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In tow
I’m still not sure where Mike Day got my cell phone number, but it was good to talk to him. Day owns Day’s Towing, one of the city’s four contracted towing and impound services. This explains why he was looking for me. Since Wednesday, I’d called various people about the city considering operating its own impound services.
Admittedly, Day has a lot to lose if the city starts impounding its own vehicles, but he thinks the city is just looking at the paper numbers and not the raw operations work. He said that the city should consider the fact that people try to break into impounded cars to steal stereos and people could attempt to make the city pay for damages to the car while in impound. Scrapping the car is no easier despite the fact that scrap is at its highest value in awhile - about $200 a ton. To scrap a vehicle, all fluids (gasoline, oil, freon, etc.) need to be drained from the car and disposed of in accordance with environmental regulations.
“It’s a time bomb that we hold all the time and we know,” he said.
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