WELCOME TO CANADIAN TOWING PROFESSIONAL
Dedicated to Canada’s Towing and Recovery Professional BY DARRYL SIMMONS For too many years, Canada’s towing and recovery community has not been recognized for its work keeping Canada’s roads clear and its drivers safe. This magazine exists to help change this. Welcome to the first-ever issue of Canadian Towing Professional. What follows is an assortment […]
PETAL TO THE METAL
Young people driving high Towing professionals might find dealing with millenials a little bit more difficult–and interactions with them a little more frequent–since the legalization of marijuana. According to a new study from the CAA, young Canadians frequently engage in dangerous behaviour involving the use of marijuana and automobiles. The findings are based on a […]
TOW YEAH!
The Provincial Towing Association of Ontario’s 2019 Tow Show was a weekend to remember! BY GIDEON SCANLON In September, the Provincial Towing Association of Ontario held its 2019 Tow Show in Kitchener, Ontario. Friday, September 20, kicked off in the morning with two training sessions on dangerous goods transportation and OPP traffic management. An open […]
IN THE HEADLIGHTS
EAGLE TOWING SHAKES UP THE INDUSTRY Much like any industry, tow truck drivers often face backlash for their line of work. From a distrust of the system to an accusatory approach that some take towards the person who just rescued their car off the side of the road, people in the towing industry don’t have […]
ON YOUR MARK…
PTAO president Mark Graves on uniting the aftermarket behind a common purpose It has been a productive—if difficult— year for the Provincial Towing Association of Ontario’s president, Mark Graves. For one thing, press coverage of the towing industry in Ontario has paid special attention to the actions of a small group of criminals tenuously connected […]
RALLYING FOR REMEMBRANCE
Why Canada’s Tow Pros Must Stand Together BY GIDEON SCANLON There is something wrong with the world. Until the towing professional community rallied together, Canada’s public news outlet’s online platform had given more attention to an unfortunate bear than the tragic loss of a towing professional and community leader. On November 13, 2019, a black […]
BUILDING TRUST
Concerned about your advice to clients being misconstrued? When towing and recovery professionals are criticized, it is often because they are accused of pushing drivers to visit repair facilities with whom they have a kickback arrangement. While not unheard of, not every recommendation provided is done so for financial reasons. Even towing professionals with agreements […]
SCANNING THE SCENE
How the aftermarket’s value is being drained by high-tech tricks BY ELIZABETH SARGEANT The value of undrivable vehicles could go up significantly if auto parts customers had access to the same vehicle scanning technology given to auto repair facilities. For towing professionals, this means that the value of their specialized cargo is not being realized […]
LIVE ON (THIN) ICE
When death is a crack away, True North Track Truck’s Brandon Friesen doesn’t freeze-up BY GIDEON SCANLON On the frozen-over surface of Lake Winnipeg, disaster struck. A pickup truck with an attached trailer broke through the ice and became partially submerged. With their community known for being one of the best ice-fishing destinations in the […]
YOU DON’T KNOW JACK!
Eagle Towing’s Jack Poladian on equipping an industry in transition Towing industry advocate Jack Poladian is the operations manager at Eagle Towing, Ontario’s only distributor for NRC Industries towing and recovery equipment. Poladian fills us in on how a family-owned company, kickstarted in the 1970s, is still booming today–and about what he wishes people knew […]
