What are "Hooks"?

A "Hook" is a name given to "Tow Truck Drivers" or "The vehicle used to tow your vehicle."  

Terms like "Call a Hook!", "On the Hook!", "A Hook is on its way!" all refer to a tow truck and its driver to assist a stranded motorist. 

 

When most of us think "Tow Truck driver" the assumption is a greasy, dirty, guy who shows up in a beat up truck who is only called to cause damage to a vehicle that needs assists or "steal" a vehicle for repossession. 

When in reality these Professionals are trained and certified yearly to find the proper way to not only unlock your vehicle, change your tire, but also how to tow your vehicle safely from one location to another. As technology increases in our vehicles, tow truck drivers need to know how to handle these advancements to not disable your vehicle. 

Each time a Tow Truck Driver is at a vehicle, it is due to someone calling them for assistance; may it be you calling them, the police calling them, community management calling them, or a finance company calling them. 

Tow Truck drivers are not allowed to just randomly show up to a vehicle and remove that vehicle. 

 

For many years Tow Truck Drivers, even though available to be on the road 24 hours a day, were not considered "first responders" but recently, with the current training and cross-training, they have been deemed first responders in many states.

This means Tow Truck Drivers are now covered under the Slow Down Move Over Laws.

 

Did you know how our rescue represents those Hooks who have died on the Job?

For every Six(6) days another Tow Truck Driver Dies on the job. These hero's are not lost with us. Our rescue remembers these lives by naming animals, that come into our rescue with out a name, a representation of the driver that has passed .