Industry official seeking respect for tow truckers

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Industry official seeking respect for tow truckers
8/13/07

TORONTO -- On an annual per-capita basis, as many tow-truck drivers are killed in North America in the line of duty as police officers or firefighters.

As executive director of Ontario Recovery Group (ORG), based in Bracebridge, Ont., Nelson would like to one day acknowledge all those tow-truckers who've lost their lives on the job. He's also determined to make his tow-truck organization a national body, so it speaks for the entire towing and recovery industry.
It's an industry, he says, that doesn't get the respect it deserves.
ORG was officially incorporated in 1988, and this fall will hold its first-ever four-day towing conference in Toronto, at which point, Nelson says, the entire trucking industry will get a first-hand look at the issues and challenges facing this critical link in the transportation chain.

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