From: Larry Tighe (larryradio@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Apr 12 2004 - 15:39:45 PDT
Break down in New York City and simply give The Man your wallet, wife and
children. 50% you'll ever get the car back.
Lar
----- Original Message -----
From: "everette" <194cbteng@bellsouth.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 6:17 PM
Subject: [MV] M37 transport info required
> And my experience has been that a great number of the towing companies are
> far from "Honest, Dependable, truthful, business men" I think it comes
from
> most of the contacts they have are with people they will never see again.
I
> have a good friend that is in towing business and has been for many years,
> even he treats people that he will never see again different than he does
> people that are local repeat customers. And I am in a small town, go to a
> larger city and my experience is that they are more likely to do shoddy
> work. A few years ago I was in a larger city and my Pontiac car quit, the
> police called a tow truck.
>
> He was going to hook to front and tow it to my shop - 50 miles - from
the
> front, without dropping drive shaft. I asked was this going to damage my
> car, knowing full well the automatic transmission would suffer damage. He
> said will not hurt a thing, I asked about towing from rear "too hard to
do"
> was reply. He did not tow it. He also said when I asked the charges he
> said 2.00 per mile, I did not flinch, then he said "both" ways, still to
> reaction from me he then said plus my time at 65.00 per hour and estimated
> job would take 3 hours. I told him not to even touch my car - he then
told
> me I owed 100.00 for the call. I said some rude words and did not pay.
>
> Cop wanted to know what I was going to do, I said I was going to push
the
> car about 5 feet so it will be clear of roadway and wait for tow from
home.
> Policeman took his car (with push bar) moved it out of road, said "have a
> nice day" and drove off.
>
> Everette
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 2:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] List sweethearts Re: [MV] M37 transport info required
>
>
> At 1:09 PM -0500 4/12/04, David Cole wrote:
> >>>you people are so cheap when comes to moving things around/
> >
> >Yeah, so what? And why not?
> >I'd rather spend money on equipment than transport costs.
>
> And not all of us own a towing company...
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>
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