Officials at the California Department of Insurance are warning Southland residents of a “vehicle hostage” scam involving tow truck companies targeting motorists involved in traffic accidents.

What should be a simple recovery or tow process has become an industry crisis. With predatory towing companies exploiting trucking fleets through excessive fees, cargo ransoms, and impound scams.

The Louisiana Dept. of Transportation and Development is preparing to implement emergency repairs on a highway overpass hit by a truck in December. It is the second time in about two years that ...

Japanese emergency services struggled for hours on Tuesday to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a massive sinkhole near Tokyo. Authorities in Yashio City, Saitama, received calls ...

NEW ORLEANS — Emergency crews responded to a water rescue Tuesday afternoon after a box truck plunged off the ... Responding agencies included the Louisiana State Police, New Orleans Police ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana ... to be a “squatted truck,” drawing significant attention on social media. One of the Facebook post’s featuring a truck loaded onto a tow truck surrounded ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Multnomah County prosecutors shared riveting video on Tuesday showing a tow truck theft from July 2023. The video shows the suspect hopping in the front seat, and the tow truck ...

New Orleans, Louisiana received snow for the first time in 15 years. While the area isn’t used to clearing snow, it’s familiar with cleaning up messes. The city used a flusher truck to remove snow ...

busted open several compartments on the truck, and put "essential fire equipment" in their Jeep before driving off. Officials did not say what specific equipment was stolen. SUGGESTED: LA fires ...

Weeks after losing their infant daughter due to complications with her birth, Dustin and Jenni Nehl jumped in a decommissioned fire truck emblazoned with the name of a bogus fire department ...

NBC 26/Youtube; City of Neenah, Wisconsin Police Department Facebook A Wisconsin tow truck driver is being hailed a hero after he braved sub-zero temperatures to rescue a husband and wife ...

Four children and one adult were injured when a tow truck crashed into the back of a school bus Thursday morning. On Jan. 16 at 7:25 a.m., a school bus had stopped to pick up child when a tow truck ...