Those cars are coming from either Insurance Auto Auction, or Co-Part. I use to work at IAA and saw all kinds of crazy tow setups.
Most of the time it was Nigerian or Latino buyers trying to move cars as cheap as possible. However, we had a couple of Asian buyers buy 2 Jeep Cherokee's from us. When I took them out front on my forklift, they had a car dolly out and a friend there to drive their Corolla or Civic behind them (was a small car they drove up in). They hooked the tow dolly to one of the "driveable" Jeeps with a hitch and asked if I would load the other Jeep on the tow dolly with the drive wheels on the dolly. I told them they needed to drop the drive shaft and tow it by the steer wheels as the Jeep they were towing was ****ed up bad and steer wheels had bent tie rods and control arms and it wasn't going to tow that way.
After suggesting it a couple of times, I said, fine, not responsible for you vehicles when this doesn't work. Our on site officer didn't seem to care either. I loaded it how they wanted and went on with my business. I watched as I would drive by taking more cars out and they never ran a seat belt or ratchet strap around the steering wheel, nothing, just strapped the back wheels down and drove off.
I went out on my lunch break, and saw that tow rig on the side of the road a few miles down 41 south. The Jeep being towed was dragging the tows dolly towards the shoulder of the road and they were tinkering with it, I assume trying to get it to tow straight with bent up suspension. When I came back, they were gone. Later that day, they were on the news flipped upside down on I75S. The back Jeep probably started swaying really bad and inevitably flipping then over a few time into the median.
That day, I learned to just say "no" when I knew they were wanting to do something stupid. I would just tell them I wasn't allowed to load like that. Wasn't 100% true, but I wasn't going to contribute to an accident because people or so cheap they would rather risk their and other lives to save $150-$200 in tow fees.
Most of the time it was Nigerian or Latino buyers trying to move cars as cheap as possible. However, we had a couple of Asian buyers buy 2 Jeep Cherokee's from us. When I took them out front on my forklift, they had a car dolly out and a friend there to drive their Corolla or Civic behind them (was a small car they drove up in). They hooked the tow dolly to one of the "driveable" Jeeps with a hitch and asked if I would load the other Jeep on the tow dolly with the drive wheels on the dolly. I told them they needed to drop the drive shaft and tow it by the steer wheels as the Jeep they were towing was ****ed up bad and steer wheels had bent tie rods and control arms and it wasn't going to tow that way.
After suggesting it a couple of times, I said, fine, not responsible for you vehicles when this doesn't work. Our on site officer didn't seem to care either. I loaded it how they wanted and went on with my business. I watched as I would drive by taking more cars out and they never ran a seat belt or ratchet strap around the steering wheel, nothing, just strapped the back wheels down and drove off.
I went out on my lunch break, and saw that tow rig on the side of the road a few miles down 41 south. The Jeep being towed was dragging the tows dolly towards the shoulder of the road and they were tinkering with it, I assume trying to get it to tow straight with bent up suspension. When I came back, they were gone. Later that day, they were on the news flipped upside down on I75S. The back Jeep probably started swaying really bad and inevitably flipping then over a few time into the median.
That day, I learned to just say "no" when I knew they were wanting to do something stupid. I would just tell them I wasn't allowed to load like that. Wasn't 100% true, but I wasn't going to contribute to an accident because people or so cheap they would rather risk their and other lives to save $150-$200 in tow fees.
