About Us
This Association was started in 1986 when a group of towers saw the need for a group of people who cared about and would address the needs, wants, and issues of towers in Pennsylvania.
Benefits of Joining
- An Association can help supply pertinent information concerning your industry or business.
- Can initiate member discounts from supply vendors
- Can be the vehicle to carry your voice or opinions to Legislators and/or State Agencies concerning the Towing Industry.
- Can be a source of business revenue through contacts with other members
- An Association with a large enough member base can be instrumental in securing better insurance programs for members
- Gives members the opportunity to draw information and experience from a varied cross section of people in the same industry.
- Give the opportunity to develop a camaraderie and friendships with new people.
- Gives competitors a reason to talk to one another instead of saluting!
- Gives members access to discount pricing for training seminars and courses.
List of Precepts
This Association is formed, fostered, and nurtured:
- To serve the public interest
- To provide the public with adequate and professional services, operating with safety and dispatch using quality equipment and efficient devices and using well-trained and courteous personnel:
- To make possible the maximum in cooperation with governmental and law enforcement agencies;
- To promote economic stability and profitability for its members through the dissemination of information on cost saving practices, and economy through group activities:
- To foster and promote friendly, cooperative relationships among all professional towing operators and their principals;
- To maintain relationships between the members, on the one hand, and governmental agencies, affiliated business, and the public, on the other hand, to the end that the latter can better understand the problems and contributions made by members;
- To encourage enlightened legislation and rules an regulations of regulatory bodies, which will enable the industry, represented by the members to accomplish more completely these PRECEPTS.
Code of Ethics
- Members shall encourage the American Free Enterprise System
- Each member owes a duty of integrity, honor, fair dealing, and courtesy to the general public in the operation of all facets of its business.
- Cleanliness and neatness of equipment and drivers are important features of proper public contact.
- Members shall comply with all city, county, state and federal laws, and it shall be the duty of the Association to keep members informed on these laws and their application, as well as the rules and regulations promulgated by all the regulatory bodies designed to administer and enforce such laws.
- No member shall do anything and make any utterance which conceivably might injure the reputation of any member or non-member competitor.
- Members shall employ truth and accuracy in advertising and soliciting, and shall honor any commitments made in the course of business.
- Members shall bring to the attention of the central office any information believed to be a violation of any law or regulation and aid in the enforcement of all laws and regulations.
- Members shall strive to improve their internal business methods to strengthen their economic well being to the end of being better able to service the public and conform to these by-laws.