| Sam Brasch <sbrasch@cprmail.org> to me Hi Joel, |
Hi Joel,
This is Sam Brasch with Colorado Public Radio. I’m working on a story about private booting companies in Colorado and new regulations from the PUC. I’m looking for comments from a business owner. Any chance you’d be up to sit for an interview about Park It Right, LLC, how the business works, and what the new regulations might mean for the company?
I’d be happy to talk on the phone, but it’d be best if I could come to your office to get the best audio quality. Thx!
Sam
Sam Brasch
General Assignment Reporter, CPR News
Colorado Public Radio
Bridges Broadcast Center
7409 S. Alton Ct. | Centennial, CO 80112
(303) 871-9191, ext. 389
Let’s connect: @samuelbrasch | Facebook | Twitter | www.cpr.org
| Joel Perri <joel@parkitright.net> | Jul 8, 2019, 6:10 PM | ||
| to Sabrina, Noah, Bethany, Shelley | |||
what do you guys think too much not enough
Hello Sam,
It was a pleasure speaking with you I look forward to Wednesday. The reason for my concern with the Press is Tom Martino already did a hit piece on us falsely claiming I was a convicted felon along with me being the lowest of the lowest. Unfortunately, since Tom is always so over the top there is nothing a small business like ours can do to deal with it. In reality the industry has a black eye for a very good reason. So let me give you my take on the industry.
The Private Property Impound (PPI) industry has always had a black eye for how the business has been conducted. Denver is the home of the Denver Boot invented by an East High School shop teacher in the early 50’s for the Denver Police Department to help recoup unpaid traffic tickets. Denver’s first private property impound tows were done on East Colfax across the street from the Zanza Bar. A lot has changed in Denver since then with sky high rents and limited parking creating a parking nightmare for many. There is a real parking problem that needs enforcement of some type. Warnings don’t work, signs don’t work and rules in leases don’t work so a property has to resort to the only enforcement that is available towing or booting.
The biggest problem is not the method of enforcement, but how the enforcement is executed.
HITTER LOT-The industry jargon for a lot of tows or boots can be had
Small businesses, strip malls and restaurants need towing enforcement because they are limited on space. If they have a violator they need to have that vehicle removed so the parking space is open for another customer. As you will see many places have signs stating a time limit on parking. In retail turn over of the parking space is critical to the viability of the business. Park It Right and Towing Done Right do not enforce parking rules on these types of properties. We will only respond when called by the property manager. This is a much needed service, but it has its obvious problems.
HITTER PROPERTY-Apartment and HOA communities that have a high volume of parking violators resulting in constant towing or booting. Often these properties will have 20-30 vehicles towed/booted a day. There is no fix other than to keep towing and booting.
PATROL PROPERTY-Apartment and HOA communities that have a low to medium level of violators not needing constant enforcement.
The execution of these types of enforcement is where the biggest issues arise.
When putting together Park It Right I looked at each area I thought would be regulated or was a problem in the industry.
We carry more liability insurance than PUC requires of a towing carrier.
Our rates are slightly lower than a tow impound but by far more convenient and effective.
Our phones are answered by our employees 24/7
Our complaint department responds within 48 hours, but most often in less than 4 hours
We document everything with GPS and Photos
We record every phone call to ensure proper handling
We record every interaction with anyone on property
We have a contract with each property that specifically spells out what we are to enforce
We are licensed in every city that requires us to be licensed – most at least for head or use tax
Our remote release boot allows people to be on their way in minutes
My people are employees and wear uniforms
Our vehicles are clearly marked
They all wear body cams
As you can imagine there is a lot of expense in doing it right that is what makes regulating our rates worrisome to me. My costs are considerably higher than a pirate company that regulations won’t stop. You have had people in Boulder selling packages of boots so they can start their own booting business. I would imagine that the problem might be from one of these guys. Regulating won’t help in this matter because they are already breaking other city laws I would imagine. From the inside what I have seen over the years is someone will run illegally until they get prosecuted by the local police. I even recommended to PUC that they not worry so much about regulating every t and i that they focus on letting the cities prosecute people when they commit crimes.
I would imagine that the person in Boulder has actually committed some type of crime ie extortion, trespass, fraud or ? Instead of creating more bureaucracy that is ineffective at best. Bad players always get their karma-you do bad business it catching up to you. Having been in this industry since the early 70’s I have seen a lot of crooks, gangsters, thugs and thieves. None of them make it and by the time new rules come into play they are long gone. Leaving only the good operators to carry the load of another costly regulation.
Through an unusual chain of events I also own a towing company that is regulated by PUC. I started this company in November to take over from my old tow company Parking Authority (I sold 4 years ago). I wanted to make sure I was doing everything right so I contacted PUC numerous times to get direction on ensuring I was going to be doing things correctly as I combined both companies. My concern was before I would call a tow company when I needed a tow and just signed for it as the property agent. I wanted to see how that would be handled now that I also owned a towing company. I couldn’t and still haven’t gotten an answer.
I have been penalized for no date on the front of the agreement even though there was a date on the signature page. I have been penalized for sign placement on a divided property (I did not have authority to place the sign on someone else’s property as PUC stated I needed to) that clearly had our sign placed at its actual property entrance. I have been penalized 5 times so far on things I requested help from PUC on in the beginning to ensure I would avoid this. I have asked PUC and the Department of Revenue for help on processing the paperwork properly for the towing impounds. All they give us is a simple step by step that does not cover how to actually fill out the forms properly. So the people that buy an abandoned car from us ending up going back and forth to DMV.
I still haven’t gotten any help other than learning from all the corrections we have had to make. We have to have a licensed Dealer signs some of our paperwork to eliminate cars within 60 days at extra cost to us while they regulate our rates and how much we can keep from the sale of the abandoned vehicle-without any concern for our costs or loses on the other impounds. As I told you I even asked PUC to tell me what Pheonix Towing and Recovery did to get a Felony charge and I was instructed to find it myself. So I am regulated at my peril when my regulators won’t help me before the fact.
Joel Perri
President
Office: 855-727-5487 800-TOW-4805
joel@ParkItRight.net
www.ParkItRight.net www.TowingDoneRight.com
Parking Management Services
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| Noah Montoya <noah@parkitright.net> | Jul 8, 2019, 6:34 PM | ||
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Joel, It clearly says what the business is about, more importantly, you keep your response true to the news piece. Booting and its possible regulation. Any more info and it becomes an advertisement and any less loses the value in the stance on regulation and how useless it can be. I think you hit the mark.
Respectfully,
Noah Montoya
Office: 720-259-5850 800-TOW-4805
Noah@ParkItRight.net info@towingdoneright.com
www.ParkItRight.net www.TowingDoneRight.com
Parking Management Services
| Joel Perri <joel@parkitright.net> | Jul 8, 2019, 11:16 PM | ||
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Hello Sam,
It was a pleasure speaking with you I look forward to Wednesday. The reason for my concern with the Press is Tom Martino already did a hit piece on us falsely claiming I was a convicted felon along with me being the lowest of the lowest. Not mentioning that a competitor of mine is a personal and business associate of his. Unfortunately, since Tom is always so over the top there is nothing a small business like ours can do to combat flat out lies. I also had Channel 7 misrepresent us in a piece that was going to have a follow up story until they got our side of the story which they should have to begin with. The lady featured had already interacted with us but wanted famous time. In reality the industry has a black eye for a very good reason.
People are geared to believe the lies a violator tells about their parking violation and subsequent enforcement action. Everyone loves a good mean tow driver innocent vehicle owner story. Many times they are real since a majority of the operators don’t help the industry by their questionable and/or illegal actions.
The Private Property Impound (PPI) industry has always had a black eye for how the business has been conducted. Denver is the home of the Denver Boot invented by an East High School shop teacher in the early 50’s for the Denver Police Department to help recoup unpaid traffic tickets. Denver’s first private property impound tows were done on East Colfax across the street from the Zanza Bar that was featured in a Clint Eastwood movie. A lot has changed in Denver since then with sky high rents and limited parking creating a parking nightmare for many. There is a real parking problem that needs enforcement of some type.
By the time a property hires a company like ours they have tried warnings and found they don’t work. They have tried to deal with it by placing expensive signs throughout their property trying to get compliance. They have confronted people themselves only to find they are ill equipped to deal with parking violators. Simply put warnings don’t work, signs don’t work and rules in leases don’t work so a property has to resort to the only enforcement that is available towing or booting.
The biggest problem is not the method of enforcement, but how the enforcement is executed. A lot of the problems the PUC deals with come from high volume lots often referred to as hitter lots or communities.
HITTER LOT-The industry jargon for a lot of tows or boots can be had with little work.
Small businesses, strip malls and restaurants need towing enforcement because they are limited on space. If they have a violator, they need to have that vehicle removed so the parking space is open for another customer. As you will see many places have signs stating a time limit on parking. In retail turnover of the parking space is critical to the viability of the business. Park It Right and Towing Done Right do not enforce parking rules on these types of properties. We will only respond when called by the property manager. This is a much-needed service, but it has its obvious problems.
HITTER PROPERTY-Apartment and HOA communities that have a high volume of parking violators resulting in constant towing or booting. Often these properties will have 20-30 vehicles towed/booted a day. There is no fix other than to keep towing and booting. Companies do “Raiding Parties” where they will have pick trucks taking cars off the property to run to a staging area where flatbed tow trucks are waiting to load them to run them to their yard two at a time. Some companies have enough trucks that they have their transfer trucks running them to the yard while the pick truck continues to pull cars. This is supposed to be illegal but happens all the time.
It is those two types of properties that pervert this industry. The property owners or managers often expect kick backs from the towing company and the towing companies gladly give it in straight cash, vehicles or other forms of pay to play.
Our approach is our service does not give kick backs of any kind in fact I believe we should be paid for our service by the property. We feel this would take the pressure off of companies to “get” someone to help pay for their service. Unfortunately, due to the actions of the industry very few Apartment, HOA, or Businesses want to pay for parking enforcement. This sets the stage for a lot of egregious actions by unscrupulous operators.
Park It Right was mainly developed to provide patrol services that reduce parking violators prior to enforcement-contrary to the hitter lot mentality. We still do immediate enforcement when a vehicle is found in violation of a parking rule as set out by the property that requires immediate enforcement; firelane, handicap, landscaping, double parking and other infractions usually require immediate enforcement.
PATROL PROPERTY-Apartment and HOA communities that have a low to medium level of violators not needing constant enforcement. This service is usually handled by security companies that also use conventional boots. Most security companies are effective at enforcement since their main focus is security. Many violations on these properties require prior warning using our cloud based app that records the violation, time frame to correct, vehicle info and pictures-posted signs are considered a prior warning as well.
MANAGER CALL IN PROPERTY-Just as the name implies we respond when called.
The execution of these types of enforcement is where the biggest issues arise.
When putting together Park It Right I looked at each area I thought would be regulated or was a problem in the industry.
We carry more liability insurance than PUC requires of a towing carrier.
1. Our rates are slightly lower than a tow impound but by far more convenient and effective.
2. Our phones are answered by our employees 24/7
3. Our complaint department responds within 48 hours, but most often in less than 4 hours.
4. We document everything with GPS, Recordings and Photos
5. We record every phone call to ensure proper handling
6. We record every interaction with anyone on property
7. We have a contract with each property that specifically spells out what we are to enforce
8. We are licensed in every city that requires us to be licensed – most at least for head or use tax
9. Our remote release boot allows people to be on their way in minutes
10. My people are employees and wear uniforms
11. Our vehicles are clearly marked
12. They all wear body cams
As you can imagine there is a lot of expense in doing it right that is what makes regulating our rates worrisome to me. My costs are considerably higher than a pirate company that regulations won’t stop. You have had people in Boulder selling packages of boots so they can start their own booting business for years. I would imagine that the problem might be from one of these guys. Regulating won’t help in this matter because they are already breaking other city laws I would imagine. From the inside what I have seen over the years is someone will run illegally until they get prosecuted by the local police. I even recommended to PUC that they not worry so much about regulating every t and i that they focus on letting the cities prosecute people when they commit crimes.
I would imagine that the person in Boulder has actually committed some type of crime ie extortion, trespass, fraud or ? Instead of creating more bureaucracy that is ineffective at best why not help the good operators provide good service? Bad players always get their karma-you do bad business it catches up to you. Having been in this industry since the early 70’s I have seen a lot of crooks, gangsters, thugs and thieves. None of them make it and by the time new rules come into play they are long gone. Leaving only the good operators to carry the load of another costly regulation.
Through an unusual chain of events I also own a towing company that is regulated by PUC. I started this company in November to take over from my old tow company Parking Authority (I sold 4 years ago). I wanted to make sure I was doing everything right, so I contacted PUC numerous times to get direction on ensuring I was going to be doing things correctly as I combined both companies. My concern was before I would call a tow company when I needed a tow and just signed for it as the property agent. I wanted to see how that would be handled now that I also owned a towing company. I couldn’t and still haven’t gotten an answer.
I have been penalized for no date on the front of the agreement even though there was a date on the signature page. I have been penalized for sign placement on a divided property (I did not have authority to place the sign on someone else’s property as PUC stated I needed to) that clearly had our sign placed at its actual property entrance. I have been penalized 5 times so far on things I requested help from PUC on in the beginning to ensure I would avoid this. I have asked PUC and the Department of Revenue for help on processing the paperwork properly for the towing impounds. All they give us is a simple step by step that does not cover how to actually fill out the forms properly. So the people that buy an abandoned car from us end up going back and forth to DMV until we get it right-each DMV person asks for something different. I still haven’t gotten any help other than learning from all the corrections we have had to make.
We are required to have a licensed Dealer signs some of our paperwork to eliminate cars within 60 days. If we don’t dispose of the vehicles within 60 days we need to provide a Statement of Fact that we did not commit Fraud by selling it beyond that date. We are tasked with disposing of these vehicles often at a loss and the vehicles that may sell for more than cost we are expected to pay the state the excess-without any concern for our costs or loses on the other impounds.
As I explained I even asked PUC to tell me what Phoenix Towing and Recovery did to get a Felony charge and I was instructed to find it myself. Why can’t the regulatory body actually help us to operate within the scope instead of left to go forward blind? I am a License Colorado Master Plumber with DORA and they help me at every turn when I needed it. So I am regulated at my peril when my regulators won’t help me before the fact.
In fact, our industry is facing a huge problem with sky rocketing costs, limited labor pool and extensive regulations are making it much more expensive to operate than the rates allow. Having some bureaucrat set rates on an industry they know nothing about doesn’t make sense unless they are just trying to close down or cripple the industry. At the time Denver needs parking enforcement more than ever before.
There are several security companies that offer booting with the largest problem operators working in Boulder. Boulder is not a very good town to attempt to enforce parking with a tow truck since a lot of the areas are very confined. This makes Boulder a city that has a lot of private booting. The biggest complaints I get are on the response time to remove the boot and the lack of interaction or verification. I don’t know any of this for a fact just what I hear from potential clients. We don’t do Boulder at this time.
Now let me go over why our services are needed. As you know Denver and most metropolitan areas are growing at a considerable rate. Most of this new building is dense in nature limiting surface street parking. The high rents/land values have made it extremely difficult for people to live on their own so they get roommates to help cover the expenses. Often times these roommates aren’t on the lease taking up a valuable resident space. So now you have more and more people living in smaller and smaller areas that weren’t designed for the influx of cars.
As you know when you go visit your neighborhood business there is no parking to be had without a walk. Many people aren’t willing to walk so they park in places they should not park. Often right in front of the sign that says NO PARKING. Many in our society approach life with an entitled attitude which dramatically compounds the parking problems of an already bad parking situation.
As I stated before warnings and signs don’t work to curb people from parking in violation. A person that parks against the rules does so knowing the rules but deciding not to follow them. The only way to effect change is to penalize the violation via a boot or tow impound.
Violators will park on the grass, sidewalk, block other vehicles in, block trash cans, block business space, park in fire lanes and handicap spaces just to name a few. They are entitled to park there since there was no where else to park or that they were just going to be a minute. The excuses are always blaming someone other than themselves for the violation that resulted in the enforcement action.
It is also this same violator that is gifted at telling stories about events that require us to record every phone call, body cam every interaction, conduct all correspondence via email, take photos of everything to ensure no one can refute our enforcement action. We are under constant accusation about “illegal towing and booting” from violators. Knowing this most of our systems are designed to prove the vehicle was in violation when it was warned, booted or towed. It is the violators behavior that require us to go the extra mile to record and document everything.
The reality we see is the majority of parking violators are repeat offenders that often park in violation of the parking rules. They scream the loudest about their unfair treatment after parking right in front of the sign saying NO PARKING. They are willing to lie to get out of their violation even when presented with the picture proof to the contrary. Every large community has a need for parking enforcement and I know regulations won’t help prevent the bad operators.
When we see someone in violation, we will either give them a warning notice, boot their vehicle or impound their vehicle by tow truck. When we see a vehicle in violation we open our enforcement app to check on the property criteria. We then take the action the contract states we need to take for that violation. We record all the vehicles information and location. We take extensive pictures using our enforcement app that all of our managers have access to through their dashboard. As soon as we hit save our managers have all the information at their figure tips.
That allows the manager to deal with the violator when they claim we towed or booted their car illegally. Permits are the biggest one people try to refute which is why we usually take 15-20 pictures of a permit violator. When they claim their permit was in the vehicle we have them provide a picture of it so we can compare it to ours. This is also why we do everything through email to ensure we are able to back up our enforcement action with recordings, photos, GPS location or other important information to refute their claims. If we were in the wrong, we release it at no charge.
Regulations won’t help the competitors that sit in the shadows of a parking lot hoping for a violator to park. Often times they have hidden or obscured the signs or kept the lot exceptionally dark. They have a deal with the property owner to split the revenue of any tows or boots they get. The advantage to the tow/boot company is that they don’t have to do anything other than run back and forth to their yard with tows or sit there and boot multiple people at a time.
Not sure how you can regulate that since it takes a certain type of person to participate in pay for play to begin with. Never sure regulating morality works out so well I always believe the marketplace takes care of the bad operators. Of course, some of the deals happen at a much higher level where cars, trips and other pay to play happens by people wearing suits that control lots of properties.
I included our early press release and an article I wrote for the HOA Association news letter.
Respectfully
Joel Perri
President
Office: 855-727-5487 800-TOW-4805
joel@ParkItRight.net
www.ParkItRight.net www.TowingDoneRight.com
Parking Management Services
| Joel Perri <joel@parkitright.net> | Jul 8, 2019, 11:21 PM | ||
| to Sam | |||
Hello Sam,
Looks like I sent you the wrong press release.
Joel Perri
President
Office: 855-727-5487 800-TOW-4805
joel@ParkItRight.net
www.ParkItRight.net www.TowingDoneRight.com
Parking Management Services
| Sam Brasch <sbrasch@cprmail.org> | Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 12:25 PM | ||
| to me | |||
Hey Joel,
This is an amazing bit of background on you and your industry. I appreciate all the context. It is already helping me put together questions for this evening. We can work through those tonight. Let me know if anything comes up, but otherwise, looking forward to seeing you at 8:30pm!
Sam
| Joel Perri <joel@parkitright.net> | Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 12:43 PM | ||
| to Sam | |||
Hello Sam
We will see you at 5056 E. 48th Ave at 8:30pm
Joel Perri
President
Office: 855-727-5487 800-TOW-4805
joel@ParkItRight.net
www.ParkItRight.net www.TowingDoneRight.com
Parking Management Services
| Joel Perri <joel@parkitright.net> | Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 9:28 AM | ||
| to Sam | |||
Good Morning Sam,
I hope you had a good time last night. I did want to clarify what I mean by scumbag since I used that a lot=someone taking advantage of people by not doing things properly or legally. I also wanted to contact Senate President Leroy Garcia to voice my opinion. You stated you had some information on what happened can you forward that to me? Have a great day-I will send you some recordings and some email responses from our handling of a booted vehicle.
Joel Perri
President
Office: 855-727-5487 800-TOW-4805
joel@ParkItRight.net
www.ParkItRight.net www.TowingDoneRight.com
Parking Management Services
| Sam Brasch <sbrasch@cprmail.org> | Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 9:37 AM | ||
| to me | |||
Hey Joel,
Thanks for the clarification. I’ll keep that in mind. If you want to reach Senator Garcia, his email is Leroy.Garcia.Senate@state.co.us. If, however, you’re looking for the guy who’s really behind the new booti.ng regulations, that’s Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg. His email is steve@stevefenberg.org.
Thanks again for all your time last night!
Sam
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 9:29 AM Joel Perri <joel@parkitright.net> wrote:
>
> Good Morning Sam,
>
> I hope you had a good time last night. I did want to clarify what I mean by scumbag since I used that a lot=someone taking advantage of people by not doing things properly or legally. I also wanted to contact Senate President Leroy Garcia to voice my opinion. You stated you had some information on what happened can you forward that to me? Have a great day-I will send you some recordings and some email responses from our handling of a booted vehicle.
>
> Joel Perri
> President
> Office: 855-727-5487 800-TOW-4805
> joel@ParkItRight.net
> www.ParkItRight.net www.TowingDoneRight.com
>
> Parking Management Services
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 11:41 AM Sam Brasch <sbrasch@cprmail.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Joel,
>>
>> This is Sam Brasch with Colorado Public Radio. I’m working on a story about private booting companies in Colorado and new regulations from the PUC. I’m looking for comments from a business owner. Any chance you’d be up to sit for an interview about Park It Right, LLC, how the business works, and what the new regulations might mean for the company?
>>
>> I’d be happy to talk on the phone, but it’d be best if I could come to your office to get the best audio quality.
>>
>> Thx!
>>
>> Sam
>> Sam Brasch
>> General Assignment Reporter, CPR News
>> Colorado Public Radio
>> Bridges Broadcast Center
>> 7409 S. Alton Ct. | Centennial, CO 80112
>> (303) 871-9191, ext. 389
>> Let’s connect: @samuelbrasch | Facebook | Twitter
>> www.cpr.org
Sam Brasch
General Assignment Reporter, CPR News
Colorado Public Radio
Bridges Broadcast Center
7409 S. Alton Ct. | Centennial, CO 80112
(303) 871-9191, ext. 389
Let’s connect: @samuelbrasch | Facebook | Twitter
www.cpr.org
| Joel Perri | Jul 11, 2019, 9:39 AM | |
| Thank you | ||
| Joel Perri <joel@parkitright.net> | Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 8:04 AM | ||
| to Sam | |||
Hello Sam,
I hope you had a great Christmas and are enjoying the holiday season. I know I had said I would keep you up to speed on the PUC rulemaking, but time flies and before you know it we are neck deep in the battle to save our business. PUC adopted overly oppressive rules that would put us out of business with a rate of $120.00. In our initial response to the NOPR we laid out our case and took a couple of politically incorrect shots of standing up to the corruption that leads the State of Colorado government against an industry of less than 10 operators. Talk about a waste of resources.
Anyways I have attached for you our first response that did nothing to sway the PUC as they issued their final rules that effectively ends our booting company. We hired an attorney that has been an attorney that has represented people against unethical tows giving him a good knowledge of the industry plus he has represented us for 4 years now. His response is enclosed for you to read over. We intend to take this all the way if necessary but I believe we have good standing with our latest response.
Rumor on the street is that the TRPC (Towing & Recovery Professional of Colorado) with Troy Porras of Wyatts leading the push was behind the scenes work PUC against us in this process. We had a strange set of events occur as we were trying to get our business operating in a legal manner. PUC had associated us with my old company Parking Authority that had developed a bad reputation after I had sold it in 2015. Due to this we had many issues with PUC in the beginning trying to understand how to mesh our booting company with our towing company. PUC failed to respond to my requests for help until they found me in violation and fined me. Instead of helping us before we made a mistake they waited till we made the mistake.
I had asked PUC for help and finally got Adam String to come out to our offices to look over our operation. Adam told my team that he had just become the supervisor and would like to help us be compliant. This meeting gave Adam a human view of us that he didn’t have before because all the negative reports he was getting from people about our booting and association with Parking Authority. During his meeting he stated that several PUC staff he was in charge of were caught doing something with Troy Porras of Wyatts that was giving him an unfair advantage over us. He didn’t go any further than that and we thought nothing of it until we found out Adam was leaving the PUC. This was a major shock to us which led us to think all sorts of conspiracy theories. Was he fired for trying to expose corruption? Did he step on a powerful persons toes?
Adam had invited me to a training session with PUC staff and Revenue Department people for paperwork processing. An event organized by the TRPC. I was told yesterday by Mike SImpson of Gotcha Recovery that Adam was given a 2014 truck by Troy. He stated that Adam had driven it to this training session where Mike stated offhandedly “nice truck” indicating he knew where the truck came from. Mike informed me that he knew for a fact that Troy had given him this truck. Now this led me to believe that Adam’s sudden departure was do to this instead of what I had first thought.
During our research we found out that the TRPC and Troy had pushed for a lot of this booting controls. We submitted an Open Records Act request to try to find out about the meetings that led up to the introduction of the NOPR. Who helped with the contents of the proposed rules? The PUC failed to provide what we were looking for in our ORA and provided a list of all interested parties which were sent the NOPR in September. Our attorney will draft a more detailed ORA if necessary to find what I believe went on behind the scenes.
This is all conjecture and assumption based on what I know or believe I know. I was sued by my partner after I sold my interest in the towing company before I even had a customer. I believe that Troy assisted my partner in the suit with financial aid, but don’t know for sure. The towing industry hates me for the NO TOW SOLUTION that I came up with and my remote release boot. Troy had joined the TRPC and was working to get on any government related board. He was looking for access to powerful people while carrying the purported status of the towing association. Just like any good lobbyist he made friends with people in high places maybe even the Senate President or person that started this. Troy is on some positions that put him in direct contact with people in the state house. Plus Troy is a likeable guy with money that can and does mingle well with the affluent.
The TRPC intentionally leaves me (a member at the request of Troy) off their mailing lists and failed to even send me newsletters. I figure this because there most likely would have been mention of the push to put the big bad booting company out of business. Kinda of a rub when Troy asks you to join and then uses your dues to fight you. So my assumption based on past experience with the TRPC and PUC they had meetings for several months if not years prior to the NOPR being introduced. Did Troy give Adam a truck? Did he give anyone else money, vehicles, trips or ? Troy pushed his agenda through the TRPC and the connections at the State House to create this process to eliminate his competition. Troy provided wildly inaccurate testimony at the hearing that you should listen to.
We will fight and knew in the beginning that when you try to do something better you shine a light on the rats. PUC is truly not looking out for the consumer when they pushed this agenda to keep towing as the only enforcement tool available. JUST MY OPINIONS on this abuse of power
Joel Perri
President
Office: 855-727-5487 800-TOW-4805
joel@ParkItRight.net joel@TowingDoneRight.com
www.ParkItRight.net www.TowingDoneRight.com
