Industry News

National Move Over Day is scheduled for Saturday, October 17. The day was established to raise awareness for the safety of first responders including tow operators, police, fire, medical and other emergency workers. Towing associations observing the event include the Arizona Professional Towing & Recovery Association, California Tow Truck Association and the Wisconsin Towing Association.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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FleetNet America® announces it has completed its 100,000th electronic dispatch through sureEcosystem®. With customers’ expectations continuing to rise, FleetNet made investments to improve customer experience by using sureEcosystem, an electronic platform that allows service providers to connect and communicate directly with FleetNet. Jackson’s Diesel Service received and accepted FleetNet’s 100,000th electronic dispatch through sureEcosystem on…

A tow operator was killed in a traffic crash Wednesday, Sept. 16, in Castaic, Calif. The operator, a 63 year-old Ventura man whose name is being withheld pending notification of kin, was driving a flatbed tow truck on the northbound 5 Freeway at approximately 12:00 a.m., when his truck collided with the rear of a…