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What's the deal with tow trucks?

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AgKJ
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Over the past couple of weeks, I've passed a handful of wrecks in which only TWO vehicles were involved/affected. Yet there are always no fewer than 10 or so tow trucks lined up waiting for work. Why? When the police are ready for the vehicles to be moved, don't they just wave to the first two trucks in line? Why do the others hang around?
HouAggie
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Lottery
pilot
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Vultures.....
Panama Red
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Where did you live before you moved to Houston last week?
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plowboy1065
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Vultures...


My thoughts exactly. I've seen them speeding through school zones and practically causing wrecks to get to one. They all smell of cheap gas station cologne and can't wait to rip you off
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What's the deal with airplane food?
Skinny Wrinkles
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Vultures...


My thoughts exactly. I've seen them speeding through school zones and practically causing wrecks to get to one. They all smell of cheap gas station cologne and can't wait to rip you off

Yep.
The Original AG 76
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What's the deal with hemroids?
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aTm2004
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I got towed in midtown once and a HPD car drove up and asked if I drove the gray Nissan truck. When I told him I did, he told me where the tow truck driver was and how much to take him for him to drop it. I know he got a cut of it. And I went back later to see if I had parked in an illegal spot and I hadn't.
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Vultures.....
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Where did you live before you moved to Houston last week?
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Jack Cheese
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Vultures.....
THIS.

Had a power steering pump explode in 2007. Called a wrecker service to haul it to the dealership for repair. The dude offered to give us a ride to the in-laws(about five miles away) - which we ****** up and accepted. Happened on a wreck and he said he was going to take it. Dumped my wife and I out in the pouring rain at Westheimer and Beltway 8.

**** those scumbags.

Dude, that is effed up.
88jrt06
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Thought we put in a new (lottery?) system under Mayor White?

Guess that's worked as well as traffic light cameras and sequentially TIMING (Grrrr...) stoplights?

Abject failure.

I've had it. I'm going to take Commuter Rail instead.
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Passed two about twenty minutes ago out in Katy, literally racing to get to a wreck. Weaving in and out of traffic and cutting each other off.
Sooper Jeenyus
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I put them in the same class as apartment-complex managers. Fuggers would charge you an oxygen usage fee if they could, both of them.
Quantum ace
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Passed two about twenty minutes ago out in Katy, literally racing to get to a wreck. Weaving in and out of traffic and cutting each other off.

And the dewshnozzle cops don't give a crap about it.
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Is there a more despised group of people?

Critical mass
Ezra Brooks
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Is there a more despised group of people?
Lowest form of life - only slightly below apartment leasing agents.
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Is there a more despised group of people?
Lowest form of life - only slightly below apartment leasing agents.
To apartment leasing agents' credit, many of them are attractive females and every now-and-again, the end of the day tour ends with a "test drive" of the kitchen counter top, etc.
AgKJ
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I still don't understand why a dozen of them line up for a2-car accident. What chance to wreckers #3 through 12 have of getting a job?
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DustysLineup
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I still don't understand why a dozen of them line up for a2-car accident. What chance to wreckers #3 through 12 have of getting a job?


The vultures used to race each other to accident scenes trying to get there first, creating a more dangerous situation. So the city enforced a lottery system. Now, all of them sit there, blocking as much traffic as possible, waiting for a police officer to arrive and award the tows.
13wins
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There are few things I actually hate more than tow truck drivers. I watched one going probably 70mph in a 30 and busting through a red light yesterday.
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A few weeks ago I was on N Post Oak just outside of 610 sitting at a red light. Next thing I see is a tow truck driver blow through the red light around me in the turn only lane. Thank God there were no cars coming or going across the intersection or he would have killed someone at his speed. Turned out there was a wreck two lights up at San Felipe. There were tow trucks already working the scene so I guess he didnt hang around. I was ready to get out and lay into the POS for what he did.
Buck O Five
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Saw a tow truck getting towed after hitting a police cruiser at Kirby and 59 a few years back.
Zeke1995
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Lowest form of life - only slightly below apartment leasing agents.


Now, now. Some of the leasing chicks are hot.
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******bags
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Is there a more despised group of people?

Critical mass
aTm2004
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Saw a tow truck getting towed after hitting a police cruiser at Kirby and 59 a few years back.

That makes me almost as happy as the time I witnessed a PTTS fatty let the 50cc engine in his scooter get the best of him and send him tumbling to the ground while the scooter shot off into the curb with all of the built up power it released when it no longer had the equivalent of a football team of midgets on it.
AgKJ
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I still don't understand why a dozen of them line up for a2-car accident. What chance to wreckers #3 through 12 have of getting a job?


The vultures used to race each other to accident scenes trying to get there first, creating a more dangerous situation. So the city enforced a lottery system. Now, all of them sit there, blocking as much traffic as possible, waiting for a police officer to arrive and award the tows.

Thanks for the thorough answer. I obviously missed that when it was implemented. What a pathetic "industry".
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