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I've had access to tow trucks most of my life and they always seem like a relatively easy way to bring in money.

Anybody here actually had a primary or side business that strictly did towing? I'm sure having a lot and county or city impound type contracts would be a whole other can of worms, but I'm wondering about strictly towing and dropping.

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I did on-call nights and weekends for a while. I made good money. The owner cleaned up...

The owner hooked some for a repo guy. Sometimes made nearly a weeks pay as a bonus on those...


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If I had one a few years ago, I would’ve picked up interstate abandones and took them to the crusher for $260 a ton.

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Wasn’t there a guy here a few years ago who converted his Avalanche into a tow truck for bears?

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I'm thinkin' you can't hookup most these new cars with the old traditional style wreckers, gotta have a flatbed roll on.

I gotta car trailer with a winch mounted on it that does just fine.
I get plenty of "hey Jeff, you still got that car trailer" phone calls from friends in need.

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Originally Posted by efw
Wasn’t there a guy here a few years ago who converted his Avalanche into a tow truck for bears?


Yep, and I was busting his balls on Mewe this morning again too. I been doggin' that mf'er like a rented mule over there.

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Licenses, insurance, etc. make it difficult to have as a viable part time gig. Folks who do it full time do pretty well around here.

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I think he (claiborne) actually had a person with a wrecker with “5 miles of cable” pull that bear out

The uberlanche was for sale, as I recall, all cherry’d up and perfect. Only 230,000 miles and a burnt trqnsmission ya know just cosmetic stuff.

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Originally Posted by JeffA
I'm thinkin' you can't hookup most these new cars with the old traditional style wreckers, gotta have a flatbed roll on.

I gotta car trailer with a wench mounted on it that does just fine.
I get plenty of "hey Jeff, you still got that car trailer" phone calls from friends in need.



That wench got blue eyes and blonde hair?


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Originally Posted by efw
Wasn’t there a guy here a few years ago who converted his Avalanche into a tow truck for bears?


Fugg ya. Three miles of cable on that batch too.

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A buddy of mine had a tow truck, he would use it to repo cars on the reservation, he contracted with the local car lots that would carry the note.... got a job, buy a car deal.
It was kinda risky business but at least he wasn't on call


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Better have you wits about you if you are doing repos. I guy I worked with a guy years ago had a son who did repo. The son was shot and killed by a guy who was living in the back of a van he tried to repo.

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Originally Posted by gregintenn
Licenses, insurance, etc. make it difficult to have as a viable part time gig. Folks who do it full time do pretty well around here.


Are you referring to full on tow companies with a shop and an impound lot?

I know it would vary by location but I'd be curious to hear ball park figures on just licensing and insurance a tow rig.


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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual.
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Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
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My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Better have you wits about you if you are doing repos. I guy I worked with a guy years ago had a son who did repo. The son was shot and killed by a guy who was living in the back of a van he tried to repo.


I would take judo lessons first so no worries.


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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual.
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Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
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My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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My Dad had an auto salvage from the late ‘60s till he died in 010. His first wrecker was a Studebaker pickup with a homemade boom! Ran the winch with a starter and flywheel!
In the mid ‘70s he bought an F350 with a Holmes double boom. You could separate them and swing out over the side for winching and picking up wrecks. We did the 24 hr towing/recovery and later bought an F600 with a flatbed rollback bed.
The big money wasn’t in towing, but storage of wrecks afterwards. Maybe $50 for hauling it in, but $30 a day until the insurance would decide on what was gonna be done with it. Usually a week for the adjuster to come look at it, maybe another week or two until a repair shop or insurance salvage came and picked it up.
Back when cars had bumpers it wasn’t a big deal, but nowadays you’ve gotta get under the wheels or have a flatbed. Plastic and glass ain’t got no place you can hook to.
The Old Man was hell for loading the rollback up with aluminum, iron or copper to haul in for scrap. We’d load her up in the afternoon to haul in in the morning. I was working 3rd shift and I’d always help him get stuff gathered up and loaded. I don’t know how many damn times he’d get a call and shove everything off on the ground to go pick one up. Next day, I was back loading the damn scrap! mad I tried to tell him I’d pay the towing price just to avoid the extra work, but he’d just laugh.
I sure don’t miss getting outta bed at 2 or 3 in the morning to go out in the damn blizzard because some drunk missed the turn. That’s for the younger people! laugh
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Originally Posted by efw
Wasn’t there a guy here a few years ago who converted his Avalanche into a tow truck for bears?


I believe there was........
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Originally Posted by johnw
I did on-call nights and weekends for a while. I made good money. The owner cleaned up...

The owner hooked some for a repo guy. Sometimes made nearly a weeks pay as a bonus on those...


Were the majority of your calls "oh fugk" or "illegal parking" type calls?


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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual.
Originally Posted by Judman
Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
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My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Not tow, just the oen

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I knew a guy who did it full time. He taught his sons how to siphon gas out of the cars and search cars for money. Real upstanding guy

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A white back, we had a thread about the Johnstown flood of 1977.
A couple days later, Dad had the wrecker at my grandma’s house in Hornerstown. Some fellow, I guess a subcontractor for the insurance outfits hired Dad to haul disabled cars out of Johnstown up to Richland, where they later actioned them off. This guy had several guys with wrecker service, hooking them up and towing them up to Richland. We spent 2 weeks at it. $50 bucks a clip, 6 or more trips a day until the mess was cleaned up and things put back together.
I forget how much the Old Man had coming, but it was a chunk of change.
He and the other wreckers never saw a nickel. The guy skipped town! Time and fuel wasted!
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