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GDOT bill prompts debate over towing incentives and scope of roadside removal program
Summary
HB 575, a GDOT-sponsored bill containing several departmental changes including codifying the 'trip' incentive towing program, drew extensive committee questions about when the state may authorize paid tows; the committee set the bill aside for further drafting and stakeholder meetings.
A Georgia Department of Transportation bill that would codify several departmental practices, including a program that pays incentives to tow companies to remove large commercial vehicle crashes quickly from interstates, drew sustained questions about scope and safeguards before the committee set the bill aside for further work.
Representative McCollum presented HB 575 (LC 394708S) as a department bill that would alter four areas: the public-notice period for hearings, authority to negotiate with condominium associations, formalizing GDOT's trip program that pays incentives to remove large commercial vehicles, and earlier…
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