With 80 live cows inside, this must’ve been quite a recovery! Here’s the story from CTV Toronto:

Traffic along the westbound lanes of Highway 401 was flowing against after an overturned transport truck carrying live cattle slowed it to a crawl throughout the day.

OPP Const. Graham Williamson said a transport truck was going westbound on the highway when it rolled over near Keele Street at about 9:15 a.m.

About 80 cows were trapped inside the overturned container through the afternoon as road crews used heavy tow trucks in their attempt to right the vehicle.

Williamson said 47 healthy cows had been removed through a hole in the container and transported to their destination.

They will be inspected when they arrive, he said.

Some of the cows injured in the rollover were euthanized.

The 30-year-old driver was not injured and faces charges stemming from careless driving. Williamson said speed was a factor.

He said the vehicle may have been driving too fast as it merged from collector lanes onto the expressway.

Earlier this month, a tractor-trailer containing about 250 pigs overturned on Hwy. 427. About 80 of the pigs were killed in the accident.

The driver in that case was charged with careless driving.

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Here’s the story from www.abrn.com:

California Assembly Bill 519, which deals with towing and storage laws, will go into effect statewide in January 2011. The bill was supported by the insurance industry and opposed by the Collision Repair Association of California (CRA) and others.

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It impacts companies that charge for towing or vehicle storage related to a tow. Those companies must:

Upon request provide a Towing Fee and Access Notice to the owner or operator of the vehicle.

Provide an itemized invoice of the actual tow charges.

Provide a notice on your invoice stating, “Upon request, you are entitled to receive a copy of the Towing Fees and Access Notice” and have the notice available.

The notice only needs to be on invoices that have tow charges.

The CRA suggests that repairers have the tow provider provide the information required relating to the tow on their invoice then incorporate by reference their invoice on your invoice (for example: see attached invoice xxxx for a total $xx.xx). Using the tower-provided invoice repairers are by this statute not responsible for the accuracy of the unaltered documen, according to CRA.

The bill allows for additional services or fees (mark up) to be charged if they are itemized and explained. This could be a handling fee or administration fee. Repairers should have the fee on their authorized estimate, according to CRA.

For more information, call CRA at 916-837-2362.

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Posted by Cyndi Kight, Associate Editor of Towing and Recovery Footnotes

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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.

From Footnotes TowBlog: Towing News Around The Web
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Posted by Cyndi Kight, Associate Editor of Towing and Recovery Footnotes

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