Aaron> Well didn't work for a company that did towaways, so generally I
only used that technique when it was an accident vehicle or a theft
recovery. And in both of those situations there's someone (usually a police
officer) standing there looking at his or her watch going, "Aren't you
loaded yet?" *lol* Under normal circumstances where the customer has
requested a tow and then didn't bother to stay with the vehicle we were not
allowed to unhook shift linkages or anything like that. Too much of a
liability.
As for the towing company having insurance, insurance is great if something
breaks on the truck and you lose a vehicle off the back. (Seen it happen,
it's not pretty) But for small damages the money always came out of our
pockets because there was a $2000 deductible on the insurance policy.
At 10:02 PM 06/01/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>That's why they have insurance on those trucks.. To cover when the drivers
>do damage like that. The damage is very obvious that it was done to the
>vehicle while stationary. The only reason for leavign a vehicle in park
>would be if it was wrecked that bad, burnt too bad to release it, or if it
>was being done as a repo ( justified hurry) Otherwise, what we always did
>was just lift the vehicle enough by one end to get under to disconnect the
>linkage and manually shift them into neutral. It's usually not much more
>than a clip, cotter pin, etc.. at most a nut & bolt..
>Aaron
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