A Chicago-based towing company is being accused of price-gouging and bad faith for refusing to release freight taken from trailers that had become stuck under low bridges or otherwise involved in traffic accidents.
Officials from two different trucking companies say they were forced to pay as much as $12,000 — nearly twice the going rate — to recover freight after several recent incidents in the Windy City.
The company is Lang’s Towing, and the owner, Charles Lang, claims that the charges are normal for the kind of service his firm provides, according to trucking executives who have dealt with him.
The publisher of a national towing directory, however, says the fees are exorbitant and he intends to bar Lang’s Towing from future editions because of what he considers to be unethical business practices.
For the full story, see the Oct. 16 print edition of Transport Topics. .
