 | Jed1000 (74)
02/23/2006 |  You're better off if you call a company that does towing exclusively. If you call a repair shop and the guy has to be called off his regular job to go do your tow then you may get some attitude.
Best tow I ever had was in central Maine (just outside Bangor) at 9PM one Christmas Eve. A sudden snowstorm came up and I lost control of my pick-up and went down one of those 20/30 ft. deep gullies they have in-between the northbound and southbound lanes. At least 7 people stopped to see if I was okay and the tow-truck driver who arrived only 20 minutes later had had to leave his Christmas celebration with his wife and kids to come haul my ignorant, damn-Bostonian-can't-even-drive-in-snow butt out of that ditch. He was cheerful and pleasant and all he'd take for the tow was $20. Seriously. Twenty USD. (I was counting my change expecting him to want at least $150. I persuaded him to take $40.) That may say more about people from Maine than it does tow-truck drivers but either way it was a nice experience.
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 | Vudija (100)
02/22/2006 | My family's owned a tow company for over 20 years, and although I have seen some grumpy ones pass through the shop; it's not an exceptionally large amount of jerks as compared to other industries. Every place has its fair share if jerks to deal with, no more no less. And as far as I'm concerned, at least for area folks who call on our business, they almost always deserve some kind of attitude. Most of the customers act as if they are the only customer within a 50 mile radius who needs help, so a wait of longer than 5 minutes is just TOO unacceptable. By the time the tow driver gets there, 15-20 mintues later, the customers have got themselves in an almighty huff and are parading around cursing up a storm. I can't say I'd be a very nice tow truck driver in most of these situations either. Or you have the rare occasion where a property owner calls on an illegally parked car, and when the driver comes to pick the car up; he or she is greeted with an owner who has a shotgun. In some areas, these drivers are better off being repo-men.
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 | irishgit (155)
02/22/2006 | I have yet to meet one of these, male or female, who wasn't as ill-tempered as a constipated rattle-snake.
It may well be a function of the job that makes them mean, but I suspect its the kind of work that really attracts the sonsabitches of the world.
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