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Towing In The Information Age

The Information Age And The Towing Professional

I am reading about a county using background checks on towing operators. The arguments are strong for using them and not using them. On the one hand you do not want to send former felons to pick up your daughter who is stuck roadside..alone. On the other hand, once you have paid for your crime, should you never have a chance again to operate a wrecker or rollback?

The only thing I can think of is separating types of tows allowed into two classes. Roadside pickup operators would have to have clean records while maybe impound lot towers or parking violation towers would have

less stringent requirements, barring theft records of course.

This will prevent highway tragedy, yet still allow people to work...

To read the original article this commentary addresses go to:
http://wentzville.patch.com/articles/county-opts-to-continue-tow-truck-driver-background-checks

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From wrecked to blessed: Mom explains tow truck's inspiring message - El Paso Times

From wrecked to blessed: Mom explains tow truck's inspiring message

By Victor R. Martinez \ EL PASO TIMES

For Adrian Martinez, it's sometimes difficult to carry on a social conversation, especially if he does not know you.

But when you talk about his two favorite things -- the Philadelphia Eagles and the Los Angeles Lakers -- his face lights up and the words flow like the follow-through on a Kobe Bryant jump shot.

"Kobe Bryant is my favorite player," Adrian said. "I like Michael Vick, too. He's a really good quarterback."
Adrian, a 15-year-old freshman at Canutillo High School, does not shy away from his admiration of the Philadelphia Eagles.

His room is painted midnight green in honor of his favorite NFL team. The walls are dotted with Eagles pendants, clocks and posters.

Like her son, Lilly Davila is not afraid to show her love for the things dear to her heart.
"I'm very proud to have an autistic child," Lilly Davila said of Adrian. "I feel totally blessed to call myself his mother."

Lilly Davila does not hide the fact that Adrian has autism. Matter of fact, Davila and her husband Luis have painted the autism awareness decal on the hood of the tow truck they own to raise awareness.

"We did it because not a lot of people understand what autism is," she said. "I get a lot of calls from people who say how proud they are because we have the autism awareness sticker on the truck. Sometimes they stop our drivers and tell them thank you for promoting autism awareness."

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City goes after tow-company license | 2011-12-20 | Indianapolis Business Journal | IBJ.com

IBJ Staff

Indianapolis is moving to revoke the license of a prominent local towing company that officials say has violated local ordinances and elicited more than two dozen consumer complaints.

The city’s Department of Code Enforcement on Monday issued a hearing notice to Interstate/Delaware and South Towing for license revocation or suspension.

According to the city, the company, which has locations downtown on Delaware Street and on Kitley Road on the city’s east side, has not upheld requirements to post signage and to get approval from parking lot owners or authorized agents before towing vehicles. The firm received a citation for inadequate signage in late October.

Interstate/Delaware and South’s general manager, Brian Meyer, could not be reached for comment Tuesday morning.

Earlier this year, the City-County Council approved regulations to prevent companies from engaging in predatory towing practices. The new rules include caps for towing and storage fees, requirements that towing companies accept cash and credit-card payments, and 24/7 access to towed vehicles.

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A city ends the use of towing for Predatory Government

Maricopa police admit to towing for dollars, promise change

BY STEVEN MAYER, Californian staff writerImage via Wikipedia

MARICOPA -- The chief of police in this hardscrabble town has had a change of heart -- and policy.
But the change didn't come easy. It was accompanied by sleepless nights and a rise in blood pressure for Maricopa Police Chief Derek Merritt.

No more, he says, will cops in this city of 1,200 in western Kern County pull over motorists for hanging a necklace from their rear-view mirror, having a crack in their windshield or driving with a burned-out license plate bulb.

In the past two years, Maricopa police have stopped hundreds of motorists for these and other "equipment violations."

Merritt says, and he's not about to apologize for his officers enforcing it.

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Municipalities should move on establishing towing rules | islandpacket.com

From Theislandpacket.com of The Beaufort Gazette

Municipalities should move on establishing towing rules

Published July 2011

Hilton Head Island and other Beaufort County municipalities should follow the county's lead on towing regulations.

In June, the county finalized reasonable rules for towing vehicles from private property without the owner's consent.

The county's ordinance sets limits on how much a tow operator charges and makes it easier and less punitively expensive for owners to get back their vehicles after they've been towed.

The push for towing regulations came from a deadly confrontation in December between a tow-truck driver and a man whose vehicle had been immobilized because it was parked on a street in Edgefield, a community that doesn't allow on-street parking because of its narrow roads.

Hilton Head officials are preparing to take up the issue, perhaps as soon as next month. Like the county, town officials should involve tow operators in the process of drafting an ordinance.

The rules should take into account operating costs for tow truck operators, but it should not allow them to exploit a captive market. When a vehicle is gone, the owner must pay up -- no matter how unreasonable the fee -- or he won't get back his vehicle.

We like the county's lower charges if an owner shows up before the vehicle is hooked up to a tow truck ($75) or before the vehicle is hauled away ($100).

And we like its prohibition against immobilizing a vehicle. Booting a vehicle does nothing to keep private streets and parking lots free of illegally parked vehicles.

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Sentencing set for Friday in tow-and-sue scam case

Jan 5, 2011
By Staff Report - Gilroy Dispatch

A San Benito father-son tandem that pleaded no contest to using their towing and collections business to scam hundreds of motorists for almost a decade will be sentenced Friday, according to the Santa Clara County Superior Court.

Sentencing for Vincent Cardinalli, 67, and his son, Paul Greer, 33, is scheduled for 9 a.m. at the Hall of Justice in San Jose.

A Gilroy Dispatch request to photograph the sentencing hearing was denied by Santa Clara County Judge Gilbert T. Brown.

In June, Cardinalli pleaded no contest to 99 felony charges and one misdemeanor charge - including counts of forgery, perjury and embezzlement - stemming from a tow-and-sue scam piloted by Cardinalli and members of his family, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.

In May, Greer pleaded no contest to 59 felony charges, including 26 counts of attempted grand theft, 14 counts of perjury, 13 counts of subornation of perjury, three counts of embezzlement and one count each of conspiracy to obstruct justice, presentation of false evidence and burglary, according to prosecutors.

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