May as well leave - you're not getting the tow

[wolfie]

Stopped to eat at a fast-food place, and out front there were the remains of a 2-vehicle collision with 4 tow trucks (2 from company "A", 1 each from companies "B" and "C". Companies "A" and "B" had sent ordinary tow trucks, "C" had sent a heavy-duty model. The vehicles involved? A tow truck from company "A" and a bobtail daycab tractor.

Clearly, company "A" would be getting their vehicle towed by one of their own trucks, and the daycab would be towed by the heavy-duty tow truck, so why would company "B" be sticking around?

[Sliceanddice]

it could be against company policy to tow their own truck and the two there where for the management assessing the situation

[EvilEmpryss]

My first thought was "to laugh".

[protege]

Clearly, company "A" would be getting their vehicle towed by one of their own trucks, and the daycab would be towed by the heavy-duty tow truck, so why would company "B" be sticking around?

It could be a situation where the Company "B" driver had a police scanner...heard the accident, and thought he'd "assist." Locally, there are several "towing companies" that do that. Unlike the Triple-A guys that are dispatched, these guys just randomly show up.

[Jetfire]

I'm not completely clear on the terminology but could it be that Company B got the call at first from the bobtail's company, and realized his truck couldn't handle it, so Company C had to be called in. B's sticking around for paperwork reasons at that point.

[drunkenwildmage]

The police might have automatically called them in. Some PDs have a list/rotation that they would call for police/accident tows, and it could have been Company's 'B's next turn on the list.

[bunrotha]

The police might have automatically called them in. Some PDs have a list/rotation that they would call for police/accident tows, and it could have been Company's 'B's next turn on the list.

We get that in the UK for accidents on major routes. My record is 3 trucks for one vehicle.

I made... a mess.. on a motorway. The police called recovery for all 3 vehicles so as to get the road cleared. While waiting to be talked to at the scene, I called in to my insurers- who immediately sent their own recovery without being asked, to try to prevent anyone else getting a referral fee, or having to pay anyone else's tow fees.

Since I didn't know the other 2 were going to be sent, I'd already called my own tow truck via my breakdown cover.