Generally, towing services are not something a vehicle owner thinks about frequently, or ever. However, when they eventually think of them, towing services are needed immediately.
If you have ever been in a position like this, then you know exactly how hard it is to get hold of a towing service in an emergency. You are stranded in the middle of a highway with a vehicle that for one reason or the other, has refused to move one more inch, and you are in urgent need of support.
It is at times like these that the importance of having a personal towing service becomes clear. This is not the time to start looking for/calling unknown towing services for help. Rather, what you want to do is call a towing service you have registered with sometime in the past, a service you have taken the time to vet and confirm their credentials. However, you cannot call your personal towing service if you do not have one.
For information on how to start your own towing service, follow this link.
Yes, most vehicle owners do not think of towing services until they need them, but it would be wise to be among the few that took the time to arrange for one beforehand. Below are the advantages of having a personal towing service:
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Support in Times of Emergencies
When an emergency arises that necessitates the towing of your vehicle, then the issue must be serious and perhaps even delicate. Serious is when you are late for an important meeting and your car dies on you halfway to the office. Of course, the most ideal thing to do at this moment is to call your personal towing service, have them show up in record time and tow the car their garage while you take a cab down to your workplace. If you do not have a personal towing service at a time like this, you may need to start riffling through phone directories, looking for the contact of the towing service that is professional enough to get to you as fast as possible. It may be hard to find one, and while you search, valuable time is being wasted.
It could also be delicate, like, say, getting stranded in the middle of a deserted road in the middle of the night. What you need at this point is your personal towing service; a company that will leave everything aside, and rush down to provide you needed support. That is what personal services do, cater for you in times of emergencies.
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They Guarantee the Safety of Your Vehicle
Having a personal service reduces the chances of risk to you and to your vehicle. If, when pushed to, you hire the services of an unknown towing service, you run the risk of endangering yourself and your vehicle. For one, you don’t know how equipped the towing company is, and you may be entrusting your vehicle with people whose equipment are below standard.
Furthermore, by picking a towing service at random and without vetting during an emergency, there is no guarantee that they are registered or legit, and this poses additional risks. You don’t want to be at a roadside in the middle of the night and have hoodlums, pretending to be a towing service, pull up and rob you of your possessions. There have also been instances of scam towing services seizing expensive vehicles and refusing to release them till the owner shells out additional cash.
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They Provide Other Roadside Support Asides Towing
Sometimes, what you need is not towing, but roadside support. Towing services provide this too, but keep in mind, not all of them do. What you want to do is get a personal towing company that has the required personnel and tools to get you out of any jam. The best of them are open at all times, 24/7, and are readily available to provide emergency gas delivery, help fix minor mechanical problems, help change flat tires, jumpstart a vehicle, pull your vehicle out of a ditch, help you get in a locked car etc.
In an emergency, you don’t want to entrust all these to strangers; you want people you are familiar with. You want your personal towing service.
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They Will Travel Long Distance for You
You are a fair deal away from home, and your car breaks down. What do you do if you don’t have a personal towing service? You look at online directories and call a towing service close to you. However, they do not want to tow your vehicle all the way to your neighbourhood if it is too far from their garage. If they do, they want to charge you huge sums for it. If you have a personal towing service, you are protected from this.
Yes, they will charge you more to tow your car from out of state, but they won’t go overboard with their pricing.
