Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Old is not always bad, in fact Old can be radically new

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There was a condition that reared its evil head a few hours ago, amid my hacking cough a call came into DXE HQ, for a special tow.

So I took old LexiBelle out and in shorter order, that old 500 Holmes, did the job quick and made the few others standing around in their coveralls with new equipment bewildered.

Old skool, beat new gear again.

Then I get on fb, as I tried(still am) tried to warm up some b4 calling it a night, and saw a thing on this fb page about a national tow list. and putting out a directory of tow companies as a resource to motorists.

Not a bad idea. But its been tried before, with ultimate failure. TRAA, (Towing & Recovery Association of America) , put one out of its members to AAA for a resource. Some were AAA contractors, some weren’t. But the arguments started, AAA was sending none AAA contractors on motor club calls, over AAA contractors , because the none AAA contractors were less cost to the motorist. So AAA stopped publishing the directory and TRAA stopped listing it. The National Street Rod Association, put out a similar directory, for NSRA members. It was called the NSRA Buddy List. Hot rod shops, tow services etc gave deep discounts for being listed. Again arguments started, ultimately NSRA quit the service. Our parent organization the UAITA published a similar directory, that went out to our long haul otr members. Again, none UAITA member companies got called, over member companies. Even to the point everybody started undercutting each other to get on these lists. With some going as so far as trashing other companies trucks so they couldn’t respond, so others could.

To put out such a list takes a ton of research and many employees. Some companies that look like good guys on the surface are sharks feeding off guppies underneath.

One poster on I Love Tow Trucks said something like just do a simple Google search. Well that can be good some search results can pop up from disgruntled former employees or customers who didn’t feel they got a fair shake, or at least a good deal.

I have always said, when going to a new city and your looking up a tow service, look for names of companies, that have been in business for at least 30 plus years, under the same trade name, and ran by the same person or family of the creating owner. In Idaho that number is small. In fact only 8. There’s us here at Highway-Hooker/Dixie Toewing. Hagerman(Hazzard) Idaho. Boise TNT Towing, and B&W, Wrecker Service. Pocatello, Denny’s Wrecker Service Stan's Towing and Custom Towing, in the Idaho Falls area its Morgan's and Sunkiss Towing. Outside of those everybody is either new, start ups or merged with others.

Even partnering with other companies is a tight rope walk. Even though your partnering with another company, you both want each others calls. And its not uncommon to find bitter feuds between good friends due to these feuds.

I’m not saying co-operation between companies, territory protection, and other things like that can’t be done. But in the 21st century, we are living under an even more cut throat industry. The toew pie is even thinner per slice than it was even 20 years ago. Anything that gives you a foot and leg up is good, but the effort can outweigh benefits if you tick off some competitor you might have to work a gnarly wreck clean up with . Its best to leave the listings to the Yellow Pages.

Keep it toewing

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