Towing News Now

The towing and recovery industry doesn’t get a fair shake when the people writing policy don’t understand what it’s like to work inches from live traffic, manage scene safety, and still fight to get paid. We sit down with Bruce Bender, Executive Director of the Towing and Recovery Association of America (TRAA), to talk about the most practical way to change that: TRAA’s Legislative Action Workshop and Hill Day in Washington, DC. Bruce walks us through how Hill Day works, why the meetings mat...

Private property impound towing is one of the most misunderstood parts of the towing and recovery industry, and the stakes are higher than most people realize. When parking is scarce, a single unauthorized car can block a paying tenant’s reserved spot, trap a business owner behind a bay door, or push residents into risky overflow parking that leads to even more conflict. We want parking enforcement to be fair, defensible, and safe, and that starts with being crystal clear about the “why” behi...

Two hours of waiting on a cleanup contractor can turn a “good call” into a revenue-killer. We sit down with Perry Beatty of Hazmat Responder Network and Logos Incorporated to talk about the real bottleneck many towing and recovery companies face: you respond on time, but you cannot move the truck or clear the lane because fuel is leaking, cargo is compromised, or storm drains are impacted. Perry walks us through how he went from old-school towing and heavy recovery to building a compliant ha...

Silence at an airport. A phone call to a parent. The kind of day you can replay in your mind decades later. We open with honest September 11 reflections that remind us why community matters, then we pivot to a story that shows what the towing and recovery industry looks like at its best: organized, generous, and proudly public about helping kids. We’re joined by Jim Resnahan of Chariot Automotive and Towing in Bridgeview, Illinois, a leader in the Illinois towing community and a longtime org...

Tow work is supposed to be straightforward: arrive, make the scene safer, move the vehicle, head to the next call. But what happens when the scene turns on you? We dig into a string of real-world incidents that show tow operators and repo agents working in the line of fire, including a hostile and highly charged response at a Chicago scene, a Massachusetts repossession attack involving a machete, and an impound situation in North Carolina that escalates to gunfire. The thread running through...