Advance Towing

You guys get 5 stars tonight. It’s been raining and I’m an idiot and put my uhaul 26′ on the front lawn. So first I called my BCAA card they said they wouldn’t do. Called 3 others and not tonight. I called these guys and he said 25 – 30 min. It’s been 35min total and the driver has come and gone and I’m back to moving. Plus the driver was super nice.

What a horrible company, I called them for a quote to take my vehicle to the auction and they quoted me $ 70 plus a 10% fuel charge a total of $ 77, to which I agreed.
When I met them at the auction they told me the bill was $ 115.
They said it was $ 70 for the pick up only, I argued and said that the dispatcher quoted me $ 77, they said that it was $ 70 Plus Plus.
CROOKS

No one likes tow trucks. I get that. I have been on the receiving end of the few. Worse is that I hate calling a tow truck on someone, however, we knocked on all the doors of every building to try and find out whose car was parked in our spot. Of course we couldn’t find the person, therefore, we had to call these guys since they were one of the few to pop up on the Google search. Of course the guy saw his car being towed and came running out. The tow truck driver could’ve thrown us under the bus and rated us out that we called him but instead he just pointed out that the guy should’ve been illegally parked. I am glad that the tow truck driver didn’t throw us under the bus ’cause it would’ve been a very ugly confrontation.

Paul from Advance was prompt, patient and a great guy to deal with. Would use again.

I needed a boost on the sea to sky highway. I happened to have a business card for Advanced Towing. I phoned and was patched through to some dope head who was just waking up (at 1:30 in the afternoon). He said he would be there in about an hour or so. While I was waiting he phoned me like 4 times to complain about his life (as if I care). When he finally showed up. He looked like a wannabe biker, skin head (I guess that’s to be expected). His eyes were bugging out of his head and he was talking a mile a minute and wouldn’t shut up. I think he was on something. He had a bad vibe about him. Every instinctive red flag was going up as soon as he pulled up. It got a little nerve racking having this creep around my family. At one point I heard him say ‘Aren’t you a cute thing’ to my 14 year old daughter. He kept screwing around with every other part of the motor except the battery. Not doing anything bad, just not fixing the problem. And he just kept talking and talking and talking about things that I couldn’t even begin to care about. It was almost as if he didn’t want to fix what was wrong because then he would not have anybody to listen to his B.S. life story. It was just a bad experience all around. Yes, he fix the problem. It cost about 60 bucks. But I will never, ever call Advanced Towing again for anything. They need to be more careful about who they hire to drive for them. Do more back round checks or something. Because they’ve got some freaks working for them.

A d-​oh! moment: firmly locking the car door only to realize the keys are not in my hand. I never knew it before, but in these situations, if you don’t have a auto club membership, you can call a towing company to come rescue your keys. The tow truck came within about 20 minutes, and the friendly driver did his magic with the wedge and wire to open the door so I could retrieve the keys. All for the low, low price of $ 47.25.
Although I was really pleased with the service, I feel weird about giving too high a rating to a company that might tow me someday down the line. It could happen.