February 2,2011
Image via WikipediaTeam 4's Jim Parsons reported on Wednesday that nothing has happened nine months after Pittsburgh city council approved a new law to crack down on rogue towing companies.The most important feature of the new ordinance that got final approval in April requires tow truck companies to get a license from the city.Parsons asked Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's administration how many licenses it has given out so far. The answer? None.Last week in Oakland, Parsons spotted a man on a cell phone who is a lookout for a towing company. The man was watching a parking lot, waiting to see if any of the car owners who parked there went anywhere other than the store that owns the lot.Men like him were supposed to have a special license by now, but a Team 4 investigation finds the new law regulating towers still isn't being enforced. Pittsburgh resident Dale Labby wishes it was after his experience with a different towing company."They charged me $550," said Labby, who was on Brookline Boulevard last month, waiting to make a turn, when his car got rear-ended by another vehicle. Suddenly, he said, tow trucks were on the scene."They showed up fast, real fast, before the city police and before the fire trucks and everything," Labby said.Somebody -- he doesn't know who -- asked for his car keys as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance, Labby said. A day later, when he was released from the hospital, he found out the bill for his tow was $550."That's outrageous. I don't want to see nobody else get ripped off," Labby said.
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