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  studio and we're back on the road.
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  All right, so now it's beginning the start of the Labor Day
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  weekend and it's nice out. It's going to be nice for I live
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  out anyway and I got trucker Mouth got some money so you can
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  have a good weekend. But all right, so I noticed
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  watching my podcast and I used to watch my podcast on YouTube
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  TV. You'll find it under trucker
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  mouth. Go to YouTube TV and search
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  trucker mouth and you know my podcasts will come up.
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  I used to watch YouTube TV, but since the asshole up around the
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  corner kicked me off of his YouTube, I can't do that
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  anymore. But I noticed by watching that
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  sometimes have a hard time understanding me when I'm
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  talking. So I'm going to try to talk
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  slower. Today's topic is predatory
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  towing. OK wrecker, OK wrecker, a
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  driver's paycheck. And I mean, you know, these guys
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  are ruthless out there. So let's get going with us.
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  Checkers hit by huge towing bills could soon catch a break.
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  Cater A lot of states are cracking down on this because
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  it's just just ridiculous. And, you know, you're out there
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  and you're in the crunch area. You're trying to find a place to
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  park. It's kind of hard sometimes.
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  A lot of places are are, you know, posted, you know, no truck
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  parking, no truck parking you it might be industrial park, big
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  Hughes industrial park, big wide roads, but it'll be boats, no
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  truck parking. Why?
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  I don't know why. So that's when these predatory
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  towing companies, I got some stories here, so listen to this.
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  So for many truckers, a tow just doesn't ruin your day.
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  You can eat up a paycheck. That's why a lot of states are
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  fighting back against this, praying on truckers.
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  My employee. From Connecticut to Utah,
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  lawmakers are passing new protection to stop bad actors
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  from cashing on drivers when they have no choice.
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  The LIDDA has led the push work on states to get fair towing
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  rules on the books. So there's a lot of people
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  trying to get this predatory towing, you know, hit them back.
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  Utah has approved new protection for, I'm going to read some of
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  what different states have did. So in Utah, the law clearly
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  separates recovery work from recovery towing.
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  It also requires commercial insurance policies to cover
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  recovery costs. So they want the commercial
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  insurance that the truck has to cover the recovery costs and not
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  the driver. And that's just great.
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  I mean, see what I did this week?
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  I did something different instead of writing everything
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  down. And a lot of times I can't read
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  my writing or understand what it means.
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  Sometimes I I typed, I got it printed out, I went to the
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  library. I don't have a printer yet.
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  Went to the library and printed a bunch.
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  Pick cost me $7.25 and I printed out a lot more than I probably
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  needed. But I can't do that all the
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  time. Sometimes come with a happy
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  meet. In between writing stuff down, I
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  want to do my research or getting it printed out.
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  Oh yeah. So 1/3 of recovery companies
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  proposing Republican Kathy Kristofferson, a Republican Leia
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  said nearly 1/3 of recovery companies must post a bond while
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  this disagreements are worked out and part of payment must be
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  made-up front. So to make these towing
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  companies, this is still Utah, post a bond.
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  You got to put the money up front to fight, you know, while
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  this what is being worked out, what is this agreement being
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  worked out? Towing companies that charge
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  more than their posted rates could lose their right to
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  collect payment. That's the Utah Trucking
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  Association supports the law, which takes effect May of 2027
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  Arizona in Arizona Arizona lawmakers are taking name at
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  predatory towing after many drivers were hit with outrageous
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  fees in Arizona here. So we got a bill HB23O5 would
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  create one set of towing rules for entire state cities and
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  counties will no longer be able to set their own towing rates
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  for vehicles removed from private property.
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  Towing companies would have to take photos of the vehicle or
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  video of the of violation and notify law enforcement within
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  one hour. So they got to take pictures now
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  in Arizona and notify law enforcement that they're going,
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  they're going to do that. OK, Arizona finally got a spot.
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  We're going to put them in the predatory tone in the state.
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  That bill right now is on the governor's desk at HB23O5 S
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  North Carolina and North Carolina, they say, is the Wild
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  West of towing. That there's been so many so
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  much so much unfair towing for drivers in North Carolina that
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  they call it the Wild West of of freaking towing.
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  One of the biggest changes since December 1st.
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  Tower Appliance can no longer in North Carolina.
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  They can no longer put a boot on a truck for for parking.
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  They were booting trucks. They must have big boots like
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  cars. I never got booted in my car or
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  nothing. Yeah, they can no longer boot a
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  truck. The laws protects valuable cargo
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  after a non essential or government order.
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  Tow companies must quickly return commercial cargo when a
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  driver or a cargo owner asks for it.
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  Now they're allowed to do a trailer swap if they impound.
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  If they tow your shit and you're in their impound a lot that that
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  you're allowed to swap trailers out so you can get your freight
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  as long as the trailer's no more than five years older than
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  original and in decent shape. Doug Morris is of OIDA director
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  of State Government Affairs, said most towing companies do
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  the job right. But he said a small number of
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  bad actors give the entire industry a black eye.
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  And that's pretty much what any within the industry.
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  Couple of bad actors give it a bad name.
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  So they were also in North Carolina.
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  They would license towing companies, and they would have a
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  cap for towing, storage, booting and cargo handling.
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  The group would also investigate public complaints.
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  So this is just so here, here we go with this.
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  So 1 driver's here, here, here's a story here.
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  One of the stories I was talking about one of the drivers 30
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  minutes over truck parking limit cost the driver $9000.
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  Nationwide truck parking shortage left drivers vulnerable
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  to people who take advantage of of situations. 1 driver's $9000
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  towing bill highlights the problem and another prayer to
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  our towing that's just terrible for a driver.
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  Truck driver is faced with two battles and looking for a place
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  to park. First the truck parking spot and
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  the second is the race against the clock.
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  You're going to have to drive 11 hours a day and you got that
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  meal DS once that 11 hour comes up, man, you got you got to you
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  got to shut down or I think the the truck will shut down.
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  Not sure how that worked. I'm pretty sure he didn't shut
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  down. The truckers are forced to stop
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  wherever whenever the clock went out.
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  Look, I just said so. Lack of truck parking is
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  starting to cost professional drivers money.
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  In addition, the more property owners charging for parking
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  spots, the more property owners are charging for parking spots
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  out there now that were once free.
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  Some towing companies are pouncing on trucks parked
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  illegal and charging massive fees.
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  Bastards, sneaky bastards at that you know, praying on on a
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  truck driver who's living out of a freaking walk in closet and
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  he's got that's just another thing that's just another thing
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  out there. Memphis, TN A1's towing was
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  ordered not to touch certain trucks after three trucking
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  companies sued their asses in north in in Charlotte, NC.
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  The state attorney general sued A1 and you know they were, they
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  were told not to touch Western Express and Birmingham AL based
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  church transportation. MHT and Birmingham AL's based
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  church transportation. So this A1's A1 and he, he's a
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  sneaky bastard right here. This guy here, this A1 towing
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  out out of out of Memphis for years.
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  For years drivers stopped at Memphis area have complained
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  about one infamous towing company practice of towing.
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  Towing it would be parked trucks A1's towing and hauling.
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  Although the name is nearly identical to sharded towing
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  company, the Memphis company is not related.
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  So that one that prick down there in Shard, it has name just
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  like app. But they're not, they're not the
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  same company. So the center in operation is
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  Colton Ahmad Kathy, owner of several companies, including S
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  Line and A1 Towing. This is the story here.
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  These these bastards here. So Colton Ahmad Kathy is the
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  owner of so including S Line and A1 Towing.
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  S Line is a company providing security and parking services.
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  So they walk these lots, make sure people in parked illegal.
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  They would direct A1's towing to boot or totally be parked trucks
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  and hold them for ransom. So see his, he has two
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  companies, he has the security for these lots and he's got A1
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  towing and they were annoying the security truck.
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  The security end of that of his companies.
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  Kathy's companies would would would set drivers up and call
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  A1. Trump companies claimed that
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  Kathy's companies territory lured and entrapped truck
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  drivers and would illegally harassed, intimidate, assault,
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  batter, hijack and or hold hostage trucks and truck drivers
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  until a ransom was paid. Harass, intimidate, assault,
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  batter, hijacked and or hold hostage trucks and truck drivers
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  until a ransom was paid. Ambassador esalon contracted
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  with gas stations, truck stops and paid parking lots frequented
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  by by truck drivers. So S line would either give the
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  appearance of open parking by felony to they didn't, they
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  didn't post the lots right this line.
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  They didn't post the lots and then the trucks will pull in
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  there and drive and leave wherever for an hour or whatever
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  the case may be. Go to sleep, then call A1 towing
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  up because that's the same company.
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  This line contract gas station trucks stop and paid parking
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  lots frequent by truck drivers. So then I would give the
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  appearance of open parking by family to post property as
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  private or off limits to truck parking.
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  In some cases A1's telling would go after illegally parked
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  trucks. A1's telling would go after
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  legally parked trucks in some cases.
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  Other cases about telling trucks despite the driver having paid
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  for the spot. So even though a driver paid for
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  a spot, they were still telling her towing their truck and
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  trailer away. Well, that's, that's something
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  there. So according to to the lawsuit,
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  anyone's towing would literally truck trucks and lots with their
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  vehicles or dismantle of a victim's truck.
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  Tow workers proceed to use force through intimidation,
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  bulletproof vests, guns and badges.
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  So these, so these guys, these security guys are walking around
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  tow workers. OK.
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  The tow workers are walk around bulletproof vests, guns and
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  badges. The tow workers are because
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  they're doing sneaky shit, people trying to stop them
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  walking, looking like cops trying to bodily harm or
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  outright assault and battery when towing a truck or demanding
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  up to thousands of dollars. He's towing companies are Oh,
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  and one example truck drive was booted at 5510.
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  He should be driving Memphis by anyone's towing.
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  This is in Memphis now. The driver was not given the
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  opportunity to pay or go before. He's not given the opportunity
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  to pay. The opportunity to pay.
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  The opportunity to pay. Here it goes.
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  I know you couldn't understand that, probably.
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  Or go before being towed. A violation city ordinance,
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  state law. After being instructed to stay
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  inside the truck, the driver called Memphis police who could
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  not do anything since the incident was on private
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  property. So the trucking company ended up
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  buying a 2 day parking through S line.
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  OK, that's the security that that this Cathy owns and the
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  same one owns that A1 Towing. So the truck company ended up
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  buying 2 day parking through S line so the driver could get
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  some rest in the sleeper berth. A1's telling employees then
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  begin honking horns and rocking the truck to keep the trucker
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  awake. This is the tow company.
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  This time Memphis Police told the tow workers to stop after
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  after police left, the harassment resumed.
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  I'll tell you what, this this a one out of Memphis.
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  Chuck em out. Don't like you?
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  He's putting a hammer down on you.
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  OK Chuck em out. Don't like you.
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  A 1 Kathy predatory towing on on drivers putting a hammer down
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  anymore next morning Trump coming out for the truck.
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  The next morning the truck coming out for 7500 hours to
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  release the truck which everyone's telling refused.
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  So this this this towing company refused to let the truck go and
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  then when they were out they were going to pay 7500 hours to
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  release the truck. After members, police and Shelby
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  County Sheriff's obviously determined nothing could be
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  done, the Tennessee Tennessee Highway Patrol stepped in and
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  got involved. Once they arrived, 2 employees
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  fled the scene. Highway Patrol left the truck
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  driver cut the boot off so they know they were sneaky bastards.
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  Tennessee Highway Patrol five days later in their truck driver
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  from the same carrier paid for parking at Capital Fuel Truck
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  Stop in West Memphis, AR. Now West Memphis AR pretty a
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  pretty that's a pretty shady area.
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  OK, I stayed in West Memphis and the Flying J there also it was
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  there's a few truck stops in West Memphis right there on 40.
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  I stayed already in West Memphis at a greyhound.
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  There's a greyhound track here in West Memphis, casino and all
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  instead of instead of horses, instead of horses, it it's it's
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  instead of horses, it's it's greyhound track.
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  Big part. You're not parking with trucks.
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  I don't know. Yeah.
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  So five days later and their truck driver paid for parking
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  and capital fuel truck in West Martin or West Memphis, AR
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  Sorry, I'm tongue tied. I noticed that unbeknownst to
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  him, the lot was also operated by S line.
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  A similar situation played out including a one's towing
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  humanity $3000 and removed the boot.
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  They were they were doing this to they're just playing praying
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  on trucks. Just praying on truck drivers.
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  That's what I call a predatory towing.
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  The trucker mouth don't like it. He put the hammer down on them
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  already. Anyone's telling no touch order.
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  So according to court documents, A1's telling it's prohibited.
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  According to court doctors, A1's telling it's prohibited from
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  ticketing, booting, towing, driving spring, or otherwise
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  touching a truck owned by the plaintiff companies.
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  So they sued this bastard and may not touch them no more.
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  So Additionally, Kathy's companies, Kathy's, the guy who
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  owns S S Line and A1 Towing must provide these carriers with a
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  list of all the locations they operate or service.
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  They must also provide information on any new locations
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  that may acquire parking rules that that they may acquire.
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  So they're, they, they got to give these companies that, that
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  have a lawsuit against them, a list of all the places that they
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  have security at. It's S Line, Kathy's companies
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  lawsuits, A1 Towing. Oh, so I'm going to take an
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  effort for the boys. OK, A1's history, towing history
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  of complaints. Here's A1 still here.
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  This isn't A1's first run in with the law.
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  Since 2022, Tennessee Attorney General, Division of Consumer
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  Affairs has received numerous complaints about a one's towing
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  at the local level. The city of Memphis
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  investigation, prompted by nearly a dozen complaints from
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  truckers across the country founding their towing company
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  violated city ordinance. Subsequently, the city suspended
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  its towing and booting permits in September 2023 to under a
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  Shell. A Shell truck stop off
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  Interstate 40 in Fayette County, Tennessee, was granted an
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  emergency injunction for hearing A1's towing from entering the
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  property after they're illegally booted and towed trucks multiple
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  times. This is a truck stop.
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  I never and anyone was coming in there and.
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  And towing trucks, booting and towing trucks, truck stop under,
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  said the unauthorized who's caused substantial harm to his
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  business. Well, I'll tell you, Oh, man.
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  So we're OK. So we're not going to do a we're
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  going to not do a commercial today, I guess because I've been
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  reading here. Like I said, I printed this
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  stuff out instead of writing it down.
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  I printed it out. But this, this A1, he's got to
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  be shut down. Trucker mouth already.
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  Put the hammer down on him. Kathy, I don't like you like
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  smashing the head with a hammer. All right, so one token wreck, a
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  trucker's paycheck. The truck is gone.
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  The bill keeps growing. States are now moving to stop
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  towing companies from turning roadside trouble into financial
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  trap. And from North Carolina to
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  Arizona, lawmakers are making new rules to stop unfair towing
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  practices. Pennsylvania.
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  Now that's where I'm at. Pennsylvania.
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  Pennsylvania. You know what, Kathy?
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  Thank you bastard. We just do that Kathy shooting
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  like that. Pennsylvania has taken aim at
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  predatory towing. New law sets statewide rules for
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  towing companies and storage lots.
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  It also creates criminal penalties for operators who
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  break the rules. The rule covers trucks and other
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  vehicles. The overwhelming majority of
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  towing companies are honest, professional, hard workers with
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  would provide an important service, said Senator Sheriff
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  Sheriff St. Democrat Philadelphia
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  legislation is aimed at the small number of bad actors whose
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  practices hurt consumers and damaged reputation.
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  Industry tone companies and storage facilities must also
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  tell drivers where the vehicle was taken and how to get it
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  back. Tone companies also cannot
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  simply shut up, show up and tow a vehicle on their own.
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  The tow must be requested by the vehicle's owner, operator or law
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  enforcement or another authorized or another authorized
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  official. So they're really cracking down
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  here in PA too. Enforcement will no longer fall
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  on the attorney general's office, OK.
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  State and local police will also be allowed to enforce the rules.
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  The Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association said that the new
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  law creates clear rules for what happens after the vehicle is
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  towed. Violators could face fines
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  ranging from 750 to $5000. So Pennsylvania's really
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  cracking down on bastard's tow total company store facility can
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  also have his truck impounded. The truck would stay.
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  Yeah, they're going to impound the The Wreckers.
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  They're going to impound his shit.
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  He's got to pay a big, big money to get it out $755,000.
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  Everyone's towing now. I guess he reached the
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  settlement with I guess he reached the settlement with a
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  trio of trunk companies in federal laws in a federal
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  lawsuit. OK, he put in one of the most
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  notorious towing companies in in the Memphis, TN area on notice
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  again. So I really want to add to this
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  prick this, this Cathy, this guy knows what he wanted that that's
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  line. Predatory towing has been issued
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  for truck drivers across the country.
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  Despite state and local status, predatory towing persists.
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  Everybody's, everybody's tries to prey on the truck driver, you
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  know, breaking in their trucks, stealing stuff, you know,
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  impounding their trucks. I mean, everybody's out to get
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  the truck driver, man. You've really got to watch it
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  out there. And if drivers, if you see
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  something going on, unite. I meant to say this earlier, if
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  you're out there Rd. drivers, you see something going on, you
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  know, there's unite, you know, and do something about it.
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  You know, I always under the impression, you know, like, so
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  when I was a kid, I always wanted to be a road truck
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  driver. You know, I thought there was
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  this big, this big allegiance out there between truck drivers.
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  And you know, I found that that's pretty much a myth.
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  That's pretty much a myth. I mean, everybody's kind of
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  looking out for yourself out there.
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  But Rd. drivers, you need to get unionized, well, unionized.
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  And I mean look out for each other, have each other's back,
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  make this industry great again. Yep.
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  Spike state and local status. Predatory towing.
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  They'll persist, forcing trucking companies to resort to
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  legal action. Sharded again.
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  There's an A1 down there that says not affiliated with one in
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  Memphis. Resorted to pay $30,000 and had
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  to be restricted on how it conducts business.
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  Local media has sharded the short.
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  North Carolina are being the Wild West of towing.
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  It's played attention to the issue.
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  Predatory towing appears to be alive and well in the city.
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  According according to the WSOCTV report, a truck driver
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  was hit with a $9000 towing bill.
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  Averaged just 30 minutes past the parking limit, 30 minutes
• 26:27
  past the limit. So obviously they were, they're
• 26:29
  sitting there waiting on these, on these, they're sitting there
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  waiting for their time to run up and to run and, and snagging
• 26:38
  them up and, and, and, and telling them, oh, man.
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  This includes $7000 for impound towing, $1500 for gate
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  administration and firing hours for storage for one day.
• 26:55
  Footage from local reports shows signs for shorted travel plazas.
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  This is the short North Carolina again located on Sunset Rd.
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  right off Interstate 77. A sign located at the entrance
• 27:05
  of the truck parking lot of states that all similar trucks
• 27:07
  want to sign in inside the store and be in a designated parking
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  spot, and trucks are allowed to park for two days once you sign
• 27:18
  in. So I guess the guy was signed
• 27:20
  in, up in there signing in and they came and grabbed his shit.
• 27:29
  All right, I'm not sure, but also on sign, also on that sign,
• 27:34
  there's a they have a breakdown there.
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  Shit, $3500 impound fee. OK, $35 for vehicles that rate
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  1000 lbs. Thirty $500 impound fee, 3500
• 27:46
  for vehicles that rate 1000 lbs up to $2500 boot fee up to $1500
• 27:51
  special equipment fee, the $750 gate administration fee.
• 27:59
  Driver told WSOCTV that the incident happened one day after
• 28:02
  a historic snowstorm. At the time the area was under
• 28:04
  state of emergency. So I mean, you know, historic
• 28:08
  snowstorm you got you got to park there probably was that
• 28:16
  made it way worse. So he was probably parking where
• 28:18
  he could to go sign in and they snagged his shit.
• 28:21
  This may be a one off situation and so should be approached from
• 28:25
  April 2025. One driver warned about
• 28:28
  Chartered Travel Plaza and Predatory Towing and what
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  appears to be a dispatch screenshot.
• 28:33
  Drivers were alerted to several trucks being towed with bills
• 28:36
  over $10,000. Boy, they're just, they're just
• 28:45
  doing anything they can. So now we're going to go to the
• 28:50
  to the to the to the issue with truck stops, which the lack of
• 28:53
  truck stops across the nation is a serious issue.
• 28:56
  OK. There's a lot of areas they
• 29:00
  don't have enough truck stops out there.
• 29:02
  There's not enough parking. I did a story the other day
• 29:04
  where it said what it was. There's one truck spot in trucks
• 29:10
  in truck. There's one truck spot for every
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  11 drivers out there. Yeah, lack of truck stops across
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  the nation, serious issue. It really is rule is research
• 29:26
  has had many problems with truck stops availability.
• 29:28
  These issues worsened during emergencies.
• 29:30
  Yeah. And water's better.
• 29:30
  Everybody wants to be in the truck stop.
• 29:32
  They want to be in there getting a shower and stuff like that
• 29:34
  There. This is rule band where roads
• 29:36
  are shut down everybody. Then you got you want to be at a
• 29:38
  truck stop so you can. Yeah.
• 29:41
  You understand that? No stakeholders in the trucking
• 29:50
  ecosystem have a clean obligation to provide humane
• 29:52
  treatment or sufficient infrastructure.
• 29:55
  So these guys, you know, people are looking for a a, a safe
• 29:58
  place to park. I mean, it has good amenities
• 30:01
  like a restaurant, you know, clean showers somewhere you can,
• 30:05
  you know, fill a little bit of of relaxation and like, you
• 30:10
  know, being at home con and out of your truck.
• 30:14
  So all right, well, we're I'm about out of time and this this
• 30:22
  truck stop thing is going to be in their show.
• 30:24
  I think it's going to be part of another show next week.
• 30:29
  I'm going to do the the highway bill Next week is going to be
• 30:34
  the yeah, the highway bill and on truck stops.
• 30:40
  So I'm trucker mouth. Thanks for coming along on the
• 30:44
  road. We're trucker man.
• 30:58
  Everybody have a good and safe, good and safe Labor Day weekend
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  and. OK, here we go again.
• 31:30
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