Comments on: Towing Contractors Seek 42% Rate Hike In Ct

By: DRIVER

DRIVER — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:31:00 +0000

What are you talking about?? Post your rates?? I’ll go first…. base rate is $110 plus $6.50 per mile and your paying for the first 2 miles. OK buddy time to come back to earth…..after you crash your car…While your in the ambulance on the way to the hospital on your cell phone calling tow companies shopping rates…. everyone stuck on I95 because your car is blocking traffic should just wait to get work while you haggle…..Really guy??? Or better yet after you get a DUI at 3am…you should use your 1 call to negotate a better tow/storage with the tow company. Did you actually read that before you wrote it? Wake up.

By: DRIVER

DRIVER — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:20:51 +0000

Simple solution to living in a town with a “jack boot” mentality…..pay your taxes, don’t park illegally, don’t drink and drive and obey the traffic laws….then you my friend won’t have to worry about non-consensual tow charges. Otherwise how much would you charge to get out of bed at 3:00am to pull some drunk JA’s piece of junk of of the woods??? Should tow companies just pay guys around the clock by the hour to get maybe one tow a night?? No, of course not they wouldn’t be in business. All you people complaining should throw down about $50k for decent used truck, insure it, hire someone to drive it and get in the game if you think it’s that good. If your gonna be paying around the clock…Can I get a job???

By: Joe Tow

Joe Tow — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:48:41 +0000

Let me just say , getting up at 2 am for a drunk driver and towing his car he just crashed 2 miles in the freezing cold for 88.00 isn’t alot of fun , also i’d like to say if you get hurt and call a ambulance , and they bring you 2 miles to the clinic and they send you a bill in two weeks for 544.00 ….. don’t you think that is a bit extreme?
I think nonconsensual tows are cheap , if you dont like the rates go buy AAA .
We are providing an emergency service , we are on call all day and night , name another service that you can call at anytime , day or night and expect someone to come out with in 20 mins , and to spend anywhere from 30 mins or 6 hours doing a service for you???????????????????

By: a tower

a tower — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:24:18 +0000

if you dont have newer euipment dmv and dot like to hassle you and driving around at all hours? last time i checked cars break down and get into accidents at all hours and we have a very little allowed response time from the police or we are taken off the rotation list and when it comes to the paint jobs most of us do our own trucks in our own shops .we spend more time in our trucks and at our garages then some of you spend with your families.no one tells you your house or yard is to nice or to well maintained .if we showed up to pickup your vehicle after a police stop or break down do you want us to do it with a relic that needs to be towed it’self or with a nice well maintained truck?

By: a tower

a tower — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:14:02 +0000

try in exess of a hundred thousand a year in insurance alone

By: Hear, Hear

Hear, Hear — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:17:58 +0000

Maybe it’s time to give the contracts to the ones on the sidelines and not represented by CTRP. Why is this a monopoly?

By: Sm. Tow Company

Sm. Tow Company — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:21:18 +0000

Maybe, Thats why your no longer in the business?
Alot more to it then that.
Go to the TRPC web site and educate yourself.

By: Sm. Tow Company

Sm. Tow Company — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:01:47 +0000

The “Attitude” comes from years of dealing with people like you John who cannot have an intelligent conversation and have to resort to name calling.
Ignorance is bliss.

By: John

John — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:05:20 +0000

Nice attitude. You remind me that the chimp owner owns a towing company. Hide behind govt regulations while you can, comtetion is on the horizon.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:26:54 +0000

so, Stupid, after I get through reading all the misspellings, WHAT ARE those costs you have for

a) fuel? ______(let’s say $2.87/gal x 100 miles x 13 mpg = approx. $22; average towed vehicle at 4,000 lbs @65 mph highway using 6.5L turbodiesel engine, dependent on driving habits–speeding decreases mpg by approx. 3 mpg for each increase of 10 mph–truck transmission gearing (avg. 3.73), and engine idling) more for gas-powered vehicles;

b) insurance? _____per tow [$12,000/yr divided by three tows/day = $11/tow]

c) wages? (for one hour average tow)____(also while it takes you an hour to get dressed? or time in the vehicle responding to/from the tow???) Let’s say $25/hr.

So far, my estimate is $58 (but don’t forget to DEDUCT OUT the eventual life span of an already-paid out diesel truck, high resale value, lowered maintenance costs of a diesel engine…

Fill in the blanks…what YOU want is payment for to/and from the scene of the tow, plain and simple–while making customers wait…

BTW …I used to be in the business..