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TOWING

Every breakdown gets an answer — and an ETA.

In the middle of the night a driver on the 401 has a dead car, a phone, and no idea which exit they passed. The call goes to whoever is awake, the location takes too long to get, the time is a guess, and the payment gets chased days later. We put the intake, the dispatch and the updates on a system that runs at night the way it runs at noon.

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The call gets answered first. The truck gets a real address.

A tow is bought at the worst moment of somebody's day — by phone, in a hurry, from a person who cannot say where they are. The company that answers first and gives a time gets the job. Then the run has to be logged, the drop confirmed and the money collected, by the same dispatcher who is already answering the next call. Every one of those handoffs is a place a run goes uncounted.

Answered first. Located once. Paid on the spot.

What it costs right now.

None of these are measurements of your operation — we have not audited it. They are the shape a tow desk takes when one person is answering, locating, dispatching, updating and collecting at the same time.

After midnight
is when the call comes in, and when the desk is asleep
Answered by whoever is awake
Minutes
is what it takes to get a location from a caller who cannot name the off-ramp
Time the truck is not yet moving
“How long?”
is the question that decides whether they wait for you or phone the next name
A guess, said with confidence
Unlogged
is the run that got done and was never matched to a job number
Real fuel, real hours, no invoice
Days later
is when the payment gets chased for a tow that was home long ago
Collected by phone, eventually

Four problems, and what replaces the owner's cell.

Every one of these runs through the owner's phone, and the owner is driving, asleep, or already on the other call.

  1. 01

    The middle-of-the-night call goes to the owner's cell. It is answered after a few rings, or it is not, and the caller has already dialled the next company on the list.

    The owner's cell

    A night desk staffed by a person costs more than the few calls it would take, so the phone follows the owner home — and the owner is human. The calls that are missed are the ones that pay best, because in the middle of the night there is no shopping around.

    See the station that closes it →
  2. 02

    “I'm on the 401, past the… there was a sign for something.” Minutes on the phone to get a location, on every call, while the truck sits.

    Question after question

    Callers describe landmarks and dispatchers need a point on a map, and the gap between the two is filled by questions. A few minutes never looks like a cost until it is a few minutes on every call, every week.

    See the station that closes it →
  3. 03

    The caller was given a time. When it passes they cancel, because they were never told the truck was held up, and the run that was already on the road earns nothing.

    A guess at the moment of the call

    The time is a guess made at the moment of the call, and it is never updated when the truck slows down — the dispatcher is on the next call and the driver is driving. The caller hears nothing, assumes the worst, and phones around.

    See the station that closes it →
  4. 04

    The run was done Monday. The sheet gets filled in Tuesday night, several calls later, and one run never makes it on. The payment for another gets chased on Thursday.

    The sheet at the end of the shift

    The paperwork happens at the end of the shift, after the next few calls, from memory. A run that never made it onto the sheet never gets billed, and a card that was not taken at the drop is a phone call the desk puts off.

    See the station that closes it →

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

Owner’s View

EXAMPLE FIGURES

Tuesday, 7:15 at the yard

YOUR YARD · 6 TRUCKS · UPDATED 7:15 · SHOWN WITH LIVE REFRESH, A SEPARATELY QUOTED UPGRADE

  • Calls since midnight

    31

    None missed· On track

    Twenty-two became runs.

  • Call to hook · average

    31 min

    ▼ 4 min· On track

    Three runs went past the first ETA after the 401 closure.

  • Vehicles in storage

    7

    2 notices due· Needs you

    Two owner notices fall due this week; a person sends them.

  • Payment links unpaid

    3

    Of 18 closed runs· Needs you

    One is a club run waiting on its purchase order.

Needs you today

  • Motor club & accounts

    2 purchase orders not matched · Sales & intake

    Needs you
  • ETA updates

    3 arrived past the first ETA · Customer service

    Watch
  • Hook-to-drop records

    1 missing its drop photo · Operations

    Fix
  • Impound & storage

    2 owner notices due · Operations

    Needs you
Towing: the owner’s week on one screen, with the four numbers that matter in this trade and what needs the owner today. The same example business as the Owner’s View demo.

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TOWING · OPERATIONS BLUEPRINT

Every process in the yard. Lit where a system carries it.

Each floor is a department and each station a process. The bright line is the path one job takes, and the light travelling it is that job. Select any station to see what starts it, what the system does, and what stays with a person.

run on the system
7run on the system
keep a person at the gate
2keep a person at the gate
built only for a pilot
1built only for a pilot
added by you
0added by you
01Work arrives02Somebody promises it03Somebody does it04The customer is told05The money is collectedMARKETINGSALES & INTAKECUSTOMER SERVICEOPERATIONSQUALITY & COMPLIANCEFINANCE24/7 call intakeLocation captureDispatchMotor club & accountsHook-to-drop recordImpound & storageCVOR & inspectionsETA updatesPayment at sceneAccounts & reviews
All 10 stations as a list

YOUR ADDITIONS · THE MAP IS YOURS TO EXTEND

Missing a process? Put it on the map.

Anything you run, or wish you ran, that is not drawn above. Name it, say where it sits, and it appears on the model with a blueprint sheet of its own. It travels with your pilot-call booking, so the call starts from your map, not ours. No price is attached; it is scoped on the call.

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Who decides

Kept in this browser. Sent only if you book a call, or ask for its plan.

Blueprint sheet · live preview

APPROVESCHEDULEDPOSTED · EACH CHANNEL

Marketing · Work arrives · A person approves each one

Social media automation

A poster is drafted from the week's work, a person approves it, and it is scheduled and posted to each channel on a calendar.

Starts when
A week's work is done, or a date on the calendar arrives.
The system
The poster and caption are drafted from it and queued.
A person
A person approves each one before it goes out.
On record
Every post, its channel, and when it went out.
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What this does not do

  • It does not drive the truck or pick which unit goes. Dispatch decisions stay with the person who knows the trucks and the drivers.
  • It does not replace your dispatch software or your accounting. It puts answering, locating, updating and collecting on top of what you already run.
  • It is not a rule engine for consent-to-tow, storage, or a police or motor-club contract. What has to be on paper before a hook is a question for your own advisor.
  • It will not bill a run that was never logged before it started running. It only counts from the day it is switched on.
  • A Diagnostic is measured against your numbers — calls a week, how many you catch, what a run is worth — and nothing else.

Written from the fundamentals and from a dispatch desk of our own — one that sends vehicles to booked trips, not to breakdowns, so the tracking and the driver call are familiar and the urgency is yours. The board above describes mechanisms, not measurements of your yard, and every figure the model shows is your own.

WHY US

We run this on our own vehicles.

We are not a consultancy that read about AI and wrote a deck. We build and operate the automation behind our own Ontario transport operation — built inside our own business first — and it runs every day whether or not anybody is watching it.

  • Vehicles tracked by geofence on the 401 corridor.
  • Arrival and departure times recorded without anyone typing them.
  • Delay alerts that hold their tongue until they are certain.
  • An AI voice agent that calls drivers before an early start.
  • A dispatch desk that runs on all of it.

That operation dispatches vehicles to booked trips; a tow desk dispatches them to calls that cannot wait. The tracking and the driver call are the same machinery. The urgency is yours.

What transfers is the machinery, and the expensive mistakes that come with it. The vehicle that clipped a geofence while driving past and marked a stop it never made. The stale data feed that hid whole trips. The alert that fired on one bad GPS reading. Every one of those is a way an automated system embarrasses you in front of a customer, and every one was found and fixed on our vehicles, not yours.

If this is your week, twenty minutes settles whether a Diagnostic would find anything worth fixing.

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Put your own numbers through it.

Calls a week, how many get answered, how many become a run, and what an average run is worth. The missed-call model works from those and nothing else — every figure it shows is yours.

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QUESTIONS WE GET ASKED

Who answers the 2 a.m. call if it stops going to my cell?

Every call is answered at once, whatever the hour: the situation captured, the caller told a truck is coming, and you woken only when a rule says so — a police request, a caller in danger, a job outside the area. The calls a tired owner misses are the ones that pay best, because nobody shops around in the middle of the night.

How does it get a location from a caller who cannot say where they are?

It captures the location once — a pin from the caller's phone, a plate, an exit number — and passes it to the driver as an address, so the truck is moving while the desk is still talking. The five minutes of landmark questions on every call is the cost this removes.

Can it stop callers cancelling when the truck runs late?

Yes. A time is texted the moment the truck is assigned and updated from where the truck actually is, so the caller waits for you instead of phoning around. The run that is already rolling gets paid for instead of arriving to a cancelled job.

Does it pick which truck goes, or replace my dispatch software?

Neither. Dispatch decisions stay with the person who knows the trucks and the drivers, and it does not replace dispatch software or accounting. It works on top of what you already run, not instead of it. It puts answering, locating, updating and collecting on top — every run logged as it happens and paid at the drop.

What is the first step, and what do you measure?

The first engagement is an Operations Diagnostic of the whole business, with one number taken from the part that costs most — the phone, usually — measured against your numbers: calls a week, how many you catch, what a run is worth. It is not a rule engine for consent-to-tow, storage, or a police or motor-club contract; what has to be on paper before a hook is a question for your own advisor.

Bring us one bad week.

Book a pilot call. Tell us where the week goes wrong, and we’ll tell you what an Operations Diagnostic would map and measure.

The first paid step has a clear scope and an end date, and the pilot after it is one workflow — not a platform, and not an open-ended retainer.

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