Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:50:54 -0500
Reply-To: JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
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From: JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Triple-A won't extricate you from just any old where
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Bottom line on towing is this: The further off the main roads you are,
the more it costs to get extracted - whether towed or out of a mudhole!
Triple A and others have limits as to how much they are willing to pay
Service providers. Beyond that the cost is your own.
Years ago, when working on Kodiak Island in Alaska there were some
favorite fishing spots that required going off road. The drive wasn't
bad except for three places on this one off-road trail. Any four wheel
drive could get there, and if weather had been good - some posi-traction
two-wheel drive vehicles could get there - but heaven help if it had
rained any at all - and when the water was up in the creeks was when the
salmon liked to run. So everyone would chance it. And so - the holes
with stuck vehicles became known as the $600 hole, the $900 hole and the
$1200 hole - the $1200 hole being closest to the best fishing creek.
Insurance would cover if a hundred yards off the main road (gravel) but
otherwise covered none of it. So it's all about how much you are willing
to pay.
John
On 4/18/2013 12:10 AM, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
> In a message dated 4/17/2013 10:50:08 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> ddbjorkman@VERIZON.NET writes:
>
> Reminds me of the time when I took my VW bug out on a forest road years
> ago. I came across a small stream with a couple of beams across it. I
> checked the distance between the beams against my wheel base and it seemed OK,
> and was until I got into the middle and the beams slid together leaving me
> stranded with all 4 wheels suspended above the stream.
> AAA did come to get me, but charged me for the chain saw work they had to
> do to get the tow truck close enough to the Bug to get the winch line to me.
>
>
>
>
> ill never forget the time i called AAA to bring home a freebie '75 westy
> that i acquired for parts. the driver actually dragged it out of a field,
> aired up the tires, and towed it home for me, even stopping to change the
> dryrotted tire that blew out on the freeway. this was prolly 15 or so
> years ago... i seriously doubt they do something like that now... :)
>
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