winners. The graphics on these tow trucks are incredible, and they are rolling billboards for those companies. While I know the owners took extra care to paint, wash and polish their trucks before taking a photo and sending it in to the contest,…

“How are you? How is it going?” People ask me this all the time, and my response is, “fine.” But am I really fine? Most often I’m tired, stressed and wondering where the day went. Life in towing is not easy. It takes a toll on your mind, body and spirit. The following poem is…

I’m a tow operator, on my last call of the day. Thinking of what’s for dinner, whistling as I go out the door on my way.   Pull up to the vehicle I’m going to tow, but don’t see the owner — not a good sign. Check to see if the owner is around. No…

I was happy to see in the October issue of Tow Times with the results of the 2021 Tow Times Fleet Survey, It totally addressed some of the issues that have been on my mind. The percentage of companies having 2 to 4 employees was 37 percent, which included the owner, and 5 to 10…

I saw a quote that read, “Our obsession with using mobile devices every hour of every day boils down to technology addition. Because it’s an addiction, most people have trouble managing it, especially when driving a vehicle. People of all ages have become addicted to their mobile devices, which can have dire consequences on the…