If so, everyone in the traffic jam has to pay the bill because it takes longer to clean up while the driver rings up different tow companies to compare quotes. State should contract a good towing service at fair rates. In my area authorities made a good deal for everyone.

what you said, makes no sense, like the grammar is so bad, I have no idea what you said. You just blow in from stupid town?

kallme Jay: Word salad? Sounds like gibberish to me.

This is why we vote against socialistic principles

+jay please re-post, but this time in English.

FnixGhod1 i agree

Someone? Don't you mean *everyone*? Corruption is the standard format for modern US policing.

State Police are the crooked ones here I know quite a few of them on the take

Why would somebody pay off "Everyone" ?? .. that's the silliest thing I have heard in a while.. You pay the top dog, the rest has to follow the chain of command, no reason to pay anybody under the person you paid off initially. Or blame, for that matter, the everyday Joes, that are driving patrol cars, and making sure nobody gets hurt further are usually very normal people like us. If there is a bribe involved, it certainly isn't to the street cops, but somebody who has an authority to sign that contract. Maybe there wasn't though, cops just needed a reliable service to get things done, and a company offered just that. And honestly, when you are guaranteed business by a contract, why not charge a million bucks for it. Capitalism at it's finest. If nobody bought diamonds, they would a buck a dozen....

FnixGhod1 , m

Insurance is likely over 1k/month/truck the trucks are 500k or more... That tow bill maybe payed the insurance on that 1 heavy for the year... nothing else.

@@mattlane2282 Don't stick up for them. The other company has the same industry standards and would have charged a third of that. The owner was also busted a few years later for bribery. They were criminals plain and simple.

Harley Man The Train Fan Baltimore seems to have a huge corruption problem within their police. So many articles online!!!

Yea that’s true

Harley Man The Train Fan May God bless Maryland and may God bless Baltimore!

Good!!

It happened in the City of Buffalo,N.Y. and the person that owned the towing company was arrested changed and found guilty in a court of law and his company was put out of business.

he reminds me of eddie murphy lol

When you charge $10,000 per truck you can look like that.

@Johnny Five What does clinton news network have to do with it? The owner of the tow company WAS busted for bribery a few years back.

boodieman...that is exactly what it is...

Yes

It was, with city connections. There are other vids floating around that document the investigation and the outcome. B&T owner Gasper Fiore pleaded guilty to bribery charges in 2017. He had ties to felon mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and arranged for bribes to several other local level officials in a few different jurisdictions, as well as a couple of state level officials, including Michigan State Police troopers.

Edward Martinez what fuckin language do you speak? It sure as hell isnt english

Never trust the cops

goddessmelanisia i dont know how ur police in that area work. But here. The police have a rotation of towing companies they go through

That may be (rotation), but the police don't set the fees.

You need to charge going rate with the cops... your all crying over a heavy bill... car roll over here your looking at 1K by the time you get back to the yard...

goddessmelanisia should of called me i would of done it for you for free

Rotation wrecker is how most areas do it.

Nice English.

To who? There is no regulation. They can do whatever they want.

John Nelson all mgr are like that

Funny cause tow companies in MN charge 5 a mile 120 hook up and other misc charges, not a rip off, everybody hase to pay for the trucks, building, employees, get your facts straight, my family owns the 3rd largest towing company in MN

Andrew Shepherd 9055 tow truck cost around 400 to 500 a 75ton rotator cost about 750,000 dollars

What you're seeing here is a bill for the overall time on the scene - not the actual tow. I would have refused the bill and let them keep the truck, demanding the cargo instead, filing a lawsuit if need be.

Seeing how they are the only ones allowed on the scene, I'm not sure how they can charge for that, unless they pro-rate it against every vehicle they tow. The lady interviewed had a good point in that the tow did not involve righting an over-turned or jack-knifed rig. It was a simple hook-up and drive-off. Also, her tow company would have taken the rig to a shop. Now she has to pay for a second tow to a dealership.

Irrelevant, pay up.

Ricky Crane ain’t it ironic that you profile pic is a Ford (I’m kidding Chevy sucks)

@@001looker Yo mama is irrelevant so take that.

@iamnobody noone I JUST LIKE ALL CAPS, NO SCREAMING!!!!!😀😀😀

I think this also a hostage situation, using her cargo as a means of forcing negotiations to put in their favor.

Um, no, pay your bill or don't get your vehicle no one cares what you got in there... you PAY THE BILL or nothing is released. SIMPLE. IDK of any location that lets you walk out with out paying.

Yeah , that's not how that works at all

But 500k+ for the truck, 1k a month for insurance, etc is not? How is that tractor worth over 100k? Since we are judging prices now.

Apples and oranges.

More like apples and bolts. Your running around for dick hauling shit... where as these trucks sit likely for days.

Commodity rate is nowhere near the same thing..the insurance and liability costs alone are about 7.3 times higher and truck cost is just about 10 times the cost difference

Strangely when you check the bill at 1:54 it lists Heavy Duty Rollover.

learn to read it says heavy duty towing charge...

Matt Lane it’s says heavy duty tow charge 6 times and heavy duty roll over once. With each of those is a fuel surcharge. Why is there roll over at all and why is there 6 tow charges? Did they have to pay for all the vehicles in the accident?

Matt Lane check the third line. Something is wrong with this bill.

​@@mattlane2282 hey learn to read you dumbo😂 come over to germany i will give you english lessons. And if you get rude again i will smack you 😂.

matt Hansen I once got charged tow bill for driving my rig 2 blocks over to their yard. I drove it. When I saw this ladies truck, other than smashed hood, I didn't see why the truck wouldn't have moved under its own power.

Ya bidding on the road and how often accidents happen.

Mr. BlueCollar thats what i was thinking, it looks like they charged for each wrecker they had on the scene

they most likely settled

Mr. BlueCollar The truck was not even rolled over and they were charged for that as well!

spoda81 Yeah and Gasper and Rizzo Trash hauler owners got busted for bribes in a pay to play scheme. It's been in the News for a long while . 10k for 4 miles smh..

NJ turnpike...hoime of the $750 trailer tire LOL

you know property costs money, you don't want to be charged a storage fee, get your vehicle OUT... seems simple enough... you can expect towing prices to go up as well as trucks costs, labor costs both go up and accidents / break downs go down.

Was it fully loaded and stored overnight in their lot? In Detroit? Too much variables to be an accurate comparison.

gerble36 Yeah you're right.... that overnight parking would definitely add $10,000.

LOL yep okay, the waiting fee here for a med truck is 175/hour a heavy is not even leaving the lot for under $500 and accident like that on a major highway... oh baby... + a bid highway. Ya someone really charged 250 for a 500k truck to come out.

You are a liar no heavy duty truck will do that for 250.

@@trentonhughes7273 he never said the year

Not saying it didn't happen, but how does a SUV have a trunk?

jd rancho are you stupid a sebring is a fucking car

Can't argue with your astute assessment. Misread it as the Navigator being hit and rifled thru by the tow company. I am chastised and beg the internet's forgiveness.

Interesting. I wonder if there might be a federal angle.

this is youtube kid, your takes alot less time to type than you're and all you prove is you KNOW what I mean anyway. No one is going to bring suit and the suit would be as said over the validity of the contract nothing to do with that the OP said about it being illegal to block a road and monopolize a job site. Once the suit (never gona happen) is brought up... the cops will say it is a safety and speed issue, they only want 1 company working the scene.

+Matt Lane You;re right, Gramps. For the lady affected by the tow, this is water under the dam. My interest was in the federal angle, the fact that this is happening on a stretch of road that is a designated part of the US interstate highway system. Any time the Feds are involved, the rules (Davis-Bacon Act, WMB contracting, minority workforce participation, Affirmative Action, TWIC certification et al.) change. That means a challenge to the existing contract with an eye towards compliance with US law cannot be dismissed out of hand. I understand you're busy and can't spend all day typing KZfaq comments, so I'll give you a pass on the spelling. Just promise you know the difference between 'their', 'they're', and 'there' and will use them correctly the next time you post anywhere online. You simply HAVE to take the time to get it right.

jd rancho gramps is all I saw pup

Matt Lane unless you are fifty don't call me kid we the people don't have a contract to travel on a road we built got it good 😊 read your bill of rights I've seen it personally in person been to congress also

you PAY for the contract... your bid, if someone else wants the contract, get the trucks, the drivers, the response time and the money to bid it.

Or, maybe jackass, to tow on that road you must win a bid... (more overhead now) you likely must have X number of trucks ready and available 24/7 in X min of getting called out... I know the 3500$ tow company has no contract costs... and may or may not even have enough trucks to win the contract... most costs = more charge on the bill... simple. you want the road closed forever, go with your way, if you have AAA around here and the AAA contracted company is going to take over 30min and your in anyway blocking the road (this is for non contract roads) your getting the next on the list called out. They aint waiting 1 hour for your AAA truck to get there... same shit goes here. Don't like it, tell the state to stop making companies PAY to work a road.

Matt Lane, You just gave up this debate before you even started due to your unprofessional and unintelligent name calling. A difference of opinion with you does not constitute a lack of intelligence on any person's part. On your point of longer wait times and increased traffic jams, there is no reason why a person or business who has a contract with a particular tow company should not be able to use the services of that company, as long as they are timely. After all, the truck owner's tow truck showed up at about the same time as the police department's chosen company. So, your idea of longer wait times goes right out of the window. There is nothing wrong with having more than one company allowed to tow their client's vehicles away from a major accident scene. A little competition is just what a capitalist society such as ours is all about. What is described in this video is pure unadulterated government corruption which resulted in a three times higher tow price for the unfortunate accident victim. No government agency has the right to bar a competent and qualified business from operating in their field of expertise just to favor a business that is in bed with the politicians who happen to be in office at the time. There has to be a genuine reason to allow only one contractor to do business with the public in a particular location. An example of such a situation would be the concession stand at a public park. A tow company is not one of them. In this case, there would have been absolutely no harm in allowing the particular trucking company's chosen tow vehicle to tow their truck. It would have caused zero delay. The news crew here in this video have done a great job proving that Boulevard and Trumbull Towing has been involved in all sorts of dirty dealings with various political entities. This is not simply a case of having higher costs due to meeting contract requirements. A thee times higher price than one's competent competitors is never justifiable.

BLah blah blah you gave up on this debate when you said "There is only one explanation and that is corruption." You have an opinion I have facts from being around the biz. You have what like 7 trucks there that need to be towed. Okay great now the cops are running around asking each driver who is coming, how long, eta. If the first trucks tow company is 35 min out while the company behind his is 10min out... and another truck does not know if the company has a truck available... it becomes chaos... now if someone sends out one heavy to tow it and finds out they need 2, we are waiting now for a second dispatch because the person in the accident never know what they need or how bad the vehicle is. You just turned a, hook a leave into a circus of 4 companies all trying to sort out who is taking what. This happens with CARS when you get someone who does not know how to tow, I've seen operates from other companies LOAD cars because they were tired of waiting. Not the best plan as someone can try to pass the buck now saying XYZ from company Y did the damage but on roll overs etc... who cares. That on the scale of tractor trailers LOL. Not to mention you have no idea who is doing what, it becomes dangerous, a decent company doing heavy recovery everyone knows there part and they may even have headsets on for communication. Again vs a circus of 4 companies all with different ETAs... Ya you have a reason to have ONE company cover the scene... you cry about 3x the price, yet for all we know that ONE person has 1 heavy... where this company may have 6... and that ONE heavy is not around all the time where as the contracted company has trucks on standby 24/7 different level of service DIFFERENT PRICE. A "decent" auto accident here is 1k billed out, roll over depending on how long it sits 2-3k... and before you cry, that's a fair rate, when you get fucked its 5-6-7k for a REGULAR CAR... of course you have a 20 min response time from the time you get the call till on scene... and your allowed to miss 3 calls a year before being tossed off the rotation. Know what this means... you have a truck sitting and a driver on call 24/7/ 365 (you don't get any days off) JUST to go get a police accident. You are allowed customer request (and that is how the pay offs work here) if the ETA of the company is generally over 30min for a minor accident or over 20 for a road closed... your getting next off the list (if things work as they should) and even with that 20min time, the cops will call and ask to expedite!, generally if the road is closed OR if the vehicle must be stabilized before EMS/FIRE can help. Oh btw this is all unbid, the local highway you bid... I think its like 250k a year (idk how they even make money off that) you must have at LEAST 3 trucks (only light/med not heavy as its a passenger car only highway) and you are on call 24/7 with 3 trucks. Yep that's cheap right to have 3 vehicles on call 24/7 with a response time, and 250k off the top... before you say the bidding is bullshit (yep I'm with you on that) other locations put you on for X time, and rotate that way again ONE COMPANY at a time so it is not chaos at the scene... You again need X number of trucks on call. It is a money intensive business. Oh man and if bad weather hits... I've seen calls from am hour away road side trying to get tows... then... when its sunny 70f weather for 2 weeks the phone won't ring for PDAA or road side. It's worse with heavies... Half the time when a med duty truck calls around asking for a tow (idk about heavy)... give you a recent example "I just slid off the driveway in the mud and need to be towed out" head out for a WINCH OUT... turns into call the local heavy company, call the cops, truck is against a sign, property damage, need 2 trucks to pull him out with out causing more damage to private property sign. SAME thing is gona happen on major highways... your gona call in your company for a tow... say XYZ, they show up with 1 truck... find out they need 2... vs one company comes with all hands on deck... Also alot of the time when you get calls for "accidents" the people are trying to NOT call the cops as it is a PDAA... ya its easier in that case for TIME reasons to have one company on hand. It will take LESS TIME no matter how you slice it to have company doing clean up. It is also MUCH safer as everyone knows whats going on and know each other as they work together vs 4 random companies all trying to work around each other.

Matt Lane, Thank you for confirming what I suspected! It seemed a rational assumption from your angry first response that you are "in the business." Your second response improves upon your first response due to no name calling. You do, however, declare that I have given up on the debate by declaring that "there is only one explanation and that is corruption." I stand by my word. If you view the entire video again, you will find that the particular towing company and the involved police chief have both been investigated for corruption. There is ample evidence to suggest that this is the case. While all of your other explanations make sense for some price variation, they don't explain a three times variation nor do they justify chasing away a heavy tow truck which is all ready to tow a broken heavy vehicle on a technicality alone. At all accident scenes of this magnitude, the police will interview every conscious victim. There is no reason why tow trucks of appropriate size and purpose cannot be dispatched by the police to tow vehicles. You stated that the police already do have companies on call 24/7/365. How could it hurt to call a victim's chosen company if they are local and available at the same time as the police favorite? If a conscious driver states that they already have a properly qualified truck on the way with a reasonable ETA, there is no reason to bar that truck upon arrival. In this day and age of cell phones, and advanced computers, there is no reason other than greed and desperation for multiple uninvited tow trucks to race to the scene of a small crash. With all of our advanced applications available, there is no reason why some form of local crowd sourcing application cannot be applied to the local tow companies so that they do not have to purchase excessive over capacity. I am not suggesting that a huge and chaotic collision scene should have to wait for one tow truck to pull the lead vehicle out due to customer choice, even as the chosen contractor has equipment available. I am stating that as long as a customer's tow shows up in order, as an American citizen, they have every right to make their choice. All of the logistical points you demonstrate make sense, Matt Lane. You won't catch any disagreement from me there. The logistical points alone do not prove by themselves that it is impossible or even impractical to have more than one contractor to show up with equipment to tow broken vehicles away from a collision scene. If there are six broken vehicles at a scene, the police will know within a minute or two which drivers are conscious, and what size tow truck(s) is/are needed for each vehicle. The police will also know if any driver has already selected a local tow company. If a driver has called their own contractor, the police only need confirm an ETA and location with that contractor to determine if that ETA is acceptable. The police can then assign contracted towing companies for those who don't have a selected contractor. It is the police who ultimately direct heavy rescue, ambulance, and tow vehicles once they arrive at a scene. There is no reason why a locality cannot have multiple tow companies of various sized and purposes on call on rotation so that everybody gets some business, reasonable breaks, and no requirement to have excessive overcapacity. If a locality insists on having one tow company on call 24/7/365, they might as well have the local government own all of the tow equipment and have all of the operators on the public payroll, especially if it legitimately costs three times normal for a tow, which is doubtfull in just about any normal case. The bottom line here is that if the highway tow business is distributed between multiple tow companies in an intelligent and organized manner, everybody will earn a decent living without having to have excessive overcapacity and workers on overtime. Companies will maximize equipment use with normal commercial towing plus emergency highway towing. As an added plus, conscious accident victims will be able to exercise choice if they wish. If you look at the responses here to this video, and the news report as well, you will see that the public does not see things your way, Matt Lane. The public only sees that a business owner was denied his choice of tow companies by the police, whose chief has been proven to have been involved in a series of conflicts of interest with his chosen tow company. Since any private business owner wants good public relations, it stands to reason that tow truck operators want to avoid this sort of bad press at all costs. It is far better to address the logistical problems and avoid public backlash. The public, as guided by the press, sees only the corrupt police chief being paid off by the corrupt tow company owner. There is a companion video to that effect which provides ample evidence that Boulevard and Trumbull has been involved in some very shady dealings with more than one government official. That is why I stand by my statement that the only explanation for this outrageous pricing difference depicted here is corruption.

The problem with that is, she can't. The will hold it until you pay them first. And if she doesn't, then they can sell and scrap it for everything they can get off of it.

I'd say they knew she had valuable cargo and held it hostage knowing if they dealt with a man. Someone would have lost their teeth that day and went to court.

Do you have pockets at least six figures deep? To spend on a law suit you are most likely to lose?

I just lost my entire post.:) So to recap, in brief: You are confusing pro bono with contingency fee. A lawyer will only take a contingency-fee case if there is a very good chance of collecting on a substantial judgment, which is not the case if you sue the state. They will defend the case until the end of days or until your money runs out, whichever happens sooner. Companies move or shut down every day for any number of reasons. It won't bother the state at all and they will never draw a connection between that and an excessive tow bill.

Your gona sue the state (costing likely well past 6 figures) taking years and years for the state to say, any company can come and bid the road and they have a contract with the company in order to keep the road and and opened as quickly as possible.

kdw75 Just wondering where are you from? Thanx! 😃