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Revisiting a city impound lot
Earlier this month, I wrote about how the city is considering owning and operating its own impound lot. It thinks it can bring more money to the general fund by operating its own lot instead of contracting the services out.
I hadn’t thought about the matter in a few weeks, but today I got a letter from a concerned citizen. It sounds like he owns one of the impound lots the city contracts with, but I can’t be sure. It does remind me of the comments another impound lot operator told me.
Either way, I thought you might be interested in reading his letter.
750,000.00 per year
Where did this fellow get his figures from? If the tow yards were making this kind of money at the time this study was generated, that’s 150,000.00 dollars each per company. Which this is based on five towing companies being on the list at the time of this study. We sure would be very happy and less worried and certainly less stressed. Storage from impounded cars, that’s cars that has not been involved in an accident or just broke down and are strictly cars that was towed for such things as o.v.i. , no drivers license, expired tags, abandoned vehicles, stolen, or hit and run cars alone. Keep in mind , this is a not cars from car crash’s and they are cars that has been labeled police tows. In this model estimate, there was nothing in there about salaries of employees or all the benefit’s that come along with employees. Insurance for theft, property or fire. Were not just talking about one person here. You have to have someone qualified and capable of releasing vehicles, preparing vehicles for the auction, which by the way has to be advertised and that not free. Someone has to get the vehicles ready for the scrap yard. A lot of the impounded cars will come into the lot with all of their worldly possessions in them sometimes every thing they own. Now don’t get lost here thinking wow your going to be able to sell all that stuff. now when you open the door up to see all the worldly possessions after you become the new title holder you are knocked back about two feet due to the smell of rotten clothes and junk you couldn’t sell in a yard sale or donate to the needy. Remember this car was impounded the people are usually in jail or drugs have taken over there lives and have got down to living out this car. The cost of removing the articles in the cars is not factored into this equation and the scrap yards will not accept the cars unless they are removed. Also behind every good business you have to have someone to do the books. When Trenton and Oxford opened there impound lots back a few years ago, the cost for a city tow from a private individual was anywhere from 35.00 to 45.00 dollars. a police tow was 75.00 and you could charge extra for crash cars. now since the high cost of doing business and fuel prices have plummeted, the private individual will now pay around 75.00 dollars to get the car towed within the city. Now we get 90.00 now for police tows and we are no longer allowed to charge extra for clean up, that’s sweeping glass for sometimes as high as 30 minutes and disposing the trash when you’re your finished. We also are not allowed to charge for flipping cars back to the upright position or winching them from ditches or putting floor dry down on the ground even though the fire department charges for the floor dry and clean up. I certainly feel It would be hard to find a wrecker service that would want to tow the cars into the city’s lot that have the qualifications and dedication of the company’s that are on the list today. Now don’t get me wrong here. I do realize the city will find someone or maybe some of the wrecker services would continue to service the city’s needs. But for an extra 15.00 to be on call 24 hours, deal with the people already mad because they somehow can’t except the fact that they was impounded for a reason. Carry the insurance we are required to carry just because we tow for the police. Oh yes don’t forget this don’t include the poor old attack dogs you have to feed for the times you do have to leave the lot. The person who generated this model probably didn’t know what we go through, and I’m sure if he did. He would have certainly looked at the numbers a little different, and I’m sure he was not provided the correct information. So Let’s put this back into perspectives. We don’t make the kind of money projected in this model, and he certainly didn’t look at the whole picture. If you’re going to tell the public figures that don’t exist, at least give them the full pictures. I love and respect my job working with the city and it has been a pleasure, but this is Hamilton, Oh. last time I checked and a lot of people live paycheck to paycheck here. About 80 percent of the people only carry liability insurance. When they crash their car, it’s done, they don’t have the money to get them out or repair them. The cars that is impounded and labeled police tows are normally beyond their last leg. Maybe we should put this model back on the shelf and get the downtown water park model back out.
SINCERELY YOURS
KEVIN WOODS
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