BEWARE! This guy, Jay or John, and I struck a deal for me to partner up with him.
He had just sold his rollback and bought a tilt car trailer with a Tennessee plate and tried to use it with his half ton pickup and his barely running wrecker.
I hooked his trailer to my 3/4 ton diesel and brought my nice Chevy wrecker to the table with the understanding that he would register my wrecker and put both on his commercial insurance.
So I quit my day job and went on over to his office to get everything going. He proceeds to tell me he doesn't have the money to fulfill his promises but that if we run both my trucks all weekend we will get the money.
Problem: my pickup isn't insured commercially and anything I would have towed wouldn't have been covered. Also, my wrecker isn't insured at all nor registered so anything I would have towed would have been uninsured or subject to impound. Either way, no good!
Be cautious and check the registration and insurance before you let the cheapest guy in town handle your vehicle... There is a reason towing isn't cheap... read more