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We Break Down The Stories Shaping Towing · Towing News Now

0:20
SPEAKER_02: We have two hosts.
0:21
SPEAKER_02: One of them has been in the fifth 40 years.
0:26
SPEAKER_02: The other says charming life of many years, who also is the general manager of product supply.
0:33
SPEAKER_02: No other than West and April Wilburn.
0:37
SPEAKER_02: West and April, I turn it over to you.
0:40
SPEAKER_07: Well, DJ, as always, I appreciate that warm introduction and everything you've done to help this podcast.
0:47
SPEAKER_07: Here today on a bright summer day.
0:56
SPEAKER_07: DJ, how are you doing today?
0:59
SPEAKER_02: Oh, doing excellent.
1:01
SPEAKER_02: And I agree with you, Wes.
1:03
SPEAKER_02: The weather here in the Atlanta market is excellent.
1:08
SPEAKER_02: Um for myself and for our number one guy, Chuck Camp, who does all the making sure everybody sounds good on this podcast.
1:22
SPEAKER_02: The weather here is excellent.
1:24
SPEAKER_02: It's excellent in the Atlanta market area.
1:28
SPEAKER_07: And how are you feeling?
1:30
SPEAKER_02: I'm feeling great.
1:31
SPEAKER_02: I r I really am feeling good.
1:33
SPEAKER_02: I'm taking all my medication.
1:36
SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm doing everything the doctors tell me to do.
1:40
SPEAKER_02: And uh I'm getting forward, you know, uh over the weekend I get the chance to see my grandchildren.
1:48
SPEAKER_02: So my grandchildren are heading over this way later uh tonight, so it's gonna be good.
1:55
SPEAKER_07: Well, good, that's good to hear.
1:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:59
SPEAKER_07: April, how are you doing?
2:01
SPEAKER_04: Um I'm doing pretty good here.
2:03
SPEAKER_04: I'm having a little bit harder time with the weather than um than DJ and Chuck is because I feel like it's a little on the oppressive side.
2:10
SPEAKER_04: Uh, but it's gonna break soon.
2:12
SPEAKER_04: It's in the middle part of August.
2:14
SPEAKER_04: We'll start having those cooler nights, but um just sitting here getting ready for whatever's gonna come in the next month or two and producing this podcast is it's a labor of love, let me tell you.
2:26
SPEAKER_07: Well, it is the middle of August.
2:28
SPEAKER_07: And one of the things that's coming in in the next couple weeks, if it hasn't already started in your area, school is back in session.
2:35
SPEAKER_07: So everybody involved actively in the selling industry, and we have a lot of over-the-road truckers from what I understand in our ranks too.
2:45
SPEAKER_07: And and just driving a passenger vehicle on city streets, remember kids are getting into a new schedule, they might be confused.
2:54
SPEAKER_07: School buses that are might slash in that army need absolute respect.
3:00
SPEAKER_07: So remind your operators that school's in session and uh watch out for the young ones.
3:05
SPEAKER_04: And if there's ever a time to do the speed limit, there there is a time to do it.
3:11
SPEAKER_04: That twenty-five mile per hour or fifteen mile per hour speed limit is there for a reason.
3:15
SPEAKER_07: The school zone you're talking about?
3:17
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
3:20
SPEAKER_07: Absolutely.
3:21
SPEAKER_07: So that is one thing that's happening, and before you know it will as we talk about the heat today, before you know it, we'll be talking about the coldness.
3:29
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I can't I can't wait to complain about how cold it is outside, and I can't wait for the heat.
3:34
SPEAKER_04: It has been warm.
3:36
SPEAKER_07: It has been warm.
3:37
SPEAKER_07: You know what else has been warm and it's been almost hot really is uh the air fitting kit.
3:43
SPEAKER_07: And the new improved kit went out of load pieces.
3:48
SPEAKER_07: Uh boy, that's taking a bunch of my time this week just keeping up to that.
3:51
SPEAKER_07: I want to thank everybody that's responded to that uh special offer with the complete kit and also with the new uh electronic right parking tool for the ballroads and internationals.
4:04
SPEAKER_07: So that's what kept us real busy this week.
4:08
SPEAKER_04: I think um selling it like hot cakes is very applicable to um these earth fitting kids that you've come up with and and the add-ons that you've come up with.
4:18
SPEAKER_07: And I'm just a lot of praise for April, but she has also put in a lot of effort at the website.
4:24
SPEAKER_07: Not only with credits, which we'll talk about that in a minute, but also updating the state of the sewing industry report that you're working.
4:36
SPEAKER_04: Yep, I am uh continuously adding on to that.
4:39
SPEAKER_04: I'm always getting information and it updates regularly.
4:43
SPEAKER_04: So if you've already asked for that, it should update it automatically for you.
4:48
SPEAKER_04: But if it doesn't, just give me a call here at 910 7479000 or email me at uh if email me at info at American Tone Recovery Institute.org.
4:59
SPEAKER_07: So we have been paying a lot of attention to the website.
5:02
SPEAKER_07: That is the main thing that we're doing now.
5:05
SPEAKER_07: Um putting one of the things we've worked on is putting packages together.
5:10
SPEAKER_07: We've had some good luck with some of the chain packages.
5:13
SPEAKER_07: We also put a recovery scrap package for rotating together.
5:17
SPEAKER_07: And first of all, any of these packages, we some of them we sell sometimes and people take exactly what's in that package, but many times we modify it a little bit this way or that way to fit what the customer wants.
5:30
SPEAKER_07: We don't want to tell the customer what they we think they need.
5:34
SPEAKER_07: We want to help them get what they think they want, they want need.
5:37
SPEAKER_07: But here's a rip rotator recovery scrap package that I've come up with.
5:43
SPEAKER_07: Um we've done a couple different ways.
5:46
SPEAKER_07: The one we just did and got all priced out and everything is an eight-inch.
5:50
SPEAKER_07: We can also offer it in a 12-inch wide situation.
5:54
SPEAKER_07: This first one I'm gonna focus and tell you folks about today is gonna be all an eight-inch.
5:59
SPEAKER_07: Eight-inch tooth wide, nineteen thousand working loads, uh 19,200, I believe.
6:07
SPEAKER_07: Does real well with a five-inch web chapel that's graded at 19,000?
6:12
SPEAKER_07: It's rating just a couple hundred pounds off each other.
6:15
SPEAKER_07: And also the eye of that eight inch tooth wide, ending up being four inches wide, fits in a pin and a five-inch web chapel, real nice.
6:26
SPEAKER_07: So the three pairs of straps for uh the modern day rotator does the average recovery work.
6:33
SPEAKER_07: It doesn't average exactly, but in my mind, a set of twelve butters, a set of sixteens, and a set of twenties.
6:44
SPEAKER_07: Put shackles on all all six of the yeah, three all the put on all six of the straps.
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SPEAKER_07: So you can pull on all of them at different times.
6:56
SPEAKER_07: Put wear pads, two wear pads, for each pair of straps, four foot long wear pad.
7:04
SPEAKER_07: On the shackles on the bottom, I like to put a graph book and a length of chain to make them easy to hook.
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SPEAKER_07: The top, you don't need that.
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SPEAKER_07: You got three shackles that have grab books and chains, short-legged chain on them.
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SPEAKER_07: Three shackles that are just plenty.
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SPEAKER_04: And for a pack of deal, all that adds up to For the eight-inch recovery kit trap package, regular price was thir three thousand nine hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifty-seven cents.
7:31
SPEAKER_04: And the special price is three thousand four hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seventy-one cent.
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SPEAKER_04: And then there's a special deal price of for the twelve inch recovery strap kit.
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SPEAKER_04: The regular price is four thousand eight hundred and fourteen dollars and ninety-five cents.
7:49
SPEAKER_04: And the special price is four thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety-five cents.
7:54
SPEAKER_04: And this just is from Wes Wilburn.
7:56
SPEAKER_04: He said if you call and order this drop recovery kit from us, you get an additional hundred dollars off per package.
8:04
SPEAKER_04: If you had to mention the podcast, we get an additional hundred dollars off.
8:08
SPEAKER_04: It's a good deal.
8:10
SPEAKER_07: So that's just one of the many packages.
8:12
SPEAKER_07: Of course, we've done some chain packages, shackle packages, etc.
8:17
SPEAKER_07: Of course we saw all the pieces individually too.
8:20
SPEAKER_07: Showing equipment direct.com for all this information can be found.
8:27
SPEAKER_04: Um, well, for that recovery strap package, you we saw six web shackles.
8:33
SPEAKER_04: Three of them are just the web shackles, and three of them have the grab hook with the chain.
8:38
SPEAKER_04: How does the chain and the grab hook benefit?
8:41
SPEAKER_07: Just makes it easier to connect it up to something, and it also makes it stronger to bend the chain around the shackle, which is such a tight diameter that shackles only an inch and a quarter or an inch and an eighth, I believe.
8:54
SPEAKER_07: And hasn't it changed and we've been around anything less than three inches?
8:58
SPEAKER_07: So it just helps solve that diameter, the diameter ratio problem.
9:03
SPEAKER_04: That's a question I've had asked whenever somebody's calling in their ordering and we're going over the kit.
9:08
SPEAKER_04: So that's some good information.
9:10
SPEAKER_04: All right.
9:11
SPEAKER_04: I think we're about to go.
9:14
SPEAKER_02: So can I ask this?
9:15
SPEAKER_02: Now I know they go to towing equipmentdirect.com, but if they have a question, can they dial the 910-7479000?
9:29
SPEAKER_04: Yes, they could definitely dial that number and um either probably get me very likely.
9:34
SPEAKER_04: Uh, but I have a good park salesman.
9:36
SPEAKER_04: His name is Wes Wilburn, so he's here to help with a lot of the technical questions.
9:41
SPEAKER_07: We answer this question on the spot.
9:44
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, we do we do answer them on the spot.
9:47
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
9:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because a lot of times somebody might have a question, and then if they have a question, then I want them to write down the number right underneath touring equipmentdirect.com.
10:00
SPEAKER_02: Just put down 910-747-9000.
10:06
SPEAKER_02: If you have any question or concern, and they'll answer it on the spot.
10:12
SPEAKER_02: Wes Wilburn is the answer man.
10:16
SPEAKER_04: Usually.
10:18
SPEAKER_02: Well, he is.
10:20
SPEAKER_02: He he has the information because he has uh over 40 years in the industry, so he's he knows.
10:28
SPEAKER_07: All right.
10:31
SPEAKER_07: So I had an off minutes in my life.
10:34
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SPEAKER_05: Anyway, I'll let it be right back.
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13:49
SPEAKER_06: Thanks, DJ.
13:50
SPEAKER_06: I certainly appreciate everything.
13:54
SPEAKER_06: So we got a mixed bag of uh stories.
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SPEAKER_07: The first one is coming to us out of Philadelphia.
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SPEAKER_07: And I I think that that the Philadelphia Parking Authority has a TV show where you can actually see what they do.
14:08
SPEAKER_07: I think this is because this article is written about it.
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SPEAKER_07: It doesn't make it perfectly clear.
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SPEAKER_07: The one thing I would think though is numbers, they're so impressive numbers about talking about selling 15 cars in a day.
14:20
SPEAKER_07: I wonder how many trucks they have and how many employees.
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SPEAKER_07: Article was about having a backup of abandoned cars on City Street after the pandemic.
14:39
SPEAKER_07: And they each driver had to sell six cars a day for weeks to get the backlog caught up.
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SPEAKER_07: They talk about six car selling six cars a day, like it was a huge ordeal.
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SPEAKER_07: So this one, but it was I think it was 15 April 30 when she reads the article.
14:56
SPEAKER_07: But uh I again I just wonder how many trucks they have if working, how many employees.
15:02
SPEAKER_07: April tells what's going on in Philadelphia.
15:05
SPEAKER_04: Would the good one on your point about what you were saying with um you wonder how much the Axios said this article they they Axios had the police declined to provide Axios with the current average wait time for officers to investigate an abandoned vehicle complaint.
15:21
SPEAKER_04: So that tells you how forthright they were being.
15:24
SPEAKER_04: But this article talks about the city of Philadelphia police towing cars.
15:30
SPEAKER_04: And I guess up to as of last week, Philly has still has roughly 7,000 open 311 service requests that is uh catch-all phone number for you to call, apparently for trash removal, towing abandoned cars and and things like that.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so uh from what I understand, it's a high request and so it's yeah, I probably uh Philadelphia has has filed at least eighty eight thousand three hundred and fifty complaints this year.
16:01
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, filed at least three eight thousand three hundred and fifty complaints this year about deserted autos um as of last week.
16:09
SPEAKER_04: That makes it the second most requested service that for that 311 number.
16:15
SPEAKER_07: Uh yes requested service and people water.
16:22
SPEAKER_04: That's correct.
16:23
SPEAKER_04: They they said rubbish, but trash, yes.
16:26
SPEAKER_04: Flashback, last year police towed 5,750 abandoned vehicles, averaged I averaged out about 15.75 per day.
16:35
SPEAKER_04: If you go to the 15 average they were talking about.
16:38
SPEAKER_04: I I would love to also know how many trucks how many trucks they have to met it to it.
16:45
SPEAKER_04: 2024 they did 5900, which is about 16 per day.
16:50
SPEAKER_04: 2023 they did sixty four hundred.
16:53
SPEAKER_04: That looks like they're all time high in the last few years.
16:56
SPEAKER_04: Um but I bet I guess abandoned auto has become a significant issue during the uh during and after the phenomenon, I doubt.
17:04
SPEAKER_04: I mean the pandemic pandemic, I doubt if it's gotten worse since epidemic.
17:09
SPEAKER_04: It I think it's just a reason for the city of Philadelphia to say we're gonna get our guys on it and not hire the professionals.
17:18
SPEAKER_07: Well, we don't no, we don't know.
17:19
SPEAKER_07: I'm I'm making an assumption.
17:21
SPEAKER_07: We don't know if private contractors aren't handled.
17:24
SPEAKER_07: Anybody that does know that to listen to this podcast, give us a call or send me a text or an email or something.
17:32
SPEAKER_07: You know, it was the parking authority or private contractors doing this work.
17:37
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, there is one little point in here where it says um what's their thing?
17:44
SPEAKER_04: The the mayor trust says that under under Parker, which is which is what that's called, the department has put more people on the problem and work to target abandoned vehicles more efficiently.
17:58
SPEAKER_04: That includes hiring more tow truck drivers.
18:01
SPEAKER_04: And um don't know if that means private or more Philadelphia employees.
18:08
SPEAKER_06: Right.
18:09
SPEAKER_04: So that is the question.
18:14
SPEAKER_04: All right.
18:14
SPEAKER_04: Uh yeah, we would love to hear from you if you know anything about that one.
18:19
SPEAKER_04: Uh the next one comes from Lafayette, Indiana.
18:24
SPEAKER_07: And this is where we had too far outside of Indianapolis.
18:28
SPEAKER_07: I did a school there five, five, six, seven years ago.
18:32
SPEAKER_07: Small town America has got a Hyundai trailer factory and some other kind of factory.
18:39
SPEAKER_07: A little downtown section to it, and that's it.
18:41
SPEAKER_07: It's a it's small town America, it really is.
18:46
SPEAKER_04: Well, August the 5th, if Sicano, I guess I'm saying that Rate West would probably know better than me, County Sheriff's Deputies were dispatched to the 100 block of South uh 550 East after receiving a report that shots had been fired.
19:04
SPEAKER_04: According to court documents, two truck drivers told deputies at the scene that a man identified as Mark Crick was the person who sh who fired the shots.
19:16
SPEAKER_04: The driver said they went to the location to pick up a vehicle that was owned by one of the relatives of Crick who were who was admitting the car to an auction site.
19:27
SPEAKER_04: While the drivers were trying to decide how to transport the vehicle, they said that Crick came outside with the shotgun, pointed at them, and fired a shot.
19:38
SPEAKER_04: Crick then reportedly went back inside the residence with the shotgun and the drivers called the police.
19:45
SPEAKER_04: The family member qu corroborated the driver's story about Crick pointing a gun in their direction and firing a shot, which the relative said was shot into the ground.
19:56
SPEAKER_04: Uh they found the gun, they found the shotgun shell case in front of the house.
20:02
SPEAKER_04: Upon speaking with Crick, that would be to say he was he said he was upset that his family member was having two vehicles towed, and they previously argue about that.
20:11
SPEAKER_04: During that argument, Crick said the said he told his family member that if a tow truck arrived, he would come out with a firearm and fire a running shot.
20:22
SPEAKER_04: I think they call that intent a law and order less.
20:25
SPEAKER_04: What do you think?
20:26
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I guess so.
20:27
SPEAKER_04: They called that something, laying away or something.
20:30
SPEAKER_04: Something.
20:31
SPEAKER_04: Uh Crick allegedly said when he saw the tow truck drivers, he retrieved his 12 gauge pump action shotgun and walked outside.
20:40
SPEAKER_04: Court documents say Crick allegedly admitted that he looked down the site of the shotgun and pointed the shotgun at both drivers.
20:51
SPEAKER_07: The car is being donated by a family member.
20:54
SPEAKER_07: And he decided to defend it with fire.
20:57
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
20:58
SPEAKER_04: Yep, he's being held at the uh Kipicano County Jail on a$2,500 bond.
21:05
SPEAKER_04: He has a he has a jury trial date set for January 27, 2027.
21:10
SPEAKER_04: So that's a little bit of time for him to sit in there and wait.
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SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
21:16
SPEAKER_04: That kind of leads us into um this video we're going to listen to about another tow truck operator, and this gentleman actually got shot.
21:26
SPEAKER_12: Thank you for staying up late with us.
22:00
SPEAKER_11: The incident happened this past Wednesday at 4 30 in the morning on Markland Drive.
22:04
SPEAKER_14: And there was a vehicle that was parked over multiple spots, and so he was, you know, in violation.
22:09
SPEAKER_11: But as Bobby was getting ready to tow the car, he says 67-year-old Victor Crosby came out and confronted him.
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SPEAKER_14: Had everything hooked up and um gentleman came out with a you know his pit bull and is holding his gun, pointing it at me.
22:22
SPEAKER_11: The operator says he was not going to discuss the matter as long as he was being threatened.
22:26
SPEAKER_11: And so as he was driving away, he heard shots.
22:30
SPEAKER_14: I didn't know how much blood there was.
22:32
SPEAKER_14: I I didn't reach back and touch anything.
22:34
SPEAKER_14: Um but it I mean it was a lot of pain.
22:36
SPEAKER_14: So yeah, and it started to burn about halfway to the hospital.
22:39
SPEAKER_14: So I knew it was definitely a gunshot.
22:41
SPEAKER_11: So police arrested Crosby and charged him with discharging a weapon into occupied property and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
22:50
SPEAKER_11: He pleaded guilty to a drug charge back in 1992.
22:53
SPEAKER_14: Yep, it's sore and still hurts.
22:55
SPEAKER_14: Yeah.
22:56
SPEAKER_11: You gonna keep doing what you're doing?
22:57
SPEAKER_14: Oh yeah, going to work tonight.
23:01
SPEAKER_11: As you can see, Bobby is okay, but doctors say he is very lucky because that bullet came very close to his spine.
23:08
SPEAKER_11: At the law enforcement center, Glint Counts, Channel 9, Eyewitness News.
23:30
SPEAKER_04: That he's okay and he's good to go.
23:32
SPEAKER_04: The guy is um I think he's awaiting trial.
23:35
SPEAKER_04: He's in Joe, he's awaiting trial.
23:37
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
23:38
SPEAKER_04: But it's a the miracle because that he was shot in the back.
23:41
SPEAKER_04: It was a miracle that it didn't hit any major arteries.
23:45
SPEAKER_04: That's that's the gist of it, is that it was a miracle.
23:48
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
23:49
SPEAKER_04: All right.
23:50
SPEAKER_04: This next story comes to us from Palo Alto, California.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
24:01
SPEAKER_04: It is a very and and he won because he fought the good fight and didn't let it and just didn't give up.
24:07
SPEAKER_04: That's that's why he won.
24:09
SPEAKER_04: Uh in Santa Clara uh Santa Clara County, the San Francisco Bay Area, there was a tow industry that began January the 6th after fourth Olaf Peterson's daughter's 1994 for Mustang was impounded by Palo Alto police from a city parking garage because of a DMV registration issue.
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SPEAKER_04: Peterson paid the 494 to recover the vehicle.
24:35
SPEAKER_04: The tow yard owner wrote later complained that Peters Peterson allegedly repeatedly mentioned his position on Palo Alfred's planning and transportation commission, got special treatment, a discount, and suggested that he could change the rules.
24:53
SPEAKER_04: Peterson disputed that characterization.
24:55
SPEAKER_04: The city subsequently hired an outside attorney to investigate.
25:00
SPEAKER_04: So here's an example of as we said in the beginning, the the the tow operator in the tow company just not laying down and taking it because it was a public official saying it because it it could be easily just tubed into it.
25:14
SPEAKER_04: But the great part of this is, or the horrible part of this is, is they cost the city of Alabama fifty thousand dollars to hire an attorney.
25:22
SPEAKER_04: Fifty thousand dollars.
25:24
SPEAKER_04: That's uh that's the crazy part.
25:32
SPEAKER_02: For the city to pay that much money, I wonder if he belonged to the city council.
25:40
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he was on the on the plan.
25:42
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
25:44
SPEAKER_04: But yeah, yeah.
25:51
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and and that's a real nice part of California too though.
25:56
SPEAKER_02: April.
25:56
SPEAKER_02: It really is a gorgeous part of California.
26:00
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
26:02
SPEAKER_04: Alright, I think that brings us to our break, and I can't wait to come back to talk about the good news for the last segment.
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SPEAKER_02: You got it.
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SPEAKER_02: Let's take a fast break, and we'll be right back.
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SPEAKER_02: Of course, you're welcoming back once more to the Towing News Now podcast being produced at the Towing Equipment Direct.com studios.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay, without further ado, let me pass you on over to a 40-year veteran, Wes Wilburn.
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SPEAKER_07: Thanks, DJ.
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SPEAKER_07: Congratulations for Kevin.
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SPEAKER_07: And uh friend of the podcast for years with him and a friendly four.
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SPEAKER_06: Yeah, Kevin is a pretty good guy.
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SPEAKER_04: We've um had some good good conversations with him.
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SPEAKER_04: Our next story is about Yates Telling.
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SPEAKER_04: Yates Telling is 80 years in the telling business.
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SPEAKER_07: Great company out of Chattanooga to tell the years.
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SPEAKER_04: And thirty years after the torchwork was invented in Chattanooga, another local story began.
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SPEAKER_04: In 1946, a former chief mechanic named Lloyd R.
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SPEAKER_04: Yates opened a small repair shop on Highland Park Avenue.
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SPEAKER_04: Eighty years later, that shop is now Doug Yates Killing and Recovery, and three generations of Yates men have been honored inside the Hall of Fame.
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SPEAKER_04: Doug Yates Killing and Recovery has hit 80 years of business.
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SPEAKER_04: Four generations, same family, same standard since 1946.
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SPEAKER_04: This October, Hannon Yates joined his father and grandfather in the Killing Hall of Fame.
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SPEAKER_04: So congratulations to Doug Yates and um we've been that's that's a good organization.
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SPEAKER_04: That's a good outfit.
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SPEAKER_02: Right off it.
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SPEAKER_02: That's exactly right, April.
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SPEAKER_02: Right off the interstate.
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SPEAKER_04: Alright, this is a innovative this next story.
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SPEAKER_04: There's a video with it.
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SPEAKER_04: It's a very innovative thing.
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SPEAKER_04: Um actually that web is kind of done, and probably many people have done.
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SPEAKER_04: They've taken an old fire hose and wrapped it around chain.
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SPEAKER_04: The reason they're doing it is because it believe it or not, helps reduce um fires and forest fires.
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SPEAKER_04: That dragging that chain on that asphalt can create a spark.
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SPEAKER_04: And that little spark can create a fire.
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SPEAKER_04: That happens a lot, it happens a lot anywhere, but it happens a lot that part of the country, it seems like.
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SPEAKER_04: But let's all listen to this video together.
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SPEAKER_16: Well, a new pilot program's aiming to prevent human-caused wildfires.
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SPEAKER_16: The Keep Oregon Green Association and Oregon Department of Forestry fire prevention have created two chain covers made from recycled fire hoses.
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SPEAKER_16: The covers help keep chains from dragging on the road and sending sparks into dry grass.
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SPEAKER_16: ODF says vehicles are the second to leading cause of human-made fires.
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SPEAKER_13: This is like a product that's being used to remind people about wildfire prevention and how they can, you know, by simply making sure their chains are not dragging, it's it's a small action that can make a big difference.
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SPEAKER_16: 1,000 tow chain covers will be available at the Oregon State Fair until supplies run out.
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SPEAKER_04: It's um very, very innovative.
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SPEAKER_04: Um, and that's a good use of instead of until in one, they they decided to make good use out of it.
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SPEAKER_04: And we'll never know how many four fires it didn't, you know, that didn't happen to Caldeva, but question out of fires is actually chain dragging is not a good idea and I guess it's a solution to it.
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SPEAKER_07: Probably there would be more of a solution, but if you're not a change or not being across safety change and not cross, I think it's important to drag.
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SPEAKER_07: So I know last time I was on the West Coast, I know just how to use the safety chains, but not cross.
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SPEAKER_07: But anyway, that's a little cynical, but it is what it is.
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SPEAKER_04: All right.
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SPEAKER_04: This next one comes this was hardly ever is the tow truck driver on the news for a good reason.
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SPEAKER_04: And we finally found a story where this is a good reason.
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SPEAKER_04: This is a tow truck operator in Harden being interviewed with a reporter on the road for slowdown move over.
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SPEAKER_00: We're talking about the importance of moving over and slowing down when you see a car parked on the side of the highway.
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SPEAKER_00: We have some cars coming towards us, and it's not something that we parked on the side of the highway.
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SPEAKER_00: You can still see their memorial in three forks, which also honors three of their tow truck operators who have also been killed on the job since.
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SPEAKER_19: Maybe that would help.
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SPEAKER_19: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: Montana first introduced a move over law for emergency and roadside work vehicles in 2005.
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SPEAKER_00: But it wasn't until 2023 that the law was updated to require drivers to both float 20 miles below the speed limit and change lanes, or to slow to half the speed limit if unable to change lanes.
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SPEAKER_19: It's better to slow down for two seconds than not get to your destination at all.
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SPEAKER_00: Bellinger says many drivers still don't take this seriously.
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SPEAKER_00: Nationally, a 2025 AAA study shows one in three drivers don't move over or slow down when passing emergency vehicles.
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SPEAKER_19: They are not moving over.
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SPEAKER_19: They are not slowing down.
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SPEAKER_00: A chilling reminder to pay attention on the road.
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SPEAKER_19: We all have families that we want to go home to.
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SPEAKER_04: All the things that he said is very, very, very true.
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SPEAKER_04: People don't slow down and they don't move over.
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SPEAKER_04: I mean, it's just harder and harder to find somebody who does that on a on a routine basis.
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SPEAKER_04: All right, our last story comes out of Central Iowa towing.
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SPEAKER_04: They save a kitten.
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SPEAKER_04: This is my favorite story.
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SPEAKER_01: An Ames kitten has gone viral after a rescue effort on a dangerously hot day, had a pair of good Samaritans dismantling a car in a local drive-thru.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, hundreds of people want to adopt FICA.
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SPEAKER_01: It was another warning that scooters aimed.
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SPEAKER_01: That is until a car got stuck in their drive-thru, and the driver heard screen from inside her car.
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SPEAKER_01: On the back of her animal shelter after a round of vaccination, she still needs to be paid before she goes up for adoption.
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SPEAKER_01: There is a long list of people who would love to adopt her.
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SPEAKER_01: The shelter says, Well, FIGA is a hot commodity.
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SPEAKER_01: They do have plenty of other kittens that still also need to be adopted.
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SPEAKER_04: And at the front of that line for adopting that kitten was Jonathan McKnight of Mid-Iowa Town and his family.
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SPEAKER_04: They they got to take that little baby kitten home.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Ames is right out of Des Moines, Iowa.
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SPEAKER_02: It's just a little north of it.
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SPEAKER_02: And it's a nice, it's a farm town, but it's uh Ames, Iowa is a good place.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I think that uh West what's your important words for the rest for this episode?
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SPEAKER_05: Well, we thank our listeners.
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SPEAKER_05: Hope everybody has a great week.
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SPEAKER_05: Look forward to seeing you next week.
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SPEAKER_05: Be safe out there.