New driver with nightmare towing company

There is no urgency lol. Especially if you have the entire road shut down, and traffic is stopped. That’s the safest place to be.

Any accident that occurs will be 4,5 maybe 15 car lengths away from you. Not under your trailer

Besides, if they were really in a hurry. They should have left 15 minutes earlier.

 

Just the daily hustle to make a quick buck, some people take it a little further than it should go.

 

good thing you didn't try to drop trailer more than likely it would have sank in the mud and you would have tripled the tow bill and it would have been very hard to get back under it even if it didn't sink ...... I have unlocked my tandems before and let them slide so you still have the weight on your tandems but not pulling the load .... a bobtail tractor is very easy to get stuck because there is no weight and you get very little traction.

 

You were money. LOTS of money to recovery, first hook on your truck gets the dollah.

Next time, YOU call your boss directly, THEY send the tow truck out. You don't talk to anyone else at all period no matter how stuck stuck you are.

I called for a wrecker two times in my life through my boss direct. And that is only after deciding that tractor will not get out of the hole without damage. I canceled one after tearing out a fender getting out of one hole. The damage to the fender is cheap compared to the losses in wrecker recovery.

Another time I got stuck but good in mud on sysco property. 8 pallets got me back onto pavement. Those pallets are probably still there to this day in the ground. She got away from me into a proper tractor jackknife and I went into the field to get out of it. Chopped up the wood and in front of drives and back out in a few minutes. Pallets? 4 bucks each. Cheap. Until I learned to stop hauling with pallets in the nose. Too many over gross tickets among other things.

Tow companies are thirsty for the dollah. A birdie in any form showing what truck got stuck where is worth a lot of dollah to get a hook on there crook or deception etc. Once a hook is on you by your choice or not, the billing starts to flow and it's a real parasite sometimes.

 

I would have done exactly the same, tried to unhook and rehook if it looked possible, trying to save the Boss $$.And to avoid getting him involved Lol. Towing co scammed You, not a surprise. In Florida I got a boot ( Car boot ) on my steer. With a note and a phone # . Guy told Me I was lucky his class 8 was broke down, Otherwise instead of $175 it would have been $1000 Tow Bill. Obviously a kick back scam ran with Owner of property. All made legal by a little sign stating Trucks will be Towed. Live and Learn, I no longer ignore those signs Lol. His advice was park on a public street in Fl. Since a 24 hr notice to move along with a ticket before being towed.