Geri Roskopf’s Blog

Promise Yourself

Like many towing companies, we offer the use of a truck for groups participating in holiday parades.  This past Independence Day parade was no exception. The exception came as the parade was going to begin. The guys in the shop worked all week to get the trailer ready for the band that was going to…

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Tow Show or No Tow Show

The Wisconsin Towing Association recently held their annual tow show and celebrated 55 years as an association. For me and my family, that weekend was always considered our vacation. If you have a small towing company, I’m sure you know what it’s like to take time off and away from the business. Thankfully, for our…

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Hiring in 2022

A headline in a local business magazine, “Hiring in 2022, the search for talent isn’t getting any easier,” seems to be the talk of most businesses these days. For example, I’ve been trying to get together with a fellow tow lady, but she had to step in to dispatch because they are short-staffed in that…

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Words We Speak

I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” As kids, mom used to tell us that many times. I’m not sure why, but it seems there is more impatience, rudeness and being more demanding from others in the world today. While I would love…

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A Touch of Class

I just read who will be inducted into the Towing & Recovery Hall of Fame Class of 2022. Noted was the fact the inductees are from the United States, Australia, France and Japan, thus bringing in the international founding of the towing museum. The requirements for being nominated to the Hall of Fame are: 20…

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Happy Mother’s Day

I was in a Hallmark store the other day, and everything was geared toward Mother’s Day. I burst out in tears, because both my mother and mother-in-law have passed. There was a clerk there who saw my tears and asked if she could help. I explained to her how it hit me that I don’t…

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It’s Okay to Cry

I think when the subject of mental health comes up, most people really don’t know how to respond to it. Ask a tow operator how to do a recovery, and he can give you a detailed lesson. Ask a tow operator to figure out what might be going on with someone having a mental health…

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Be a Good Egg

I was decorating Easter eggs with my granddaughter and a few egg idioms came to mind. While eggs and towing don’t seem to be related, I’m sure you’ve heard, or even used, some of the following sayings that offer some good advice: Good egg. The opposite of a bad egg, being a good egg describes…

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What Does It Take?

As a tow truck operator, dispatcher or manager, do you sometimes consider yourself a superhero? What does it really take to be a superhero? I found some quotes from and about some superheroes that I think could relate to the everyday, hard work done by the members of the towing industry: “It’s not the armor…

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What’s In Your Success Toolbox?

The theme for the 2009 Wisconsin Towing Association’s tow show was “Building on Our Future.” At that time, I put in a small cardboard box that looked like a toolbox, a “Tools for Success Kit.” Here’s a list of what was in the toolbox: Pennies — Because teamwork makes good “sense” Band Aid — Because…

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