Recovery business

WalterMitty

Do people think its a good time to start a recovery truck business with people not buying new cars as much and older cars breaking down more?

Unless you can get hooked up with an insurance company or the AA to become an agent for them. You'd need to be remotely handy with cars too to fix the basics on the spot. A friends Dad had a recovery business years back, the local Garda station used to ring him after crashes and whatnot, only for that he would have given it up a lot sooner.

I'd say no really to be honest.

bazz26

My own car was incidently dropped off at the garage last week by a recovery truck under my breakdown assistance. I was chatting to the driver on the way to the garage and asking him what was business like. He said it has it's good days and bad days, there are alot at it and the trucks, winch equipement, etc are not cheap to lease/buy. You would definately need to be hooked up with an insurance company though to have any chance of making a living and I would also assume you would need to have some sort of basic mechanic training too.

Our man in Havana

Well the local outfit makes absolutely no effort to repair at the side of the road. So any call to them means the car is simply scooped up and dropped at their garage.