Flickr.com PhotoAccording to a recent article in The Charleston Gazette, click here, college students in Morgantown usually have three main areas of concern: parking, TOWING, and landlord issues.
Their student government is speaking up for them at the state legislature, trying to have influence on legislation...
These student leaders have proposed that tow truck drivers should be required to take some other form of payment besides cash and, oh gee, stop operating on "a policy of intimidation and fear."
I don't know. Sounds like asking for a lot.
The article cites the example of a female student who was (apparently) shaken down for $150 cash, and the driver wouldn't show her the towing company's rates. This sounds very similar to a story I documented in Minneapolis, click here.
Also, storage fees for the first 24 hours after an impound is "killing" students, according to Jason Parsons, student body president.
Notably, this is the first West Virginia story to hit my blog. These student leaders just put their state on the Towing Utopia map.
