PTRAA " BREAKING NEWS " 2008
BALANCE ... every turn of the road summons us to keep our balance for the journey ahead.
Note:July 29, 2008 As you all know we are currently looking for a replacement for Don Jackson, if you know of anyone with the ability to do the job please get the contact information to the PTRAA Board. It is equally important that all dues are paid so that the Association has the funds available when the right person is found.
Note: January 14, 2008 ... As MEMBERS we ask that everyone stay up with whats happening in the Arkansas Towing Industry for 2008... If you have questions ... please call PTRAA President, Junior Phillips, cell 501-529-1942 or PTRAA Executive Director, Don Jackson, 501-812-0805 or fax 501-812-0806 or cell 501-680-4024 Please get to know our ( FOUR ) PTRAA area Vice Presidents and ( Twenty Six ) PTRAA area Directors!!! These Towing Members, are the backbone of the PTRAA Leadership and should be contacted about anything happening in their respective areas of the state concerning TOWING... " FIRST ". We are all here to provide assistance and information ... but remember that they all serve as VOLUNTEERS and work as TOWERS ... just like you!!!
Note: January 14, 2008 ... PTRAA Vice President Betty Turner, is working on resolving issues with the Arkansas Insurance Commission, about any and all Towing claims that are being dumped on ARKANSAS Towers ... without being paid in full by the responsible Insurance Company. Recently, towers are having Insurance Companies... refusing to pay Tow bills and charges, incurred as a direct loss to the Towing firm, for loss of services provided ... from a wreck that the Insurance Company had insured ... and was responsible for by law. NOTICE!!! to all Arkansas Towing companies, who have had, or is having problems with ... insurance companies paying ... for charges handling bad cargo at a dump / or landfill... for all off load charges...for all extra equipment and all extra manpower personnel cost ... or any losses due to Insurance companies refusing to pay!!! Please contact PTRAA Vice President, Betty Turner, 479-752-3403 ASAP!!! Very Important!!! Call ASAP!!!
Note:January 4, 2008 ... Reminder to all PTRAA Vice Presidents and PTRAA Directors. This year PTRAA President Junior Phillips, wants all Members to support our growing and changing PROFESSIONAL Arkansas Towing Association. For 2008 the PTRAA Meeting schedule will be executed by our PTRAA Vice Presidents and PTRAA area Directors. They...will be responsible for ALL PTRAA Meetings going on around ARKANSAS. They will also be responsible to call members... and make them aware of the location, date, and time of each meeting. They will also be responsible for the meeting agenda and guest speakers if any!!! These meetings are held to unite ALL TOWERS and make them aware of the changing conditions and issues that should concern them and all TOWERS... about changes in the ARKANSAS TOWING INDUSTRY. These meetings are also held to unite... and bring NON MEMBER TOWERS... up to date on any changes... and to talk about... what's happening in Towing around Arkansas and to solicit their support and membership in the PTRAA.
Every Director and Member, needs to get involved, support and HELP!!! the PTRAA to become more successful... as YOUR VOICE!!! in the ARKANSAS Towing Industry!!! By joining together, we have a REAL VOICE!!! in your future and YOUR INDUSTRY!!! It's time to stand up and be counted as PROFESSIONAL TOWING LEADERS in ARKANSAS. The responsibility of our overall LEADERSHIP... has been with the PTRAA PRESIDENT and has given this ASSOCIATION a real direction and path to follow. For 2008... the PTRAA President wants everyones support and HELP!!! ... to get to the next level. NEW!!! for 2008 ... Our elected PTRAA Vice Presidents and Directors ... who all serve VOLUNTEERILY... are leading the way by hosting ( 17 ) PTRAA Membership meetings statewide. We also will be looking forward to more PROFESSIONAL Training... from our talented and PROFESSIONAL VOLUNTEER TRAINING STAFF. We will have your 2008 PTRAA MEMBERSHIP PICNIC in Hazen, Arkansas ... and again your 2008 PTRAA Arkansas Towing EXPO... will be held in North Little Rock, Arkansas. All dates and information ... will be posted ASAP!!! later in January, 2008. We ask for everyone to get involved ... and support all 2008 PTRAA EVENTS!!! Get excited and stay informed for 2008!!!
Note: January 4, 2008 ... All Towers should be aware of the New PTRAA alliance with SPRINT / NEXTEL. They have joined the PTRAA as Associate Members and are giving an absolute 13% discount to all PTRAA members... off your SPRINT cell phone bills. FREE phones!!! Your own PTRAA Personal Account Representative... Marc Harrison 501-247-6211 will give you all the details...and your families and employees can be in on the cost savings as well. NEXTEL will also give you an absolute 13% discount on NEXTEL bills, with free phones. A NEW!!! GPS service for phones and Tow trucks is provided at a real cost savings to ALL PTRAA members. This is a Win!!! Win!!! situation for ALL TOWERS in Arkansas and specifically ALL members of the PTRAA. As a TOWING Industry network!!!...TOWERS will be able to talk to TOWERS around the state at no cost for talk time... on your SPRINT cell or NEXTEL minutes. Start saving TODAY!!! and call your PTRAA account representative Marc Harrison 501-247-6211 and schedule an appointment TODAY!!!
Note: January 3, 2008 ... Make sure if you have not paid your Membership dues for 2007, Please do so immediately!!! We are updating our membership rolls...and those not current.. will be dropped!!! Please help our Association, by supporting PTRAA efforts to defend Arkansas Towers and giving all Towers a VOICE!!! in what happens with you legislatively in 2008 and 2009!!! We need your support and Membership dollars to continue this very important work!!!
Note: December 28, 2007 ... The Channel 7 News broadcast that aired on December 27, 2008... stated, that as of 1 January, 2008... All Tow Trucks in Arkansas,... would now have a new Vehicle TAG... designating the vehicle as a TOW TRUCK... on the anniversary of the tags being updated in 2008. This is a NEW LAW!!! and begins January 1, 2008 ... and must be processed through the Arkansas Tow and Recovery Board ... prior to the State Revenue Office... issuing the NEW!!! 2008 TAGS!!! GET LEGAL!!!
Note: December 28, 2007 ... WARNING!!! Arkansas State LAW requires that... ALL TOWERS... must do everything they can... to find owners of vehicles and notify lien holders, that they have their vehicles. Many TOWERS are not following State Law by Notifying owners, or used Car Dealers, Finance Companies etc... who have legal liens on these vehicles. If you are caught... selling any vehicle, without perfecting your lien first... or making every effort to find the owner or lien holder of that vehicle...YOU can get into serious DO..DO... because you did not do the proper paperwork and or follow State Law!!! Serious fines, can and will be levied by the Arkansas Tow and Recovery board... for such violations in the future!!! WARNING!!! Don't get caught...and say that it was just an oversight!!! $$$$$$$ It's YOUR MONEY!!!!
Note: December 27, 2007 ... Notice!!! The NEW!!! 2008 PTRAA meeting calender... has been posted on our Meeting Schedule link. Please copy this information and keep it handy for your reference... and to give the dates to everyone you invite to our 2008 PTRAA meetings.
Note: December 13, 2007 ... Due to the many complaints from all over Arkansas, about illegal TOWERS working in Arkansas... New Arkansas Towing laws... to fight illegal Towing and improper registered vehicles WILL GO INTO EFFECT... 1 JANUARY 2008 If you have any questions on these NEW LAWS!!!, or about what insurance coverage is required, about the New!!! tags that will be required, or the signage for your doors for both CONSENT and NON CONSENT... TOWING ? RECOVERY ? RE-PO or HAULING... please!!! call the Arkansas Towing and Recovery Board Director, Cindy Lauen, 501-278- 5225 during normal business hours. The Arkansas State Police and other law enforcement personnel will be enforcing these new laws ... and will be issuing citations for non compliance!!! It's the LAW!!! If YOU TOW!!! Get Legal NOW!!!
Note: December 13, 2007 ... NOTICE!!! To all TOWERS in Arkansas. State law requires that you to send registered letters to the Owner and the last registered lien holder of any vehicle that you impound, ...within ( 8 ) working days of each vehicle, being on your impound lot. THIS IS MANDATORY... and ALL TOWERS MUST COMPLY!!! if you don't comply... within that time frame, with this state law... TOWERS could get into serious problems about the charges levied on or for that vehicle later. TOWERS MUST COMPLY...NO EXCEPTIONS!!! The law... is the law... and you could be fined... suspended or worse!!! DO YOUR PAPERWORK... FIRST!!! Then keep good, secured records on each vehicle...and be prepared to defend yourself with the proper paperwork, at all times!!! This is Arkansas State Law!!! NOT a JOKE!!! WARNING!!! IT CAN COST YOU!!! If you have any questions on this matter, call The Arkansas Towing and Recovery Board Director, Cindy Lauen, 501-278-5225 If you do not have the proper paperwork and your brought before the board,...you will be fined!!! It's that simple. Please comply!!! if you don't want problems.
Note: November 5, 2007 ... Our final... 2007 PTRAA Membership Meeting, will be held " Tuesday " November 13, 2007 , 7PM, at the Wyndham Hotel, North Little Rock, Arkansas. All Vice Presidents and PTRAA Directors should start calling ALL Members... and non - member Towers in their areas NOW!!!, to come and join with the PTRAA, in celebrating all that we have accomplished in 2007. We are working hard for our members and growing as the Towing Industry's " VOICE " and LEADERS in Arkansas and also recognized as Professional Towers, around the Towing Industry in America... With hard work from our MEMBERS and PTRAA Leadership, we together are making history in ARKANSAS. Never before has Arkansas TOWERS had a more direct say in what happens in their INDUSTRY and Towing Businesses, than we all share today!!! Because of MEMBERSHIP!!!
Note: October 25, 2007...The PTRAA Training Class for November 3, 2007... to be held at the Wyndham Hotel, North Little Rock... has been canceled. Please call Tad Booker for more information...870-317-6010
Note: October 22, 2007... Cell phone contract problems and warranty contract problems... Alltel cellular users who are having problems... need to contact DON JACKSON, ASAP!!! WITH YOUR COMPLAINTS. Recently we have found problems in phone warranty understandings and facts. If you have purchased a insurance warranty contract...and you believe that your phone is covered!!! may be not!!! was it explained to you that you have a one year FREE!!! phone warranty, and by purchasing the insurance, after one year of paying the insurance and afterward still paying the insurance... you will need to pay a $95.00 deductible, prior to having your phone repaired or replaced. This is usually omitted... and supposedly... is in the fine print... I am meeting with Alltel executives to work on this problem. please E-mail me your thoughts and or complaints. PS... SPRINT Nextel is meeting with the PTRAA , November 1, 2007 at 10:30 AM about a great partnership with the Arkansas Towing Industry. They are wanting to join the PTRAA as associate members and work with all Arkansas Towers and give discount cellular plans at great savings, through the partnership.
Note: October 9, 2007 ... PTRAA Training News...The Ptraa has scheduled a... Professional Towing... Intermediate Training Class, for November 3, 2007 at the Wyndham Hotel, North Little Rock, Arkansas. Registration begins at 7 AM to 7:45 sharp!!! Go to the... Training / Schedule... PTRAA link, for more information!!! Don't miss this very important PTRAA TRAINING Class. Everyone needs this class, if you TOW in Arkansas.
Note: October 4, 2007 ... Talked to " GARY " the Investigator for the Arkansas Towing and Recovery Board. He requested for everyone to identify and report all illegal TOWERS Statewide. Do this by getting digital photos when possible, tag number, type of vehicle, color, make when possible, rollback, wrecker, trailer etc. and go onto the Arkansas Towing and Recovery Board web site link...and fill out a simple complaint form. You can also contact ' GARY " personally and e-mail him photos and other information to help prosecute these illegal TOWERS. He needs and wants your HELP!!! Gary is now working with law enforcement statewide in helping to apprehend these illegal towers. The Fayetteville, Springdale, Bentonville, Rogers and Fort Smith areas, are a hot bed of problems that HE is working on. SO HELP HIM!!!