The problem is the way all of these plans work is they call around to all the area towing / road side service companies and say we have a customer at X location needing a tire to be changed will you do it for X dollars. If the service company says no, they move to the next phone number on the list for the area, if none of the companies say yes, they bump the offer up a little and start making the rounds of phone calls again. They also have a preferred rating system that encourages the service companies to always say yes, otherwise they get bumped down on the call order next time around. I know a guy that owns a tow truck business, and over the years have sat around his office visiting while he fielded these sorts of calls. Often the offer price will be extremely low, like $25 to jump start someones car that is located 10 miles away, a price so low it would not cover fuel and operating expense to get a tow truck to the location. Other times things line up to be that same $25 for someone that is just around the corner, or perhaps it is still that 10 miles away, but he might have a driver returning from a tow job passing right by.
