towing to your home if less than 100 miles

IAMICHABOD wrote:

toedtoes wrote:


Similar to the AAA 100 mile towing - "sure, we'll tow you up to 100 miles"... but that mileage starts at the tow truck's home base to your disablement location to your destination and back to the truck's home base" and "if the tow truck's fee exceeds the base fee (for a small tow truck), you will have to pay the difference".

I surely don't see that in my AAA coverage, can you please tell me which page and paragraph you found it.

Reason being is that I had a tow of 106 miles to my home and all I payed for was the 6 Miles over and nothing more. The driver said at least the traffic back to the High Desert would not be bad that time of night.

Oops, I wrote that incorrectly.

If you require a larger than standard tow truck (e.g., a medium duty wrecker) and the rate for that truck is more than the standard tow truck, then AAA will only reimburse you for a max of $300 for the up to 100 miles. If actual costs exceed that amount, then the tow truck company will charge you for the difference. That difference is computed as the hours in service multiplied by the hourly rate and minus the AAA allowance. The hourly rate can be computed from the truck's home base to your disablement location to your destination and back to the truck's home base.

I suspect that the "range of operation" has a large bearing on how the hours are charged. In my case, the tow truck was gone from its range almost as soon as it left my disablement location. That location is right at the line of one region to the next - the truck came from region A, my disablement was on the edge of region A, and my destination was well into region B.