Reduce Your Standby Time: Keep Making Money Even Between Towing Jobs

Every minute your heavy duty tow trucks aren’t making you money, they’re costing you.

Truck and insurance costs keep stacking up even while you’re waiting for your next job to come in—not to mention all your other fixed costs.

Which is why it’s critical to keep that standby time to a minimum. For a lot of towing companies it can mean the difference between making a profit versus losing money.

That’s why many companies are adopting detachable heavy towing equipment to decrease their wasted standby time. Let’s take a look at how much your standby time is costing you, and how detachable equipment earns you more.

How Standby Time Loses You Money

A parked truck doesn’t look like it’s costing you much.

But if you add up all its insurance payments, loan payments, and the share of your company’s other fixed costs each truck needs to offset—you realize how precious each hour is.

If your trucks sit idle for too long, your company dips into the red.

This is especially true in the off-season. For a lot of towing companies that means summer, when their trucks sit idle much more than they do in the busy winter season. 

This can put enormous strain on the company’s finances year after year.

The Deceptively Simple, Detachable Solution

For about as long as heavy towing has been around, people have thought of the truck and the towing equipment as a single unit.

So when there’s no towing jobs available, the whole truck sits idle.

But Zacklift changes that.

With Zacklift detachable heavy towing equipment, you can unhook your underlift, boom, or full wrecker body from your truck in just 15 minutes. That way your truck is free to make money with other kinds of work.

So if your wrecker is sitting idle and you get a call for a lucrative lowbed job, you can just detach the wrecker, hook up your lowbed trailer, and put your truck to work rather than waiting for a recovery call that might not come.

In the off-season you’re free to stack up non-towing work but still take towing and recovery jobs when they come. So instead of sitting around costing you money all summer, your trucks earn a steady income.

Cut Down Standby Time and Boost Your Income with Detachable Heavy Duty Towing Equipment

The more your trucks are out working for you, the more profitable your company becomes.

Zacklift’s detachable heavy duty towing equipment allows each truck to do multiple types of work. So you cut down standby time by taking more of the jobs that are actually available—without taking on more loan and insurance payments for dedicated, specialized trucks.

If you’re ready to see how detachable equipment can boost your company’s bottom line, get in touch today and we’ll show you the best options for your business.