jermfab
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Jul 25, 2013
- Location
- atlanta, ga
I’m in Atlanta. I’ve noticed a surprising number of tow trucks lately. Wondering if anyone else has noticed... or if you will now that I’ve mentioned it. I’m sane enough, my patterns have changed due to the virus, but not that significantly. I pulled into a QuikTrip gas station behind two rollback trucks yesterday to find another two rollbacks already at the pumps fueling. From QT I went to Kroger. There were rollbacks idling at both sides of the parking lot when I came in and two different “stinger” trucks near the Kroger fuel island.
My shop is right downtown, close to whatever they call Turner Field now, there’s a local company, A-Tow, that GUARDS!! that turf. I’ve seen the A-Tow guys for years, they have a fleet of paint-matched “stinger” repo trucks. Honestly, I’ve taken note of them because they don’t seem to have a single rollback and therefore likely won’t be my first call. After noticing the trucks at QT and Kroger I saw rollbacks way closer to my shop then I’ve ever seen before. Two different companies. NOT A-Tow...
Try as I may I’m not seeing the angle... I’ll grant that most of these “new” (potentially just to me), are high-dollar, company-owned trucks. As a cynic I’m thinking that the company owners are just trying to get their last gouge in... secure the next couple months of truck payments before people start shooting vulture capitalists in the streets? Guaranteed whoever owns these trucks isn’t fueling them up and sending them out to give people free rides home.
And bored Encyclopedia Browns out there?
Jeremy
My shop is right downtown, close to whatever they call Turner Field now, there’s a local company, A-Tow, that GUARDS!! that turf. I’ve seen the A-Tow guys for years, they have a fleet of paint-matched “stinger” repo trucks. Honestly, I’ve taken note of them because they don’t seem to have a single rollback and therefore likely won’t be my first call. After noticing the trucks at QT and Kroger I saw rollbacks way closer to my shop then I’ve ever seen before. Two different companies. NOT A-Tow...
Try as I may I’m not seeing the angle... I’ll grant that most of these “new” (potentially just to me), are high-dollar, company-owned trucks. As a cynic I’m thinking that the company owners are just trying to get their last gouge in... secure the next couple months of truck payments before people start shooting vulture capitalists in the streets? Guaranteed whoever owns these trucks isn’t fueling them up and sending them out to give people free rides home.
And bored Encyclopedia Browns out there?
Jeremy