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County discusses "no-preference" towing policy after tow companies cite dispatch concentration
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Dan McClain of Northville, representing several Eaton County towing companies, urged the county to audit tow-dispatch records after a FOIA showed 198 of 268 police-initiated tow calls over six months went to a single company.
Dan McClain of Northville, representing several Eaton County towing and recovery companies, told commissioners the county's FOIA records show most police-initiated tow calls are routed to a single company and asked the commission to review the call-assignment process for fairness and geographic efficiency.
"Of 268 police-initiated calls over six months, 198, nearly 74 percent, went to a single tow company," McClain said. He said many other county-based companies received only a handful of calls during that period and that closer towers were sometimes…
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