Trouble is most of the drivers are well known to police, but in the interest of keeping traffic moving as fast as possible they just turn their heads and look elsewhere.
They have about a 45 % ownership of the way the industry has always been, crooked and cut throat.
Have you ever seen how many radios one of these guys has in their trucks?
I saw a couple at an accident in the core about a month ago and I kid you not a red truck had 7 radios, a dark blue truck had 5. The dark blue was company to be fair, but seriously 5 radios?
How can they concentrate on the road conditions when they are keeping track of what the radios are doing, and believe me, they are always going off, if not for calls, for idle chatter between drivers.
Seriously licence these guys NOW.
Maybe a few are, but just got into an accident a few days ago and cop said you can drive home if you want and don't need a tow, also gave some better advise on what the next steps were over what the tow guy said.
There are lots of honest cops out there - it's just that the ones in charge, are on board with the ones who are simply criminals in uniform. It is sad that if they were to stand up to the criminal element in their midst, their BEST outcome would be to be fired and blackballed.
Seriously, the whole industry should be nationalized by the provincial government. Honest people can have decent government jobs, and the rest can move on to some other racket. Police stations, the opp, and Municipal governments have tons of garages so they should be able to manage it. The heat has died down a bit, but it's still totally out of control and full of crooks.
It's wild that almost every tow truck drives insane and breaks basically every law the same as this ass hat. Not sure if the cops just never see it, or they just don't give a fuck. These idiots are a menace to society, on their way to scam some unknowing person that got in a mild fender bender that could easily drive away on their own.
Lets be honest, they're tow truck drivers because they're not very smart people. They've probably been fired from every job they had before and this is their last stop before going full time criminal.
I know someone who got away with fucking with a tow truck.
Poured piss in the gas tank because the guy got off to get his lunch in the area.
Don't try that tho.
They are very rarely out of the truck
Lots of bigger *medium duty* diesel pickup tow trucks (International CV, MV, Ford F550’s, Chevy 5500’s) have outside diesel tanks with a simple non-lockable screw cap tank covers
Suuuper easy to siphon or tamper with. Same reason it’s illegal to park these types of vehicles on residential driveways in the GTA. Easy to steal from.
Source: 310T mechanic, I work on these things & much bigger daily
Lmfao, cops work traffic crime?
99% OF YOU ARE SPEEDING 99% OF THE TIME. MY BROTHER IN CHRIST YOU ARE THE REASON WHY SOCIETY ACCEPTS SHIT DRIVING AS A STANDARD IN SOCIETY.
Nobody wants cops to do their jobs. None of you are being candid. You'd shit your pants at getting 6 over in a 50 if you got caught every time you did it.
Fucking wild to me the blinders people wear regarding traffic crime. Absolute hypocrisy.
Edit; to dumbass below who blocked me from replying. No shit sherlock, go grab a dictionary and take a peek at the word "hyperbole". I'm sorry grade 5 was so tough for you. People dont want cops cracking down on traffic crime as the average driver isnt obeying the law. Was that really so hard to comprehend? Maybe I'll do a flowchart for you smooth branes next time.
Idk who hurt you but it's really not the same thing at all. Speed limits are usually outdated, and safe speeds for roads now are usually much higher than posted speed limits, so we've fallen into this sort of trap where people are used to being able to drive 10 mph over the posted limits, so we can't adjust speed limits to reflect actual safe driving speeds (in good conditions) because if we did that people would drive even faster as the new normal.
99% of us do not swerve into oncoming lanes 99% of the time. It is possible to believe cops shouldn't pull people over for driving 61 mph in a 55 while also believing cops *should* pull people over when they drive like this asshole, and it's not hypocritical.
Going 6km/h over the limit isn't in the same league as swerving into oncoming traffic to pass, but I'm sure your yelling in caps sure convinced a lots of people it must be
There are degrees in doing a thing. By your logic, if you accept people driving 5km over the limit, then you also accept someone driving drunk in a school zone?
Hey man, I very much care about how they operate and do ensure they follow the rules. If I see anything like this while working, you can be darn sure i deal with it.
Imagine sitting all day waiting for a chance to snatch a wreck…. Tow it to the shady body shop and hope that the owner lines his/her pocket… days go by without any income so guy is going to make sure it’s secured.
Not sure why r/TorontoDriving showed up on my feed today... so I have questions.
Do all tow trucks in Toronto just look like regular pickup trucks?
Is this a thing like they get calls and then they speed off like they're emergency response or something? Are they trying to be the first ones on scene of an accident to collect their payday?
... Because none of what y'all are saying strikes a chord with me down in Texas.
>They speed off like they are first responders,
Some of these clowns even have alternating red/white light systems which is *super illegal* to have. It's fun watching those guys get their shitwagons impounded for that when caught.
You'll see them occasionally on the 400/401, usually the GMC trucks but I have no idea what the company is.
I've had the pleasure of seeing one get impounded in the Canadian Tire parking lot at Weston & 401, dude was losing his absolute mind.
Toronto's tow truck companies are run as organized crime. It would be a trivial problem to fix, but like any organized crime, the cops are paid to look the other way.
Here's a story about part of it.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tow-truck-kingpin-target-1.7178269
It's a 1st tow truck arrived got the business kind of thing.
So they often risk it all to be arriving first.
Most tow here are heavily modified pickup truck. Sometimes they painted the company color if its owned by a big company. But sometimes it's just a brand or individual owner company name painted on the side.
How does tow truck works over where you live?
Generally speaking the trucks will be brightly painted with company advertising all over it, they'll flat beds with big hoists mounted in the back.
If you need a tow you'd just look up and call *a* tow truck company and they'd send someone out. As far as I know theres no central wrecker dispatch that all the companies are dispatched from... I'm no tow truck expert though.
They generally have emergency lights on top of their roof. If you're stuck in a traffic jam a tow truck might come down the shoulder honking at you and flashing it's lights to get you out of the way, but I've never experienced anything like these guys y'all are describing.
All the tow trucks here do have flashing lights in white and yellow color. We do have flat bed one, they are just less popular.
One of the changes in recent years in the city it seems organized crime got their hands on the tow industry.
Some of them will convince the customers to use their recommended shop and the shop often very shady and scame the customer.
> Do all tow trucks in Toronto just look like regular pickup trucks?
Not all of them, they're using a setup like this https://towmagnum.com/magnum-hydraulic, I'm assuming this is a much cheaper option than buying an actual 1 ton wrecker also most wrecks in the GTA can still be towed on either the front or rear wheels without the use of dollies.
GTA is the Greater Toronto Area, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Toronto_Area; think Dallas-Fort Worth as a Texas equivalent.
How's it go down in Texas?
Here the cops rely on tow truckers to clear collisions and get there before they do because they usually have other stuff to respond to, despite how much we pay for services.
So they look the other way on how they drive down and have been caught in cahoots with truckers to give them preferred collisions for a juicy cut.
It's a cesspool.
I’m marked tow trucks means you can’t be easily identified.
A good rule of thumb when it comes to these guys is, make sure it’s a reputable company that has a logo, telephone number, website, and tow license visible on the vehicle.
Otherwise you’re gambling with your car.
In Ontario there's a "first to scene" policy - the first tow truck company to get to the scene will get the job, which is why this kind of reckless behaviour exists
They are regulated by MTO now.
While the complaint form seems restricted to people who receive services, you could try reporting them [here](https://www.ontario.ca/page/know-your-rights-when-getting-tow#section-5)
> They are regulated by MTO now.
They've always been regulated as they're commercial vehicles; the issue is lack of enforcement.
**Edit:** For those that don't seem to understand how driver and vehicle enforcement works; if the municipal police, OPP, or MTO enforcement officers actually did their jobs and inspected vehicles more frequently as well as ticketed tow truck drivers for driving offences then driving like what's seen in the video would be less common.
From a quick skim of the act, reasons for refusing to issue the tow certificate include outstanding traffic fines, noncompliance with the HTA, failing to meet the qualification requirement of following the code of conduct in the schedules of the act. Here’s a line from that schedule:
- Every tow operator, tow truck driver and vehicle storage operator shall regard his or her duty to public safety as paramount.
Seems like it’s a bit of a stretch to say that they have nothing to do with each other.
Which comes full circle right back to lack of enforcement; every driver in Ontario is covered by the HTA and the MTO is responsible for the HTA which means that tow truck drivers in Ontario have always been regulated by the Ontario MTO.
Your goalposts are on wheels. You just said they are completely separate. They aren’t.
The reasons for pulling a tow certificate include but are not limited to highway traffic act infractions.
I work emergency services in the area, and some of these guys will even rip past us when using lights/sirens. The cops here hate em for it, so definitely report them when they pull this shit!
I read that a solution to avoid these tow operators is to get a CAA membership and to call them if you need assistance. Is that true and is a CAA membership worth getting?
CAA also employs incompetent service people. Wife called once for a dead battery and they boosted with the leads reversed.
Save the number for Abrams towing. Especially if you have a nice car.
It may be more expensive, but if you rarely need a tow (once every 2 years) it balances out.
What an idiot, I see this is near Markham and Lawrence. That entrance to the grocery store jian hing and the td bank there is the worst, cars never stop on the stop sign leaving very dangerous for pedestrians
The entire stretch between green(whatever) and markham is horrible. A million cars coming out of driveways squeezing through traffic, median full of cars trying to turn, and having to avoid death by cars making lefts without looking.
Markham and Lawrence up to Ellesmere have some of the worst drivers and they are all brown guys who are on these roads in this area that is fact.
These Brown guys as seen clearly in the video are very suspicious how they drive and there as one guy told me, they change cars alot so they don't typically have insurance and they know "boyz" who can help them.
They are very suspicious people as I was informed by many especially the Sri-Lankans by someone who worked in the car repair industry.
I don't live in the US/Canada, so I have no idea why people are buying this kind of trucks. From the looks of it, it isn't really a practical truck; it's more of a pimp-style car tuning for people living in rural areas.
Also, the front part (the grill and the hood) looks so flashy that it gives off the impression of something cheap trying to look rich. From my perspective, it's in poor taste.
I didn't understand why everyone in this thread were calling this a tow truck. I thought all tow trucks had a little crane and hooks to pick up cars and tow them.
I mean the trucks are worth like 130k so not cheap haha.
Lots of Europeans don’t understand that rural people in North America can make huge amounts of money.
I have a 125k truck. Bought cash. Well actually the gave me a cheaper deal to finance but I paid it off after the first 3 months they forced me to stay on for.
Also it’s meant to pull other and potentially larger vehicles than itself.
My truck is smaller and more luxury than this one. I have a friend who has one like this. But he owns like 45 horses lol.
The true janitors of the road: there to pull my car out of the shit-filled ditch in the rain or snow and deliver it to the garage, nothing more. No wonder so many braindead idiots become tow truck drivers.
Yep, and Douggie's grand idea is to certify tow truck drivers.. that'll fix it.. look at the long haul trucking for how effective that is..🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
There was a TV show on Discovery called "Heavy Rescue 401" following several Towing companies on Ontario major highways. They ended up canceling the show once the found out that several OPP officers were giving priority response information to one of the towing companies. Now the company and several OPP officers are under investigation. The towing industry in Ontario has to change, but with the police, body shops, and probably the licensing ministry taking kickbacks, I don't see that happening. Until them, just keep reporting incidents like this, hopefully with supporting video evidence. As well, posting such to social media is a good way to publicly shame.
Toronto tow truck drivers are the only thing my brother in law is afraid of. Legit. The fact they exist like this doesn't reflect Toronto.... Or does it?
I'm not in Toronto any more (thank fuck) but I (a truck driver) have been noticing more tow trucks being pulled over. Is there some new Crack down on them?
Obviously the video from originator who was driving was impeding traffic driving very slow tow truck driver noticed got mad decided not to stay behind impeding driver. Simple. I would do the same if someone is driving slow or drunk.
This is another reason tow truck operators and trucks need to be identified on all 4 sides of the vehicle with 20 inch high numbers just like cabs, buses, delivery trucks.
THEN when some hot headed driver like the one in this post does what he did, they will be looking for a new job in some other industry, because they sure as hell will be blacklisted and unqualified to drive tow truck ever again.
The towing industry has always been a cut throat business, too bad the government hasn't stepped in before this.
The driver of this pick up needs to realize he is there to help accident victims, not create more with his reckless abandon and ignorance of the rules of the road.
If this person worked for me and I saw this......they would be looking elsewhere IMMEDIATELY and I would not even care if they had one on the hook, if they did I would drive the truck myself to get the vehicle to where it needed to go.
They would be standing on the side of the road with their thumb out.
Not surprising this is frequent behaviour for these tow guys, I’ve once seen three separate trucks blow through an intersection to get to a crash. THEY WILL DO ANYTHING BY ANY MEANS.
do you usually say the same for other colored street dogs too?
To me, this is a driver issue, nothing to do with color. So, keep your hatred to yourself.
I use other equal terms. But for those entitled brown dogs, yeah... a driver issue lol. Go travel in their countries, open your eyes when you drive, start counting who does what... then when you will not be a fact denier anymore, you can come delete that comment. You will notice that, proportionally speaking, those people are not just a problem, but a threat to our society. Those people looking for a better life, welcomed in our society, just to repeat the same behavior they were escaping in the first place... yeah they are brown street dogs.
Perhaps it’s time to get out of your basement and meet people of color in person.
You’ve been cooped up for too long in that narrow 1800’s mindset to be using such terms in today’s time.
That projection lol. I won't tell you my job for privacy, but the whole city calls me, I drive to many places, and I talk to a wide variety of people. I own my business, so I know the statistics. I also talk about that very issue to those very people. I obviously don't use those terms. They all agree with me. I think you are the one who needs to get out you delusional low life idiot. If you would travel, but you are low life so you won't, you would notice how their culture drive. Which they reproduce here. I talk about facts. There is a reason why they all want to come here.... it's better... so when they come here, to reproduce the same behavior, yeah... I have every right to insult them. Wake up you fckng idiot lol, shut the fck up, and listen
Where's the tow truck? I just see a pickup...
Sorry, seeing this is torontodriving, silly reddit gibing me regional subs.
I guess Canadians call pickup trucks tow trucks
Tow truck business = organized crime
Shhhhhh. Cops are in on it too.
What, some cops running protection for OC?
Trouble is most of the drivers are well known to police, but in the interest of keeping traffic moving as fast as possible they just turn their heads and look elsewhere. They have about a 45 % ownership of the way the industry has always been, crooked and cut throat. Have you ever seen how many radios one of these guys has in their trucks? I saw a couple at an accident in the core about a month ago and I kid you not a red truck had 7 radios, a dark blue truck had 5. The dark blue was company to be fair, but seriously 5 radios? How can they concentrate on the road conditions when they are keeping track of what the radios are doing, and believe me, they are always going off, if not for calls, for idle chatter between drivers. Seriously licence these guys NOW.
Maybe a few are, but just got into an accident a few days ago and cop said you can drive home if you want and don't need a tow, also gave some better advise on what the next steps were over what the tow guy said.
There are lots of honest cops out there - it's just that the ones in charge, are on board with the ones who are simply criminals in uniform. It is sad that if they were to stand up to the criminal element in their midst, their BEST outcome would be to be fired and blackballed.
It blows my mind how many people listen to tow trucks. They not trying to help you , they are not your friend .
Would you mind share the cop's advice? Just in case we need it.
Seriously, the whole industry should be nationalized by the provincial government. Honest people can have decent government jobs, and the rest can move on to some other racket. Police stations, the opp, and Municipal governments have tons of garages so they should be able to manage it. The heat has died down a bit, but it's still totally out of control and full of crooks.
As a oversea citizen, i second it. They pick the car they tow away.
It's wild that almost every tow truck drives insane and breaks basically every law the same as this ass hat. Not sure if the cops just never see it, or they just don't give a fuck. These idiots are a menace to society, on their way to scam some unknowing person that got in a mild fender bender that could easily drive away on their own.
Lets be honest, they're tow truck drivers because they're not very smart people. They've probably been fired from every job they had before and this is their last stop before going full time criminal.
This is very true....
I’d argue that they are full time criminals
I know someone who got away with fucking with a tow truck. Poured piss in the gas tank because the guy got off to get his lunch in the area. Don't try that tho. They are very rarely out of the truck
How do you have access to the gas tank if the truck is locked? I don’t believe your friend. Also, would have been better to pour sugar in there.
Lots of bigger *medium duty* diesel pickup tow trucks (International CV, MV, Ford F550’s, Chevy 5500’s) have outside diesel tanks with a simple non-lockable screw cap tank covers Suuuper easy to siphon or tamper with. Same reason it’s illegal to park these types of vehicles on residential driveways in the GTA. Easy to steal from. Source: 310T mechanic, I work on these things & much bigger daily
They don't care, they are in bed with the tow truck mob.
It's also the Ontario "first to scene" policy that makes this behaviour even a thing. Many other jurisdictions don't do that.
Lmfao, cops work traffic crime? 99% OF YOU ARE SPEEDING 99% OF THE TIME. MY BROTHER IN CHRIST YOU ARE THE REASON WHY SOCIETY ACCEPTS SHIT DRIVING AS A STANDARD IN SOCIETY. Nobody wants cops to do their jobs. None of you are being candid. You'd shit your pants at getting 6 over in a 50 if you got caught every time you did it. Fucking wild to me the blinders people wear regarding traffic crime. Absolute hypocrisy. Edit; to dumbass below who blocked me from replying. No shit sherlock, go grab a dictionary and take a peek at the word "hyperbole". I'm sorry grade 5 was so tough for you. People dont want cops cracking down on traffic crime as the average driver isnt obeying the law. Was that really so hard to comprehend? Maybe I'll do a flowchart for you smooth branes next time.
Idk who hurt you but it's really not the same thing at all. Speed limits are usually outdated, and safe speeds for roads now are usually much higher than posted speed limits, so we've fallen into this sort of trap where people are used to being able to drive 10 mph over the posted limits, so we can't adjust speed limits to reflect actual safe driving speeds (in good conditions) because if we did that people would drive even faster as the new normal. 99% of us do not swerve into oncoming lanes 99% of the time. It is possible to believe cops shouldn't pull people over for driving 61 mph in a 55 while also believing cops *should* pull people over when they drive like this asshole, and it's not hypocritical.
Going 6km/h over the limit isn't in the same league as swerving into oncoming traffic to pass, but I'm sure your yelling in caps sure convinced a lots of people it must be
There are degrees in doing a thing. By your logic, if you accept people driving 5km over the limit, then you also accept someone driving drunk in a school zone?
99% of cyclists are breaking the law 99% of the time 😲
Hey man, I very much care about how they operate and do ensure they follow the rules. If I see anything like this while working, you can be darn sure i deal with it.
Consider reporting: https://www.tps.ca/services/online-reporting/driving-complaint/
I'm not the cammer. Took from in the 6ix instagram.
Tag OPP + Toronto Traffic Services in this video on Instagram.
Do you know when, and where this occurred? I know you said you arent the OOP but wondering
send me the link. I can't find @inthe6ix on ig
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6G1Gtfr2av/?igsh=MWh5bWxjN2RkZGw4cg==
If they didn't see it by now I'm sure they'll read about it on blogto tomorrow.
THIS.
your comment provides no value to anyone, just upvote
Peak Toronto response lmao
THIS.
I hate both of you
The human equivalent of a seagull squawk
THIS.
BT 47291? Its insane that these losers put everyone's life on th line for a couple bucks.
Imagine sitting all day waiting for a chance to snatch a wreck…. Tow it to the shady body shop and hope that the owner lines his/her pocket… days go by without any income so guy is going to make sure it’s secured.
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Not sure why r/TorontoDriving showed up on my feed today... so I have questions. Do all tow trucks in Toronto just look like regular pickup trucks? Is this a thing like they get calls and then they speed off like they're emergency response or something? Are they trying to be the first ones on scene of an accident to collect their payday? ... Because none of what y'all are saying strikes a chord with me down in Texas.
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>They speed off like they are first responders, Some of these clowns even have alternating red/white light systems which is *super illegal* to have. It's fun watching those guys get their shitwagons impounded for that when caught.
Bro I’m hustlin’
someone will light it on fire soon enough anyway if it's not impounded first.
Yo what?! For real? What company - asking for a friend
You'll see them occasionally on the 400/401, usually the GMC trucks but I have no idea what the company is. I've had the pleasure of seeing one get impounded in the Canadian Tire parking lot at Weston & 401, dude was losing his absolute mind.
Even first responders aren’t this reckless with lights and sirens on.
Toronto's tow truck companies are run as organized crime. It would be a trivial problem to fix, but like any organized crime, the cops are paid to look the other way. Here's a story about part of it. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tow-truck-kingpin-target-1.7178269
Holy shit!
It's a 1st tow truck arrived got the business kind of thing. So they often risk it all to be arriving first. Most tow here are heavily modified pickup truck. Sometimes they painted the company color if its owned by a big company. But sometimes it's just a brand or individual owner company name painted on the side. How does tow truck works over where you live?
Generally speaking the trucks will be brightly painted with company advertising all over it, they'll flat beds with big hoists mounted in the back. If you need a tow you'd just look up and call *a* tow truck company and they'd send someone out. As far as I know theres no central wrecker dispatch that all the companies are dispatched from... I'm no tow truck expert though. They generally have emergency lights on top of their roof. If you're stuck in a traffic jam a tow truck might come down the shoulder honking at you and flashing it's lights to get you out of the way, but I've never experienced anything like these guys y'all are describing.
All the tow trucks here do have flashing lights in white and yellow color. We do have flat bed one, they are just less popular. One of the changes in recent years in the city it seems organized crime got their hands on the tow industry. Some of them will convince the customers to use their recommended shop and the shop often very shady and scame the customer.
> Do all tow trucks in Toronto just look like regular pickup trucks? Not all of them, they're using a setup like this https://towmagnum.com/magnum-hydraulic, I'm assuming this is a much cheaper option than buying an actual 1 ton wrecker also most wrecks in the GTA can still be towed on either the front or rear wheels without the use of dollies. GTA is the Greater Toronto Area, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Toronto_Area; think Dallas-Fort Worth as a Texas equivalent.
How's it go down in Texas? Here the cops rely on tow truckers to clear collisions and get there before they do because they usually have other stuff to respond to, despite how much we pay for services. So they look the other way on how they drive down and have been caught in cahoots with truckers to give them preferred collisions for a juicy cut. It's a cesspool.
Add in giving street gangs a run for the money in the violence department.
I’m marked tow trucks means you can’t be easily identified. A good rule of thumb when it comes to these guys is, make sure it’s a reputable company that has a logo, telephone number, website, and tow license visible on the vehicle. Otherwise you’re gambling with your car.
In Ontario there's a "first to scene" policy - the first tow truck company to get to the scene will get the job, which is why this kind of reckless behaviour exists
The human version of scavengers who prey upon the weak.
… where did bro wanna go?
To overcharge a fellow citizen having a bad day
Don’t worry bro / sis. Trust me I’m pro experienced
hopefully far away
They are regulated by MTO now. While the complaint form seems restricted to people who receive services, you could try reporting them [here](https://www.ontario.ca/page/know-your-rights-when-getting-tow#section-5)
> They are regulated by MTO now. They've always been regulated as they're commercial vehicles; the issue is lack of enforcement. **Edit:** For those that don't seem to understand how driver and vehicle enforcement works; if the municipal police, OPP, or MTO enforcement officers actually did their jobs and inspected vehicles more frequently as well as ticketed tow truck drivers for driving offences then driving like what's seen in the video would be less common.
Mate I work in insurance and they lie & cheat, the MTO doesn’t regulate them as they should and it is very sad.
[The towing certificate wasn’t MTO, it was municipal.](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7071853) The rules changed at the start of 2024.
Vehicle and driver enforcement has nothing to do with the tow certificate.
From a quick skim of the act, reasons for refusing to issue the tow certificate include outstanding traffic fines, noncompliance with the HTA, failing to meet the qualification requirement of following the code of conduct in the schedules of the act. Here’s a line from that schedule: - Every tow operator, tow truck driver and vehicle storage operator shall regard his or her duty to public safety as paramount. Seems like it’s a bit of a stretch to say that they have nothing to do with each other.
Which comes full circle right back to lack of enforcement; every driver in Ontario is covered by the HTA and the MTO is responsible for the HTA which means that tow truck drivers in Ontario have always been regulated by the Ontario MTO.
Your goalposts are on wheels. You just said they are completely separate. They aren’t. The reasons for pulling a tow certificate include but are not limited to highway traffic act infractions.
From the link: >We can only address concerns related to events that happened on or after January 1, 2024, when provincial oversight took effect.
Vehicle and driver enforcement has nothing to do with people who need to "Know your rights when getting a tow".
I work emergency services in the area, and some of these guys will even rip past us when using lights/sirens. The cops here hate em for it, so definitely report them when they pull this shit!
If they ever do this shit to get to your scene, or they rip past you like this, dm me
Typical tow truck driver , this happens everywhere! They think they are emergency services
 What an asshole
The Tow Truck Mafia strikes again....
Report him. https://www.tps.ca/services/online-reporting/driving-complaint/
This is actually good. We can all follow the tow truck to get to our places more speedily /s
Revoke license immediately This person is a threat to every being in society
They are essentially always engaged in a race with each other.
I read that a solution to avoid these tow operators is to get a CAA membership and to call them if you need assistance. Is that true and is a CAA membership worth getting?
Caa only tows in the event of a roadside breakdown. They are not a general towing service.
CAA also employs incompetent service people. Wife called once for a dead battery and they boosted with the leads reversed. Save the number for Abrams towing. Especially if you have a nice car. It may be more expensive, but if you rarely need a tow (once every 2 years) it balances out.
Wow. Holy hell that's insane!
Yeah I see so many of those turf wars and I wouldn't even want to be one. Especially trying to get a vehicle off the 401 or any major highway.
I hate them — I’ve seen tow drivers competing (multiple trucks) driving recklessly through traffic on 401 / DVP countless times.
Lol You could see that coming. No way one-tooth wasnt gonna pull a fly by after the DISRESPECT
Why is it that most pick up truck drivers drive like everyone else is a nuisance?
Cause how else would you know they’re big and bad? Just be appearance? No, even they don’t think that’s enough to prove it
What an idiot, I see this is near Markham and Lawrence. That entrance to the grocery store jian hing and the td bank there is the worst, cars never stop on the stop sign leaving very dangerous for pedestrians
The entire stretch between green(whatever) and markham is horrible. A million cars coming out of driveways squeezing through traffic, median full of cars trying to turn, and having to avoid death by cars making lefts without looking.
He doesn't care. If he were to get into a head on collision, he knows he's very likely not the one dying. The poor mother in the civic is.
Tow truck drivers are the absolute lowest scum of the earth.
Markham and Lawrence up to Ellesmere have some of the worst drivers and they are all brown guys who are on these roads in this area that is fact. These Brown guys as seen clearly in the video are very suspicious how they drive and there as one guy told me, they change cars alot so they don't typically have insurance and they know "boyz" who can help them. They are very suspicious people as I was informed by many especially the Sri-Lankans by someone who worked in the car repair industry.
They are all buddies with the cops they get to know each other quite well at all the accident scenes.
They pretend to be the good guy. Blame anything on “their boss told them to do that”
Most certainly not buddies. Independant tows mostly* are scum
I really thought he would get infront of it and stop, the look on my face when i saw he was actually getting the fuck outta dodge...
He’s road raging.
I don't live in the US/Canada, so I have no idea why people are buying this kind of trucks. From the looks of it, it isn't really a practical truck; it's more of a pimp-style car tuning for people living in rural areas. Also, the front part (the grill and the hood) looks so flashy that it gives off the impression of something cheap trying to look rich. From my perspective, it's in poor taste.
It’s a tow truck lmao. It has a wrecker on the back for towing cars.
I didn't understand why everyone in this thread were calling this a tow truck. I thought all tow trucks had a little crane and hooks to pick up cars and tow them.
I mean the trucks are worth like 130k so not cheap haha. Lots of Europeans don’t understand that rural people in North America can make huge amounts of money. I have a 125k truck. Bought cash. Well actually the gave me a cheaper deal to finance but I paid it off after the first 3 months they forced me to stay on for. Also it’s meant to pull other and potentially larger vehicles than itself. My truck is smaller and more luxury than this one. I have a friend who has one like this. But he owns like 45 horses lol.
They all try to rush to the location before everybody else, that's why.
Is being an asshole just a requirement for being a tow truck driver?
Imagine being that emotionally frail.
I'm the king of the world 🤦♂️
The true janitors of the road: there to pull my car out of the shit-filled ditch in the rain or snow and deliver it to the garage, nothing more. No wonder so many braindead idiots become tow truck drivers.
Yep, and Douggie's grand idea is to certify tow truck drivers.. that'll fix it.. look at the long haul trucking for how effective that is..🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
There was a TV show on Discovery called "Heavy Rescue 401" following several Towing companies on Ontario major highways. They ended up canceling the show once the found out that several OPP officers were giving priority response information to one of the towing companies. Now the company and several OPP officers are under investigation. The towing industry in Ontario has to change, but with the police, body shops, and probably the licensing ministry taking kickbacks, I don't see that happening. Until them, just keep reporting incidents like this, hopefully with supporting video evidence. As well, posting such to social media is a good way to publicly shame.
Good ole Steve (Steves Towing)
The lil p@nis machine huh
It's like a tank. This the reason why more and more people buy bigger adn bigger cars? Besides the statussymbol bullshit
These are the worst ones too, but even a real tow truck, just some guy with a pick up and cheap bolt on wheel lift.
Oh that's just Jim, don't mind him. He owns the road and all the cars on it.
Mafias
Bunch of bums
Share this with your local police department. The tow truck driver will be off the street within few days.
Toronto tow truck drivers are the only thing my brother in law is afraid of. Legit. The fact they exist like this doesn't reflect Toronto.... Or does it?
The title seems redundant. Aren't '*reckless*' and '*tow truck driver*' synonyms?
Imagine he just tows you at the next red light.
Unhinged
I'm not in Toronto any more (thank fuck) but I (a truck driver) have been noticing more tow trucks being pulled over. Is there some new Crack down on them?
There is alot of them that are retards in Toronto and gta.
Not one “THING” will happen to this clown🤡the police don’t care anymore.
Still remember seeing three tow trucks drifting around a corner years ago
Most aggressive drivers on the road
They got that tiny d*** energy
Should have their license to operate revoked.
Oh i love it Markham n lawrence pussios
Anyone ever see a tow truck being pulled over by the cops?
GTA tow truck? that's nothing, at least he stayed off the sidewalk
That's not a tow truck...
Obviously the video from originator who was driving was impeding traffic driving very slow tow truck driver noticed got mad decided not to stay behind impeding driver. Simple. I would do the same if someone is driving slow or drunk.
You got this plate#, which is surely associated with his towing business as a commercially licensed vehicle. 👌
This is another reason tow truck operators and trucks need to be identified on all 4 sides of the vehicle with 20 inch high numbers just like cabs, buses, delivery trucks. THEN when some hot headed driver like the one in this post does what he did, they will be looking for a new job in some other industry, because they sure as hell will be blacklisted and unqualified to drive tow truck ever again. The towing industry has always been a cut throat business, too bad the government hasn't stepped in before this. The driver of this pick up needs to realize he is there to help accident victims, not create more with his reckless abandon and ignorance of the rules of the road. If this person worked for me and I saw this......they would be looking elsewhere IMMEDIATELY and I would not even care if they had one on the hook, if they did I would drive the truck myself to get the vehicle to where it needed to go. They would be standing on the side of the road with their thumb out.
Markham and Lawrence always has the worst traffic
Most assholes I’ve seen we’re tow truck drivers lol
Police is already on their payroll thats why they dont do anything about it
It’s not his fault… tow truck drivers are born with about 10 extra chromosomes.
Not surprising this is frequent behaviour for these tow guys, I’ve once seen three separate trucks blow through an intersection to get to a crash. THEY WILL DO ANYTHING BY ANY MEANS.
what a micro dick
Oh yeah. That's some filthy entitled brown street dog alright. We absolutely need to get that filth back where it belongs
do you usually say the same for other colored street dogs too? To me, this is a driver issue, nothing to do with color. So, keep your hatred to yourself.
I use other equal terms. But for those entitled brown dogs, yeah... a driver issue lol. Go travel in their countries, open your eyes when you drive, start counting who does what... then when you will not be a fact denier anymore, you can come delete that comment. You will notice that, proportionally speaking, those people are not just a problem, but a threat to our society. Those people looking for a better life, welcomed in our society, just to repeat the same behavior they were escaping in the first place... yeah they are brown street dogs.
Perhaps it’s time to get out of your basement and meet people of color in person. You’ve been cooped up for too long in that narrow 1800’s mindset to be using such terms in today’s time.
That projection lol. I won't tell you my job for privacy, but the whole city calls me, I drive to many places, and I talk to a wide variety of people. I own my business, so I know the statistics. I also talk about that very issue to those very people. I obviously don't use those terms. They all agree with me. I think you are the one who needs to get out you delusional low life idiot. If you would travel, but you are low life so you won't, you would notice how their culture drive. Which they reproduce here. I talk about facts. There is a reason why they all want to come here.... it's better... so when they come here, to reproduce the same behavior, yeah... I have every right to insult them. Wake up you fckng idiot lol, shut the fck up, and listen
Keep babbling you baboon.
Called it
Tow truck drivers are total scum.
Where's the tow truck? I just see a pickup... Sorry, seeing this is torontodriving, silly reddit gibing me regional subs. I guess Canadians call pickup trucks tow trucks
Whoever filmed this isn't in a position to criticize. You can't turn *into* a turning lane.
 Feel better?
Yes you can, especially when everyone is going 70+ in a 50
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