Connecticut Repairers and Tow Companies Take the Fight to Progressive
Don’t look now, but there is a convoy of tow trucks in Connecticut’s capitol.
Frustrated with the fact that they have to pay annual licensing fees, comply with regulations of the Department of Motor Vehicles, maintain expensive insurance policies, and pay high rates of workers’ compensation to operate their businesses, while employees of Progressive’s Concierge facility in the Hartford area admittedly disassemble customers’ vehicles without a repair license, members of Connecticut’s repair and towing industries are taking their fight to Progressive’s doorstep.
And their message is clear. Stop letting Progressive compete without making it comply with the repair licensing laws.
Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, is on board with the repairers and tow companies. Literally. Blumenthal is scheduled to give a press conference from one of the tow trucks. After the press conference, the convoy is headed to Progressive’s Concierge facility in Newington, Connecticut — which Progressive’s website identifies as its Hartford Concierge facility.
Unable to face the rumble, Progressive is reportedly shutting down that facility for the day.
Awesome, truly.
We’re going to need video.
I hope the announced site was a ruse and they are really going to another Concierge center.
Although we will need some vid of the abandoned center with and audio track… of crickets.
Bahahahaha.
Comment by Wade Ebert — March 28, 2007 @ 1:05 pm