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The 60th episode of the Adventures of the American Towman is coming in AT’s April issue, marking five years that AT Armada, Pop and HP(Horsepower) have been on the scene.
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Towers Push To Expand Rotation
More than a dozen Bakersfield, California tow truck companies want to put the brakes on an ordinance that allows only six towing operations to work for the Bakersfield Police Department. Some of the six Bakersfield towing operations are accused of playing politics with the Bakersfield Police Department by giving officers tickets to Los Angeles Lakers games and other perks that are against the police department's code of conduct. The issue has fueled an internal investigation.
Randall Davis, the owner of Joe's Towing, wants to work with Bakersfield police. He thinks he has been shut out because other companies are offering "favors" to police.
"I believe that the six companies do a lot of favors," Davis said. "Dinners, parties, haul them to Lakers games."
The office of City Manager Alan Tandy says the police department pays $600,000 to $700,000 to each of the six companies per year for responding to accidents, dui checkpoints, and crime scenes. A 1977 city ordinance limited the number of tow truck companies working for the Bakersfield Police Department to six, saying, "any more than that would split the service requirements up to a point where they could not effectively operate..." Source; KGET.COM
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Jerr-Dan Backs
Cross-Training
Xtreme Team will conduct a cross-training, two day course in Houston at Tow Expo Int’l., April 29 – May 2. The program, sponsored by the Jerr-Dan Corporation, is an interdisciplinary approach to indoctrinating both firefighters and towing professionals on the knowledge-set and skills of each service called on at the scene of an incident involving extrication. It is an advance vehicle cross-training course designed for experienced professional emergency workers from fire, rescue, and tow services to meet requirements of NFPA Operations and Technician Level Certification. The Xtreme Rescue & Recovery Team is headed by instructors certified in cross-training, John Borowski and Erik Stewart and firefighters Dave Lander and John Kayda, totaling over 100 years of experience in their respective fields.
The course includes incident command management and vehicle extrication with 18 hours of classroom and hands-on training. This training can help save lives and open roadways quicker than ever thought of before. Training features a Mock Emergency Recovery Demonstration with Helicopter Rescue on Friday, April 30, at 5:30 pm.
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Tow Contract For Sales Tax
Beach Park, Ill has come up with a unique way of capturing more sales tax revenue by annexing a business in exchange for a towing contract.
Last week, village trustees approved a contract with Lake County Towing to perform towing for various village needs including for the Lake County Sheriff's Office, which provides services to the village.
"He's right on the edge of the village, contiguous to the village. His used-car business is pretty progressive, so we encouraged him to annex into the village," Mayor Milt Jensen said. "And, of course, he wanted to do the towing for the sheriff's department, and we agreed to do this. We have to have sales tax to live on." Source: Lake County News-Sun
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Cross-Training Shares
Two Disciplines
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The cross-training taking place for firefighters and towing professionals during Tow Expo Int’l dives right into the heart of two disciplines called upon during a scene requiring extrication.
A four-hour classroom of towing discipline includes rigging, attachments, understanding and overcoming resistance, and weight estimations.
Another four-hour classroom of firefighter’s discipline includes stabilization, first responder tact, and Incident Command.
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There is also an eight-hour hands-on field training. Students will do rigging, secure attachments, hydraulic tool usage, try the latest techniques of cutting and dash rolling. Every student will experience hands-on in every area of topics presented.
The course finale is a two-hour Mock Emergency Recovery Demonstration; a full blown mock incident with self-critique of procedures, methods and tools used. The training event is sponsored by the Jerr-Dan Corporation.
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