Kinda a strange reason to pay cash for a vehicle, unless you are likely to
have a vehicle repo'ed cause you don't make the payments
-----Original Message-----
From: jim miller <jmiller@eramp.net>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Monday, May 04, 1998 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: DML: RE: Towing a Dakota
>I wonder if you saw an article on TV a few months ago about wrecker drivers
>getting shot at in Texas. Seems state law allows use of deadly force to
protect
>ones life or property. That includes repo wrecker drivers. I don't know
if any
>repo drivers have been killed but I do know many have had their wreckers
shot up
>pretty bad trying to remove a veichle from private property and the law
will
>usually protect the property owner. I used to drive a wrecker in the 70s
and my
>boss would not let us repo for anybody because of the laws here in Texas.
Kind of
>scary. Causes repo drivers to charge very high rates to leinholders to take
the
>risk. Of course the leinholders charges the cost back to the loan anyway.
I am
>going to pay cash fir my Dak when it arrives so if I see mine on a wrecker
it'll
>be broke down or stolen!
>
>
>
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