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Sneaky little bastards aren't they

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It never fails , open your email and you find spam. Stupid ads that you can but then are not always spam, or some that are generated through harvesting your name or companies name, that you think might be from one of your people, yet contain drive by malware or worse. Case-n-Point , my hotmail account gets this the worst. Once by some idiotic teen somewhere in Africa or someplace, got a FaceBook account in my screen name yet is not me. Not unless I grew tits and a twat. Yet I never got a confirmation notice , yet a notice that , that account has activity yet its not my activity. Ever try to call FaceBook on the phone and say you messed up? Google has problems when changing passwords. If you change passwords, everything gets wiped out, so I purtty much leave that one alone. MSN's hotmail is a bit more forgiving but not by much, even then there is not much , short of getting an attorney involved no phone in help desk. While the Internet is a great place to generate business from, and

Sueing to make a living

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In today's landscape its all too easy for those not in love with us as towing pros to find a way to get rich suing us. It only takes one mishap to grab your ass and it can mean loosing the whole operation. I will not sit here and tell you all things are preventable. There are times something you do can really mess up. Even with extreme caution and constant inspections, tow trucks are mechanical, things can break, likewize some idiot can cause you to turn or exceed the limits of your equipment. So yes things can go bad. But if a customer's ride slydes, if your hit, or you cause a real problem , just to get back home where its warm, the damage from legal issues can wipe you out. Even if you win the initial complaint, the costs of litigation can really take a serious byte out of profits. Or get you taken off of a important rotation list. Granted private and commercial accounts can help offset that loss, but not totally cure them. Once labled it can take decades if ever to errode a