Roskopf's Service and Towing

11/20/2025

11/18/2025

TRAA reps, Jeff and Bruce, representing the towing industry.

11/17/2025

“Safety Starts with You – Slow Down and Move Over!” Today starts the 10th annual Crash Responder Safety Week (CSRW) 2025!

The U.S. Department of Transportation joined transportation safety and emergency response organizations for a nationwide call to action to reach the milestone of one million responders trained to prevent the death and injury of emergency responders who are on the roadways at every phase of a crash scene. To date, more than 800,000 responders have been trained with the Traffic Incident Management training program, representing all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico: https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/tim/training/.

Under Secretary Sean Duffy’s leadership the USDOT is committed to putting safety first and empowering law enforcement and first responders. In the past 5 years, more than 300 first responders have lost their lives responding to crashes.

“The Trump Administration is committed to keeping our first responders, and travelers on our nation’s roadways safe,” said U.S. Transportation Deputy Secretary Steven Bradbury. “At the Department, we are focused on getting back to basics and advancing our top priority—transportation safety.”

“This week, the Trump Administration honors the brave men and women who have been injured or lost their lives while saving others on our roadways,” said Federal Highway Administrator Sean McMaster. “As we urge every driver to ‘Slow Down and Move Over,’ we are calling on states to help train one million crash responders so they are prepared to act safely.”

Read the press release: https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/trumps-transportation-department-champions-frontline-responder-safety

11/17/2025

11/16/2025

Santa Claus is coming to town ...
The Sunday of Thanksgiving Weekend, 4:30 pm start.

10/19/2025

The Wisconsin Towing Association Board of Directors reminds motorists to Slow Down and Move Over for all emergency responders.

10/18/2025

DYK? State law requires drivers to move over or slow down for any emergency vehicles stopped on the side of a road with their lights flashing – not just police vehicles.

Whether it’s law enforcement, EMS, towing, utilities and others, please help keep our first responders safe!

09/10/2025

17 more abandoned vehicles. 17 times we responded to an emergency towing request and have not been paid.

💥How Unpaid Towing Invoices Drive Up Rates

Running a towing company means balancing two very different sides of the business: providing emergency service 24/7 and keeping the office running during normal business hours. But there’s another challenge most customers never see — unpaid towing invoices.

💥The Hidden Cost of Unpaid Bills💥

When a towing company provides service, we’ve already put money into fuel, equipment, insurance, payroll, and maintenance. Every unpaid invoice leaves a gap that has to be filled. Unlike large corporations, small and mid-sized towing companies can’t simply absorb those losses.

When insurance companies, businesses, or individuals delay or refuse payment, the cost of operating doesn’t stop. Unfortunately, that means unpaid invoices today turn into higher towing rates tomorrow.

We often hear responses like, you’re getting to salvage the vehicles and making money there.
These vehicles are junk, worth $300.00 the majority of the time.
Now consider paperwork, photographs, certified letters, 30,60,90 days or even more of taking up valuable space in our storage facilities.
Often the clean up and fluid containment materials we use exceed what we receive in scrap value.

Unpaid invoices are becoming a very serious concern within our industry. Unfortunately there are no consequences as most people do not receive a citation for abandonment.

Can we take them to small claims court, yes we can.
Additional time, court fees, attorney fees and negativity from the customers friends and family as now we have made them a victim.
If we receive a judgement in our favor, it’s nearly impossible to collect on most of those judgments.

We are not complaining, we’re just attempting to shed some light on the everyday challenges that towing companies encounter.