Tow boss Donny Burgess of Donny’s Towing in Silver Point, TN, takes down a criminal. Here’s the story from News Channel 5:

by Marcus Washington
SILVER POINT, Tenn. – A mid-state business owner caught a thief in the act and held him down until sheriff’s deputies arrived.
To some folks, Donny Burgess is a hero as he comes to the rescue of stranded drivers, but he never thought he would be his own hero.

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“A lot of stealing been going on around here,” said Burgess.
His towing company, Donny’s Towing, has been burglarized three times this year, so he decided to start stopping by to keep an eye on things and one day, he found the crooks in action.
“When I pulled up I (saw) a truck sitting right by the fence,” Burgess said.
Burgess says he saw 27- year-old Ryan Flatt climbing the barbed wire fence and that’s when he called 911.
“I went up here and looked in the back of his truck and I found some of my stuff and I (knew) something was going on then,” said Burgess.
Moments later Burgess said Flatt peeped around the opposite side of the building saying he “ran out of gas.”
“I told him to stay right here until I checked this out a bit further. There is something going on here and I don’t’ like it,” Burgess shared.
When he did that, Flatt made a run for the allegedly “out of gas” truck and tried to pull off.
Burgess said he ran after Flatt and the man reached in the moving truck.
“I just shoved it right up in park and jerked his keys out the truck and I pulled him out the truck,” Burgess said.”held him (Flatt) by his shirt collier up against the truck until the police officer got here.”
Two others, brothers Daniel and Shone Frazier, were also arrested in connection with the burglary. They may have gotten away from Donny, but not the law.
“If they decided not to run and fight, I would have had to take on three of them. I never thought about that. I was a little nervous, but this is mine. It ain’t much, but it’s mine,” Burgess added.
Donny said he has no regrets and if he had to do it again he would do the same thing.
Donny’s Towing was not the only place the three men stole from that night.
According to police reports, they stole parts from another company worth and estimated $10,000.
Donny sids what the hardest part of this is that the young man he caught is his friend’s son.
All three men are facing criminal theft charges and will appear in court before the end of the year.
Email: mwashington@newschannel5.com

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Kudos to Mario’s Towing for their new Dinner for Cars program! Here’s the story from Global Winnipeg:

A Kelowna towing company has come up with a unique program to feed the needy while helping people get rid of their old clunkers.

Mario’s Towing will pick up unwanted vehicles in the Kelowna area free of charge during December, tow them to a metal recycling company and donate the money they get for scrap, which averages out to about $75 for every vehicle.

The program is called Dinner For Cars and Mario’s hopes it becomes an annual event.

The company hopes to get at least 31 cars in December, which will raise enough money to feed approximately 900 people during the holiday season.

For more information, call Mario’s Towing at 250 – 765 – 6009.

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• Exciting News!!!! In this issue, Footnotes proudly presents the first of what will be a regular monthly four-page feature. towPartners has joined with Footnotes to begin publishing in each issue the now-monthly towPartners ADVISOR! The Advisor will feature advice in all areas of towing, from technical details to business operations, while offering towers everywhere the opportunity for great discounts from the many, many equipment and service vendors who have teamed with towPartners to provide these savings to the industry. Page 13

• Bucks For Trucks is the beginning of a four-part series of articles for towing company owners on getting financing for their businesses in an era of tight money that is perhaps loosening up some. This first article gives the reader an overview of the current fiscal situation and discusses possibilities for getting the money to buy or lease that truck you need. Keep your eye on this series for the kind of advice that can help you thrive during trying times. Page 1

• Return of the Lizard Lickers. Love ‘em or not, these wild and colorful Carolina repossessors, featured in our June 1010 issue, have earned an audience on a cable reality TV show and have gotten such a following from that that they now have another show! With an entertaining website and even a book coming out, the Lizard Lickers are again on the move! Page 22
• The Black Book. The author of “The Black Book On Towing” and owner of the website www.towprogram.com begins his first column of what will become an occasional series on how to be better at the business you’re in. Dennis Wencel is both a towman and a business writer and so he knows of what he speaks. Avoid the costly mistakes that can hurt your business and rob you of profits. Watch for The Black Book. Page 7

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A man was killed Wednesday when he was dragged behind by a vehicle he was trying to tow.
Witnesses said the tow truck driver was in the process of towing an illegally parked SUV when the female owner of the vehicle jumped into the SUV and took off. Initial reports had said the woman jumped into the tow truck, but police corrected that to say she was driving the SUV.
Witnesses said the victim’s leg was caught in a cable that snapped as the woman drove off.Witnesses said they ran after the woman to try to get her to stop.
The tow truck driver was dragged for more than a mile before his leg was torn from his torso.
The SUV was found parked in a nearby neighborhood and police were interviewing several persons of interest in the case.
KRDO-TV reported the victim had both of his legs severed as a result of the dragging incident.
His company, J&J Towing, identified the victim Wednesday night as Allen Rose, 35, a married father of two and an Iraq War veteran who served multiple tours. He was a co-owner of the towing company.
The incident started at the Hill Park Apartments in the 300 block of N. Murray Blvd. in Colorado Springs. Rose’s body was found at Babcock Road and Platte Avenue.
Police said the crime scene stretched for 1.2 miles, containing blood and other evidence of the dragging.
Several streets in the area were closed through the evening rush hour while police documented evidence.

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Here’s the story from The Athens News:

A judge who last year heard a lawsuit by a towing company against three Glouster village officials, which resulted in a whopping $1.04 million jury award against the defendants, has issued a ruling that leaves only $130,000 of that judgment standing – one-eighth of the original amount.

Judge Michael Ward found that a jury in Athens County Common Pleas Court acted properly when it hit the three defendants – Glouster Mayor Robert Funk, Police Chief Roger Taylor and former mayor David Angle – with $130,000 worth of combined damages for lost profits and “consequential damages,” based on their having deliberately interfered with the ability of JD’s Towing to get village towing jobs.
Ward, however, granted the defendants new trials on various other damage awards including all punitive damages that a jury imposed after a nine-day trial last year. In doing so, he also vacated the damage amounts associated with those categories.
Taken together, the damages that the judge essentially set aside add up to more than $910,000. (In most cases Ward did not, however, agree to replace the jury’s judgment with one of his own, or to lower the damages to any specific amount, as the defendants had also asked him to do. Instead, he basically said that the damage issues in question will have to be the subject of another trial.)
After last year’s trial, the jury assessed Angle and Funk $40,000 each in lost-profit and consequential damages, while Taylor was assessed $50,000 in these categories, adding up to a total of $130,000. Ward ruled that this much of the jury’s damages judgment is valid and should stand.
Based on the judge’s June 8 decision on some defense motions, however, both Angle and Funk’s individual damage amounts now drop by $225,000 made up of $150,000 in punitive damages and $75,000 in compensatory damages for causing the defendants emotional distress.
Taylor’s judgment drops by $460,600 $300,000 in punitive damages and $160,600 in various compensatory damages for emotional distress and other categories.
The owners of JD’s Towing, David Dolan, Jr., and his wife, Jennifer Dolan, originally sued Glouster and Athens County officials in early 2005. They claimed that the company had been bumped from a list of tow companies used by Glouster, possibly in retaliation for their having refused to give a reduced rate for a towing job to a friend of Angle’s.
The county was dropped as a defendant in the suit in 2006, but the village remained. After a trial that began in late September 2010, the eight-member jury came back with the award of more than $1 million, after finding that the three defendants deliberately and maliciously interfered with the business relationship between JD’s and the village.
The attorney representing the village officials, Randall L. Lambert, quickly filed motions seeking to have the verdict thrown out, or at least to have the award amount reduced. He argued that the jurors were improperly influenced by the “passion and prejudice” of the Dolans, who he said portrayed themselves misleadingly as victims of the “big bad government.”
In his recent ruling, Ward actually denied many of the types of relief asked for by Lambert. For example, he rejected a defense motion for “remittur,” which had asked him to knock down the size of the damage awards, and he also refused most of Lambert’s requests that the judge issue his own judgment to replace that of the jury. (Ward did, however, grant a “judgment notwithstanding the verdict” in one instance, involving the jury’s finding that Taylor interfered with the business relationship between JD’s and the county.)
The business end of Ward’s decision is in the section where he granted the defendants’ motions for new trial on the issues of compensatory damages for emotional distress, and for all punitive damages. Punitive damages alone accounted for $600,000 of the judgment against the village officials; with the emotional-distress damages and a few other categories of damages applying only to Taylor thrown in, the judge effectively wiped out seven-eighths of the jury’s award, by granting the new trials.
In refusing to grant a “judgment notwithstanding the verdict” regarding the jury’s finding that the defendants interfered with JD’s business relationship with Glouster, Ward found that there was enough evidence presented at trial for the jury to conclude that this did take place.
Regarding punitive damages, Ward likewise refused to grant a judgment notwithstanding the verdict, finding that “there was sufficient evidence for the jury to conclude that the defendants’ conduct was outrageous because of their reckless indifference to the plaintiffs’ rights or intentionally and wantonly violated the plaintiff’s rights,” thereby justifying an award of punitive damages.
After making clear, however, that he believes he’s not legally justified in either rejecting the jury’s verdict or reducing its award amounts, Ward went on to grant the defendants a new trial on the punitive, emotional-distress and other damages mentioned above.
He concluded that the jury’s finding that the Dolans had suffered $65,000 in lost profits was “not excessive” and is “sustained by the weight of the evidence.” An additional $230,000 awarded for emotional distress, however ($75,000 each from Angle and Funk, plus $80,000 from Taylor), “is excessive and appears to have been awarded under the influence of passion and prejudice.” He noted that the emotional-distress award is 3.5 times the size of the lost-profits amount, and concluded that “the jury may have punished the defendants because (a village) officer did not give logical reasons for not calling (JD’s) for tows.”
The punitive damages, likewise, the judge found, “are excessive and appear to have been awarded under the influence of passion and prejudice.”
The Dolans’ attorney, Robert C. Paxton, meanwhile, has filed his own motions, seeking to make the defendants pay at least the interest on the damages while the dispute is being worked out, and also to pay his attorney fees. A hearing on these issues is scheduled for Aug. 15.

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Online marketing for towing companies is essential because approximately 70% of consumers now seek local services by searching on the Internet.  Excellent SEO is what puts your company at the top of the search engine results page (SERP).

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Many businesses make the mistake of hiring a company to build and maintain their website for them, but there’s no SEO involved.  It’s possible to have a website that’s nice to look at but is completely disconnected from search engines.  In other words, a website can be on the worldwide Internet but at the same time be virtually invisible.

SEO is the part of a website that appeals to computer search bots.  There’s no sense having a towing marketing website with terrific human appeal unless it also has search bot appeal.

Online marketing for towing companies should include the following SEO strategies.

If the towing marketing website was built without consideration for SEO, either start again from scratch or rebuild to include SEO.  This is foundational to reaching a top position with search engines.

Each page of your website should include a unique title tag that’s keyword-focused.  A keyword is a descriptive term that consumers use to search for a local towing company.

Use the location of your business in the content of your site, which is essential to getting your business found by local motorists who have towing needs.

Content is one of the most important elements that help a website to achieve top ranking on SERPs.  The content should be unique, well-written, and useful to the type of people who are likely to visit your site.  Adding fresh content at least weekly is also very important to achieving SEO.

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