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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is Miami Valley View, a public service
program brought to you by iHeartMedia. Dayton I'm your host
Dave Alexander, and joining me in the studio this morning
is the co owner of Sandy's Towing and Recovery, Doug Toma.
How are you doing, man?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Doing great? Thanks?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah, Yeah, that's great. I'm glad to hear that you're here.
Thanks for coming in. We do tend to use you
guys a lot. And now what I appreciate is we
always get a lot of phone calls from you guys
when it comes to when we're doing traffic in the morning.
I know my partner, Christy Lee, appreciates it. So thanks
so much for doing that. So give us an idea.
Tell us a little bit about Sandy's and how you
(00:39):
came to be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Sandy's has been around a long time. I'm going to
say we started in business in nineteen fifty two. My
business partner bought the business as a third owner in
nineteen seventy two, and I went to work in seventy
six myself there washing trucks as a sophomore in high school.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Is that right? Yeah, So that's how you get started.
That Sandy's was walking, was washing the.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Trucks started on the bottom. There were six employees back
then and that was it. It is a great story.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I love successes like that. Were you here when somebody started, Well,
I was just you know, I was just a line
cook for you know, and the next thing you know,
their owning the joint. That is awesome that you started
washing trucks. That's really cool.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So I'm I'm about forty eight years into the business,
my wow, and been an owner of it or co
owner of it since two thousand and two. And we
currently have about one hundred and I'm gonna say about
one hundred and thirty employees probably.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So when back when you were washing trucks, how many
how many trucks were there?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
There were five trucks, four of them ran.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So we go from five trucks with four of them
running to now, how many do you have?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Over two hundred pieces on our insurance now that includes
bobcats and tow trucks and we run well over well,
we have twenty five big wrecords, we have two more
that will be here by the end of the summer,
and overall we have about one hundred and probably around
(02:21):
one hundred and seventy trucks total that are actually towing trucks.
WHOA between all our facilities, we have nine facilities.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Wow, so you guys are really helping out we have. Man,
that's that is amazing. So let's let's talk a little
bit about that, you know, like, what explain your services?
I know you do quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
We do. We tow for forty eight law enforcement agencies
across all is that about six county or six counties?
Forty eight forty eight of them we and those go
basically from clear down at Hamilton State Patrol, Okay, all
the way up to the State Patrol almost to Sydney, Ohio,
(03:04):
and almost all the jurisdictions in between. We to for
the majority of them.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
My heavens. So did you say one hundred and seventy employees.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
No, we have about one hundred and thirty one.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Hundred thirty employees, and I guess a lot of those
are are some of them are gotta be to dispatch.
I would assume, Oh, yeah, we have.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
We have a full dispatch crew an office. At any
one time, just in the dispatch office, we have ten
people working. Those are call takers, dispatchers.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And I'm guess they're always busy.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh yeah, at three o'clock in the morning, I still
have eleven people on the clock.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Wow, Holy cal That is so you guys are really
performing a major service for a massive part of the
state of Ohio.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Correct, we are big. Part of it is covering southwest Ohio. Now,
we'll go anywhere, and it's it's not uncommon to know
that two of my big trucks are somewhere, one in
Alabama and one in Illinois picking up a broke down
or reck semi sure coming back to a customer here
in Dayton. We'll take a good tractor down for them, Yeah,
(04:14):
and then bring the disabled unit back form so that
truck can go on in the same way we haul
cars to Florida for snowbirds and everything else. So nice,
we're spread spread pretty well, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And you had mentioned earlier about all, you know, the
vehicles you have on site and all of your locations,
and you'd mentioned bobcats and whatnot, which I'm assuming are
used probably to clean up some of those accidents.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Correct, we do when we get like the Interstate shut
as an example, in a semi wreck or even just
a bad car wreck. Yeah, and we have a lot
of debris on the highway. We've got bobcats. We have
our own rolloff containers. At three o'clock in the morning,
it's hard to call and get a roll off container
delivered to the interstate.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, you say roll off container, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
They're twenty and thirty yard containers like for debris.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Okay, and we.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Have trucks at all those like if if you're tearing
down a house and you're peeling a roof off or something,
they all go in those cans. Sure, we have fifteen
of those. Oh wow, can't we use them just for
our wrecks and things like that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Now when you when when let's say there is an
unfortunate accident where a semis and vibe and it's and
it has it's whatever it's carrying, do you have to
wait for a representative to come to clear all that offered?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Now you get the biggest the biggest liability or issue
we have is is the state of Ohio once their
roads cleared immediately. Yeah, and to get traffic rolling, especially
on the interstate systems. But they they want those they
like to see them open within ninety minutes to two hours.
(05:51):
The number on how much it costs, like in the
daytime to shut down I seventy five is staggering number
on trucks that can't move. It's well over a million
dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Jeez.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So they're there and pushed us to clean all this
stuff up. Yeah, we've got big front loaders we can
bring out. We have. We have our own reefer trailers.
If we've got unfortunately a load of food or something,
we have to reload or unload and reload into our trailers. Yeah,
we can reload that stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh, all that refrigerated trucks, yeah, we have.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We have all that capability, and uh, our our whole
goal is just to get the roads opened as fast
as we can, yeah, and get traffic rolling again for
the public.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Ninety minutes. That's uh, that's a big that's a dime wreck.
That's pretty tough because I'm gonna guess a lot of
times it's not easy. If I mean, if you've got
a semi that's closed down the highway, I mean it
can't be easy to get to the to the to the.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Site they built. Well, getting to the scene is one thing. Yeah,
and that's a big issue. We try to run the
shoulders up and you'd be surprised people that try to
block us, thinking we're trying to.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Get you're trying to what's this joker?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
All lights on and everything. But yeah, we we try
to get there and get the road opened up as
soon as we can. And unfortunately, in today's world, they
make these semi trailers lighter and lighter for more weight
to be put on them. Yeah, and when they roll
over they just blow apart. Oh, so product just goes everywhing.
Oh that's that's that's that's tough.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
That's tough. So but yeah, ninety minutes, man, that's But
I'll tell you what, Like I said, we've you know,
from doing what I do every morning when we hear
when we get that phone call like it's been shut down.
But you guys do a great job of getting of
getting things back up and running.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I appreciate a really great job.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
All right, So what are what are some of the
other services that you guys do? We do?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Like I said, we we transport vehicles all over the area,
both on flatbeds and on we have big tilt bed trailers.
We haul a lot of heavy machinery. Oh, we have
we have fifteen tractor trailers that do nothing but move
rental equipment for some of the big providers here local, Yeah,
(08:11):
and we do that on a daily basis for them.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
We do.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Like real heavy equipment in the way of like big
bulldozers and things like that. Sure, we have our own
bulldozers too that we once again, it's only used for
Rex or our own lots when we grade our lots
back out. But that's a big part of our business.
That that's a whole separate division of Sandy's. Is the
specialized transport side of it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Wow. And then so you're so Sandy's chewing and recovery
is just yeah, you know what I mean. That's not
exactly explaining everything that you guys do.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, we do. We do the work for three airports
pretty much specifically like CVG Cincinnati. If they lose a
jet off the off the runway, they leave it closed
till we get down there and do them.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Big big part of our business. We do their work.
We do Daton of course, and we do Wright Brothers
okay down one so heavens.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I mean, yeah, Sandy's towing and recovery, that's a massive
umbrella when you guys got a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
We're big in the community. I'm big about donating back
to that's awesome to the communities. We're big support for
the police departments and fire departments. We donate a lot
back into those. Gris are our commercial business. We run
well over seventy thousand toes a year.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
In that that's amazing. We toe for multiple motor clubs
of course, yeah, for passenger vehicles. The police towing is
a big part of our business. But our main business
is all our commercial custom We yeah, we do uh
between like the motor clubs and the ups and Fedexes
(10:08):
and all that. Those are all big customers. Wow, and
have been for years.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
You ever had any like really weird unusual requests.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Oh yeah, we've. We've we've done some crazy things and
and uh.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Like you get a call and you're like, I need
to talk to somebody first about this one of those
type of deals.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, we have, and we've we've we've moved unfortunately like
family pets, large family pet in the way of like
a horse or something.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
You know, I've even thought about that. Yeah, I mean,
if you don't have a trailer, I guess you know,
you got to call somebody. Who do you call? What
you call Sandy's.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, they've called. I mean, these are like a deceased animal.
Unfortunately we've moved them, like to a resting spot for him.
But those are kind of strange things you get into.
That's just a just to out at one, you know, right,
We do services to help, like some of the fire department, well,
all the fire departments know they can call us any
(11:08):
time they have somebody entrapped in a vehicle and they
need some lifted to help cut free driver. Or they
use our ear bags on ditch recoveries where they had
a ditch collapse on somebody. Wow, they use our ear
bags to support the walls to try to rescue the people.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Have you see, I had no idea that you guys
did any of this time. I hear Sandy's towing and recovery,
and I think of towing and recovery. I don't think
of moving to cease large animals and helping out with Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That's not a real common thing, but.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Still, I mean that's I never would have thought of that.
They pop into my brain, so I do. Here's what
I want to ask, where we're we only got a
couple of minutes left here. So what I want to
ask of you is to tell our listeners in the
community is how they can be helpful. You know, when
when there is a us an accident out there, what
(12:02):
can what can those people who are stuck in traffic?
What can we do? What can we do to help
you guys? Either get there quicker or what's what's the case?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Free up a lane to get us so we can
get our equipment through there. And all our trucks are
well lit.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And obviously they're not red and blue lights. They're not
they're not police lights in Ohio.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
We can't do that. Yeah, you cannot run blue lights here,
no question. But we we struggle a lot of times
getting to the scene because people either try to take
a short cut around everybody and then they're boxed in
and then then we can't get it through.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, so we.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Need the help of being able to let us merge
in and get to where we need to do. One
of the biggest things is you see our trucks on
the side of the road or same as police cruisers,
give us the ride away and get us and scoot over,
either scoot over whichever direction we have to go. It's
just becoming too common anymore of our employees, well not
(13:01):
so much our employees, thank god, but the towing industry
of drivers being struck numbers phenomenal. Why I can't believe
how many gets struck a year.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah yeah, if that that's you know, you cannot stress,
especially during construction season. And whenever you see a tow
truck off to the side helping it, it could be
just a private somebody or anybody is to get over,
scoot over. There's you know, they need as much room
as they can get. And and if you're zipping by
at sixty five seventy miles an hour, I mean, that's
(13:33):
super super dangerous. You know, you don't want it to
be you that's sitting out there, you know, changing a tire.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
So you know, I've had numerous close calls myself in
all the years I've done this, really standing right at
the controls when somebody slammed into the back of the truck.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah yeah. So if somebody wanted to come and let's say,
be a part of Sandy's do you guys like do
training and all that kind of stuff we do.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
We almost we almost would rather have somebody with no
training really come in green absolutely, because we'd like to
train in the way we want things done. Ah smart,
and we have a good training program. Our people are
treated very well. They get really good benefits and pay
and yeah, and we try to keep them in nice equipment.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Okay, So let's say there is somebody out there who
is looking to be a part of Sandy's. What do
they do to go to your website?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
They know we have It's Sandystowing dot Com. You go
right on there. There's an app right on there to
fill out an application and it comes right through to management.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Great. So if you're looking for a great job, they're
going to train you, great benefits. So join Sandy's. They're
awful busy. Yeah, awfully busy, Doug, I had no idea
of eighty five percent of the stuff that you do.
Appreciate everything that you can do to helping out the
police departments, the fire to apartments, us private people that
(15:01):
are stuck at on the roadway somewhere and everything else.
So thanks for joining us this morning, and appreciate you guys.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
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And now back to Miami Valleyview.
Good morning. This is Miami Valley View, a public service
program brought to you by iHeartMedia. Dayton I'm your host
Dave Alexander, and joining me in the studio this morning
is the co owner of Sandy's Towing and Recovery, Doug Toma.
How are you doing, man?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Doing great? Thanks?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah, Yeah, that's great. I'm glad to hear that you're here.
Thanks for coming in. We do tend to use you
guys a lot. And now what I appreciate is we
always get a lot of phone calls from you guys
when it comes to when we're doing traffic in the morning.
I know my partner, Christy Lee, appreciates it. So thanks
so much for doing that. So give us an idea.
Tell us a little bit about Sandy's and how you
(00:39):
came to be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Sandy's has been around a long time. I'm going to
say we started in business in nineteen fifty two. My
business partner bought the business as a third owner in
nineteen seventy two, and I went to work in seventy
six myself there washing trucks as a sophomore in high school.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Is that right? Yeah, So that's how you get started.
That Sandy's was walking, was washing the.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Trucks started on the bottom. There were six employees back
then and that was it. It is a great story.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I love successes like that. Were you here when somebody started, Well,
I was just you know, I was just a line
cook for you know, and the next thing you know,
their owning the joint. That is awesome that you started
washing trucks. That's really cool.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So I'm I'm about forty eight years into the business,
my wow, and been an owner of it or co
owner of it since two thousand and two. And we
currently have about one hundred and I'm gonna say about
one hundred and thirty employees probably.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So when back when you were washing trucks, how many
how many trucks were there?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
There were five trucks, four of them ran.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So we go from five trucks with four of them
running to now, how many do you have?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Over two hundred pieces on our insurance now that includes
bobcats and tow trucks and we run well over well,
we have twenty five big wrecords, we have two more
that will be here by the end of the summer,
and overall we have about one hundred and probably around
(02:21):
one hundred and seventy trucks total that are actually towing trucks.
WHOA between all our facilities, we have nine facilities.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Wow, so you guys are really helping out we have. Man,
that's that is amazing. So let's let's talk a little
bit about that, you know, like, what explain your services?
I know you do quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
We do. We tow for forty eight law enforcement agencies
across all is that about six county or six counties?
Forty eight forty eight of them we and those go
basically from clear down at Hamilton State Patrol, Okay, all
the way up to the State Patrol almost to Sydney, Ohio,
(03:04):
and almost all the jurisdictions in between. We to for
the majority of them.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
My heavens. So did you say one hundred and seventy employees.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
No, we have about one hundred and thirty one.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Hundred thirty employees, and I guess a lot of those
are are some of them are gotta be to dispatch.
I would assume, Oh, yeah, we have.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
We have a full dispatch crew an office. At any
one time, just in the dispatch office, we have ten
people working. Those are call takers, dispatchers.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And I'm guess they're always busy.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh yeah, at three o'clock in the morning, I still
have eleven people on the clock.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Wow, Holy cal That is so you guys are really
performing a major service for a massive part of the
state of Ohio.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Correct, we are big. Part of it is covering southwest Ohio. Now,
we'll go anywhere, and it's it's not uncommon to know
that two of my big trucks are somewhere, one in
Alabama and one in Illinois picking up a broke down
or reck semi sure coming back to a customer here
in Dayton. We'll take a good tractor down for them, Yeah,
(04:14):
and then bring the disabled unit back form so that
truck can go on in the same way we haul
cars to Florida for snowbirds and everything else. So nice,
we're spread spread pretty well, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And you had mentioned earlier about all, you know, the
vehicles you have on site and all of your locations,
and you'd mentioned bobcats and whatnot, which I'm assuming are
used probably to clean up some of those accidents.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Correct, we do when we get like the Interstate shut
as an example, in a semi wreck or even just
a bad car wreck. Yeah, and we have a lot
of debris on the highway. We've got bobcats. We have
our own rolloff containers. At three o'clock in the morning,
it's hard to call and get a roll off container
delivered to the interstate.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, you say roll off container, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
They're twenty and thirty yard containers like for debris.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Okay, and we.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Have trucks at all those like if if you're tearing
down a house and you're peeling a roof off or something,
they all go in those cans. Sure, we have fifteen
of those. Oh wow, can't we use them just for
our wrecks and things like that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Now when you when when let's say there is an
unfortunate accident where a semis and vibe and it's and
it has it's whatever it's carrying, do you have to
wait for a representative to come to clear all that offered?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Now you get the biggest the biggest liability or issue
we have is is the state of Ohio once their
roads cleared immediately. Yeah, and to get traffic rolling, especially
on the interstate systems. But they they want those they
like to see them open within ninety minutes to two hours.
(05:51):
The number on how much it costs, like in the
daytime to shut down I seventy five is staggering number
on trucks that can't move. It's well over a million
dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Jeez.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So they're there and pushed us to clean all this
stuff up. Yeah, we've got big front loaders we can
bring out. We have. We have our own reefer trailers.
If we've got unfortunately a load of food or something,
we have to reload or unload and reload into our trailers. Yeah,
we can reload that stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh, all that refrigerated trucks, yeah, we have.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We have all that capability, and uh, our our whole
goal is just to get the roads opened as fast
as we can, yeah, and get traffic rolling again for
the public.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Ninety minutes. That's uh, that's a big that's a dime wreck.
That's pretty tough because I'm gonna guess a lot of
times it's not easy. If I mean, if you've got
a semi that's closed down the highway, I mean it
can't be easy to get to the to the to the.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Site they built. Well, getting to the scene is one thing. Yeah,
and that's a big issue. We try to run the
shoulders up and you'd be surprised people that try to
block us, thinking we're trying to.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Get you're trying to what's this joker?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
All lights on and everything. But yeah, we we try
to get there and get the road opened up as
soon as we can. And unfortunately, in today's world, they
make these semi trailers lighter and lighter for more weight
to be put on them. Yeah, and when they roll
over they just blow apart. Oh, so product just goes everywhing.
Oh that's that's that's that's tough.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
That's tough. So but yeah, ninety minutes, man, that's But
I'll tell you what, Like I said, we've you know,
from doing what I do every morning when we hear
when we get that phone call like it's been shut down.
But you guys do a great job of getting of
getting things back up and running.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I appreciate a really great job.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
All right, So what are what are some of the
other services that you guys do? We do?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Like I said, we we transport vehicles all over the area,
both on flatbeds and on we have big tilt bed trailers.
We haul a lot of heavy machinery. Oh, we have
we have fifteen tractor trailers that do nothing but move
rental equipment for some of the big providers here local, Yeah,
(08:11):
and we do that on a daily basis for them.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
We do.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Like real heavy equipment in the way of like big
bulldozers and things like that. Sure, we have our own
bulldozers too that we once again, it's only used for
Rex or our own lots when we grade our lots
back out. But that's a big part of our business.
That that's a whole separate division of Sandy's. Is the
specialized transport side of it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Wow. And then so you're so Sandy's chewing and recovery
is just yeah, you know what I mean. That's not
exactly explaining everything that you guys do.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, we do. We do the work for three airports
pretty much specifically like CVG Cincinnati. If they lose a
jet off the off the runway, they leave it closed
till we get down there and do them.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Big big part of our business. We do their work.
We do Daton of course, and we do Wright Brothers
okay down one so heavens.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I mean, yeah, Sandy's towing and recovery, that's a massive
umbrella when you guys got a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
We're big in the community. I'm big about donating back
to that's awesome to the communities. We're big support for
the police departments and fire departments. We donate a lot
back into those. Gris are our commercial business. We run
well over seventy thousand toes a year.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
In that that's amazing. We toe for multiple motor clubs
of course, yeah, for passenger vehicles. The police towing is
a big part of our business. But our main business
is all our commercial custom We yeah, we do uh
between like the motor clubs and the ups and Fedexes
(10:08):
and all that. Those are all big customers. Wow, and
have been for years.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
You ever had any like really weird unusual requests.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Oh yeah, we've. We've we've done some crazy things and
and uh.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Like you get a call and you're like, I need
to talk to somebody first about this one of those
type of deals.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, we have, and we've we've we've moved unfortunately like
family pets, large family pet in the way of like
a horse or something.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
You know, I've even thought about that. Yeah, I mean,
if you don't have a trailer, I guess you know,
you got to call somebody. Who do you call? What
you call Sandy's.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, they've called. I mean, these are like a deceased animal.
Unfortunately we've moved them, like to a resting spot for him.
But those are kind of strange things you get into.
That's just a just to out at one, you know, right,
We do services to help, like some of the fire department, well,
all the fire departments know they can call us any
(11:08):
time they have somebody entrapped in a vehicle and they
need some lifted to help cut free driver. Or they
use our ear bags on ditch recoveries where they had
a ditch collapse on somebody. Wow, they use our ear
bags to support the walls to try to rescue the people.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Have you see, I had no idea that you guys
did any of this time. I hear Sandy's towing and recovery,
and I think of towing and recovery. I don't think
of moving to cease large animals and helping out with Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That's not a real common thing, but.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Still, I mean that's I never would have thought of that.
They pop into my brain, so I do. Here's what
I want to ask, where we're we only got a
couple of minutes left here. So what I want to
ask of you is to tell our listeners in the
community is how they can be helpful. You know, when
when there is a us an accident out there, what
(12:02):
can what can those people who are stuck in traffic?
What can we do? What can we do to help
you guys? Either get there quicker or what's what's the case?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Free up a lane to get us so we can
get our equipment through there. And all our trucks are
well lit.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And obviously they're not red and blue lights. They're not
they're not police lights in Ohio.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
We can't do that. Yeah, you cannot run blue lights here,
no question. But we we struggle a lot of times
getting to the scene because people either try to take
a short cut around everybody and then they're boxed in
and then then we can't get it through.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, so we.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Need the help of being able to let us merge
in and get to where we need to do. One
of the biggest things is you see our trucks on
the side of the road or same as police cruisers,
give us the ride away and get us and scoot over,
either scoot over whichever direction we have to go. It's
just becoming too common anymore of our employees, well not
(13:01):
so much our employees, thank god, but the towing industry
of drivers being struck numbers phenomenal. Why I can't believe
how many gets struck a year.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah yeah, if that that's you know, you cannot stress,
especially during construction season. And whenever you see a tow
truck off to the side helping it, it could be
just a private somebody or anybody is to get over,
scoot over. There's you know, they need as much room
as they can get. And and if you're zipping by
at sixty five seventy miles an hour, I mean, that's
(13:33):
super super dangerous. You know, you don't want it to
be you that's sitting out there, you know, changing a tire.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
So you know, I've had numerous close calls myself in
all the years I've done this, really standing right at
the controls when somebody slammed into the back of the truck.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah yeah. So if somebody wanted to come and let's say,
be a part of Sandy's do you guys like do
training and all that kind of stuff we do.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
We almost we almost would rather have somebody with no
training really come in green absolutely, because we'd like to
train in the way we want things done. Ah smart,
and we have a good training program. Our people are
treated very well. They get really good benefits and pay
and yeah, and we try to keep them in nice equipment.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Okay, So let's say there is somebody out there who
is looking to be a part of Sandy's. What do
they do to go to your website?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
They know we have It's Sandystowing dot Com. You go
right on there. There's an app right on there to
fill out an application and it comes right through to management.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Great. So if you're looking for a great job, they're
going to train you, great benefits. So join Sandy's. They're
awful busy. Yeah, awfully busy, Doug, I had no idea
of eighty five percent of the stuff that you do.
Appreciate everything that you can do to helping out the
police departments, the fire to apartments, us private people that
(15:01):
are stuck at on the roadway somewhere and everything else.
So thanks for joining us this morning, and appreciate you guys.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
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