We’re happy to have featured Andy Tessmann’s truck on our December cover, too! Here’s the story from Watertown Daily Times Online:

LOCAL BUSINESS FEATURED

Andy Tessmann of Emergency Starting and Towing stopped by our office the other day with a copy of the December 2010 issue of Towing & Recovery Footnotes, a monthly publication for the towing industry.

The cover story was about a new charity the towing industry in the Midwest is embracing. Tow truck owners from all over the Midwest drove to the Chicago area back in early December and held a parade with tow trucks as far as you could see. Over 190 companies were represented with many of them bringing more than one tow truck. They were all decorated in the Christmas spirit and they were collecting Toys for Tots in the Chicago area. They brought thousands of toys. There’s lots of needy children in that metropolitan area, making this a wonderful holiday charity.

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Well, to illustrate the parade and the charity work this industry is doing, the editors of Towing & Recovery selected one tow truck to be on the front page.

Sure enough, it was Emergency Starting and Towing’s unit all decorated. It probably helped that the tow truck is painted a bright red. Tessmann told us he didn’t even know they took his rig’s picture let alone have it selected to be on the front page. The first he knew about it was when an industry friend sent him an early copy he had received.

It was a pretty impressive photo. And, Tessmann tells us he’s already planning to be there for next year’s parade.

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Our condolences to the family and acquaintances of Anton Agurs, owner of Sanctified Towing, who was found shot to death on June 7. Here’s the story from www.myfoxdc.com:

OXON HILL, Md. – Alethea Agurs can remember everything from Tuesday night. It wasn’t unusual for Anton Agurs to get a call for a tow late at night. He owned his own tow truck, naming the business, Sanctified Towing. He came up with the name five years ago in bible study and ran the business from their District Heights home.


“I don’t know exactly what the job was. He received a call to do a tow and he left maybe a little before ten [p.m.] to go and do a tow job,” said his wife.

An hour and a half after he left, Anton Agurs was found dead alongside his tow truck. His wife says he had been shot.

“I’m truly going to miss him. He would do anything for anybody. A family man. All he wanted to do was work for his family. Take care of his family,” his wife said.

Prince George’s County Police found Anton’s body around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, just outside Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Hill Farm, a national park by the Potomac River in Oxon Hill. The family says the truck’s lights were still flashing. Police say they got a call about a man unconscious in the road. No one seems to know why he was there or if he ever made it to his tow call.

The park closes at 4:30 p.m. The gates are locked and employees leave. There is nothing else around except for the cars speeding by on the beltway nearby.

“This is truly a senseless act. There’s nothing I know that he did to deserve this,” said Alethea.

She says Anton was always careful about who he towed. He worked with auto repair shops, through contracts, did emergency roadside assistance, referrals and repeat business. Anton avoided repossessing cars or other types of towing that might lead to angry confrontations.

Police are still investigating a motive and are not saying if anything was stolen.

“Was it a set up? It very well could have been. Why? I couldn’t tell you,” his wife said, only guessing what might have happened.

Hardest of all has been explaining the murder to their two children.

“I have a 13-year-old daughter and I have a one-year-old son. So of course he doesn’t understand this. My daughter is heartbroken,” she said.

Anton Agurs’ son is named Anton too. What he understands is daddy is gone. Now his family finds strength in what he would tell them.

“Be strong. Live life. Take care of my children. I got your back. It will be alright,” Alethea Agurs can hear her husband saying.

He was a husband, a father, the life of this family now gone.

Read more: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/maryland/tow-truck-driver-found-shot-to-death-in-oxon-hill-060811#.TfDQNVvH_cs#ixzz1Omr9p3rF

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Guerrilla marketing was designed by Jay Conrad Levinson as a tool for small businesses with nonexistent marketing budgets to get noticed by consumers. The expenditures required are a passion for your business, creativity, and follow-through. Guerrilla marketing is an aggressive brand of towing advertising.

More than half of all the people on the Internet are involved in social networking. Facebook currently has more online activity than any other site. Thus, Facebook is an ideal venue for guerrilla marketing tactics.

As a social network, Facebook facilitates sharing. When people come across something that they simply must show to their friends and family, that online resource can get incredible exposure. Online marketing for towing companies can include attempts to create just such a unique post that is wildly sharable.

There’s no harm in being ambitious in your goals as you set out to engage in guerrilla marketing. Just be aware that it’s very rare for a post to “go viral,” getting the type of incredible exposure which can win a lifetime of fame for a towing business. As long as professional integrity isn’t compromised, why not go for it?

Here’s an idea for going the extra mile in towing advertising. Shoot a series of staged videos which briefly enact scenes in which customers receive emergency towing services. Have an ongoing character or some brand of humor in each one. Add an air of lightheartedness to your towing business. Something as simple as this kind of video series could win over the loyalty of your community.

Get together with all of your drivers and come up with ideas for guerrilla marketing. Follow through with the plans made from your brainstorming session, and measure the effectiveness of your efforts.

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Here is his obituary:

Jerry Lee Bullock was born in Walla Walla, Washington on January 14, 1942. He passed away at his home in West Linn, Oregon on Friday, October 7, 2011. Jerry was 69 years of age when he passed from congestive heart failure and COPD.

Jerry is survived by his wife of 43 years, Georgia “Jo” Bullock; his children Jim (Debbie), Dawn (Rick), Dana, Dean (Debbie), and Lori; his nephews Lance Bullock and L.G. Bullock (their children Ryan, Hannah, and Gracie); his grandchildren Shelley, Cassandra, Matt, Robin, Nicolas, Shaylah, and Samuel; his great-grandchildren Alyssa, Brooklyn, Maggie, Camryn, and Elijah; he is further survived by his beloved companion dog, Bandit. Jerry was preceded in death by his mother Theda L. Kerr Bullock, his father Wallace F. Bullock, and his brother Daniel Wallace Bullock.

Jerry grew up in Milton-Freewater, Oregon and graduated from McLoughlin Union High School in June 1960. On September 3, 1968, Jerry married Georgia “Jo” Lee Wilding; who brought along her five children, Jim age 16; the twins Dawn and Dana, age 12; Dean, age 11; and Lori, age 7.

Jerry worked for Key Brothers Ranches, hauling peas and wheat. He moved on to work for Pendleton Frozen Foods hauling throughout the United States. He then worked for Dee Thomason Ford in Lake Oswego, Oregon and drove a tow truck part-time for Bill Nelson. Eventually, Jerry bought Nelson Towing and changed the name to Bullock Towing. He sold his company in 1985 and moved on to building tow trucks at Jerry Bullock Enterprises, Inc. in Sherwood, Oregon.

Jerry was instrumental in forming the Independent Towing Operators of Oregon, which eventually merged with the Northwest Towing Association and later became the Oregon Tow Truck Association. He was one of 26 founding members of the Towing & Recovery Association of America, which was formed in August of 1979, in Kansas City, MO. Jerry was also a founding member of the Friends of Towing, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of the towing industry. With Jerry’s undying dedication and perseverance, the Friends of Towing eventually became known as the International Towing & Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum. His passion was to improve the image of the towing industry throughout the world and to educate towers as well as the public about the towing industry. Jerry continuously dedicated time, money, and expertise to this passion. For years, he dedicated countless hours to helping create a solid place for a Tow Truck Museum that would also serve as an educational facility for current trainings and a place to honor both fallen and active towers. It all started with a large trailer that was hauled all over the United States to various Tow Shows. Jerry made sure that the trailer made it to each and every show. Eventually, they outgrew the trailer and found a building at 4th and Broad Street in Chattanooga, TN. (the birthplace of the towing industry). However, they quickly outgrew that building and Jerry was determined to help find a larger building in the same area; with much dedication and perseverance of Jerry and other men and women like him, they were able to find a much larger building further south on Broad Street. Jerry’s dream was realized with this new home, referred, to as the ITRHFM. This building is now a home for everyone to see and learn about the towing industry. Jerry’s never-ending dedication to this organization earned him the name, “Mr. Museum” across the country. He held great pride in seeing his dream come to life in something that is now inspirational to so many across the world.

We wish to thank KP Hospice for all their strength and support, which they have given to our dad and us (his family) during our time of need, especially Robert Yuille and Meredith Seiser.

A graveside service will be held in Milton-Freewater, Oregon on Friday, October 21, 2011 at 11:00AM. Jerry’s “Celebration of Life” service will be held at Rolling Hills Community Church at 3550 SW Borland Road in Tualatin, Oregon on Friday, November 18, 2011, at 11:00AM. Special room rates at Crown Plaza Hotel, Lake Oswego, Oregon. Call direct 503-624-8400 and ask for the “Bullock Block”. At Jerry’s request, in lieu of flowers, please send memorial donations to the International Towing & Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum, 3315 Broad St., Chattanooga, TN. 37408-3052. 423.267.3132.

Poem: by Shelley Ryan

While most have just two grandpas, count me lucky I had three
The subject of my poem last name Bullock, first & middle Jerry Lee

He grew up in a small town, Milton- Freewater is the place

From boy to man as time progressed with his trademark beard upon his face

In his twenties he met the woman he would marry

Georgia brought along more luggage than most do carry

Two sons & three daughters & a few years on her mate

Jerry didn’t seem to mind, for him this was his fate

Bullock Towing consumed the family, trucks always on the go

Jerry provided for the kids and his wife known as “Jo”

In his thirties, he was father of the bride to my mother & walked her down the aisle Grandkids followed, getting used to that would take a while

Papa Jerry he became at such a young age that I don’t know if he was ready

He came around through the years, but to me it seemed slow & steady

Trips back to Milton-Freewater I remember as a child

Jerry’s parents, Theda & Wally and apples growing wild

We all loved visiting Grandma & Poppie and Jerry’s brother, our Uncle Dan

Our cousins Lance & LG, their Uncle Jerry is their biggest fan

Jerry sold the towing company & decided trucks he will build

With my mother “in charge” and Dean out in the shop, the team was quite skilled

Jerry’s collecting hobby soon filled the place

Match Box cars & toy tow trucks taking up a lot of space

Eventually it was time to build the last truck

He taught his kids well & wished them “Good Luck”

They all ended up in towing, one way or another

With knowledge passed on from the man who married their mother

Papa Jerry has slowed down a bit and now has great grandkids to spoil

His hands are less often covered in grease & in oil

He changed the life of my grandma & the five children that with her she had brought

I hope he knows we love him a lot a lot a lot!

By Shelley Ryan
October 7, 2011

Dear Papa Jerry –

We still wonder if you were crazy in love or crazy insane when you married Grandma Jo with 5 kids. Little did you know you would soon start to have grandkids? Early on, I remember being surrounded by tow trucks and grease. My ability to take trucks and cars out of gear really made you happy when I did it to your truck and it crashed into some bricks. I especially remember the summer when I was ten, answering phones for Mom. I got to see you everyday. When you got the shop in Sherwood I loved going out there to help Mom. I was always so worried what you thought.

In 2001 when you had bypass surgery a week before Alyssa was born, I finally got a lecture from Snood telling me to get over myself and just go see you in the hospital. Then I made you a GREAT grandpa! Those next 3 ½ years I became closer to you, then I had in along time. I loved bring Alyssa over. Grandma Joe loved seeing Alyssa and I could see you did too. &
nbsp;Then in 2005 a week before Maggie was born you had your stroke. I remember telling you to quit stealing my thunder. Ever since then you smiled more and even laughed more, at least more then I remember.

When you started collecting Tow Mater stuff I thought it was so funny. Being around tow trucks all your life and now you want toy tow trucks. I told you I would one day get a tattoo of it and you laughed. I remember the day I showed you what I had done. You just smiled and shook your head. Now I will always have you with me.

Thank you for marrying my Grandma, thank you for giving me some of the BEST Great-Grandparents. Thank you for being a Dad to my Mom and raising her to be the strong woman she is today. Thank you for always loving your little turd bird.
LOVE,
Robin

The last time you said something to me, I told you I was leaving and I loved you. You said I love you too and thanks for coming.

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Hit and Run Kills Tow Operator | NBC Los Angeles:

Police are seeking the driver of a tan sedan who killed a tow truck a driver in Riverside last night and then fled the scene.
The hit-and-run driver swerved into the tow operator as he tried to load a disabled vehicle onto his flatbed tow truck on the right shoulder of the road on the eastbound side.
The operator has been identified as Christopher Tatro, 40, of Corona, who worked for Advanced Auto Tow. Tatro taken to Riverside Community Hospital, where he died on Saturday.
The collision occured at about 2:05 a.m. just west of Monroe Street in Riverside. Witnesses told the California Highway Patrol that the tan sedan continued on afterward, exiting the freeway at Adams Street.
Part of the vehicle was left behind at the scene and officials said they have footage of the tan sedan after the incident occurred.
The CHP is seeking the public’s help in tracking down the hit-and-run driver, asking witnesses or others with information to contact the California Highway Patrol, Riverside Area office, at (951) 637-8000.

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