Nowadays, towing companies send a lot of e-mails and faxes. I have noticed that many of them contain automatically-inserted confidentiality disclaimers at the bottom of the communication that read something like this: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited.

For as long as you can remember, the city in which your towing company is located has used only one company – not yours – for all of its police-dispatched, nonconsensual tows. Your company is equally qualified to perform police towing work – you have the equipment, experience, insurance, etc. – so you ask the police chief to start using your company on a rotating basis with the current tow company. The chief says that he is satisfied with the service he is getting and denies your request.

It is not uncommon for tow companies to complain that a City, State, or Law Enforcement Agency is discriminating against them because the tow company is not a resident of the City, State, or Law Enforcement Agency’s jurisdiction. In fact, laws requiring a tow company to be a resident in order to perform law enforcement towing are common.

Most municipal bid contracts contain something like the following: “ABC City demonstrates a continued commitment to the success of minority and women owned (MBE, WBE) businesses by promoting contracting opportunities for vendors certified DBE/WBE.”