Road Service Like AAA for Trucks?

I've been a truck driver for 20 years and I've never heard of one Biofumes...

 

Never heard of one. I am thinking of starting one. $100/month with one year agreement and call it 1-800-rip-u-off because that's what most heavy haul tow companies do. Especially Webb's Towing in Auburndale, Florida. Service call to just show up is $150. That's on top of what they will charge for the work. Then they wonder why tow companies are being called from other counties to do the work.

 

You guys checked the price of a Heavy wrecker lately? Think about the fact that most wrecker outfits have at least two. They don't run constantly every day like your highway tractor but they still gotta be paid for.

So when you call out a wrecker or even a "road service" truck for some piddly little thing think about what yoour boss is gonna be thinking about you.

 

Which is why you contact your company and let THEM decide if they want you to try to handle it, or get it done by a so called "professional." A lot of these bigger companies don't want you to do anything more than perhaps change out a fuse.

OTOH, if you're an O/O and can fix it yourself, why pay a tow, unless you are a hazard where you are?

 

So, how often do you need a tow?

Happened to me once, I got stuck in mud.
It cost $250 to pull be out.

Was that high?

I am a company driver and my company would probably have paid for it.
I paid it myself though, as a lesson to myself that stupid mistakes cost someone to fix.

And personally, I don't think I was overcharged.
Those big tow trucks cost a lot of money, and they are sitting more than towing.