COQUITLAM & PORT COQUITLAM TOWING & STORAGE CO. LTD.

225 Schoolhouse Daerah

Coquitlam, B.C. C 0 U ' C Port Coquitlam, -B.C.
2620 Bedford ; es
Port Coquitlam, B.C. 944 (7033
DEC 2 0 1976 Accounts

521-5356
December 16, 1976,

His Worship, the Mayor Jack Campbell,
And Members of City Council,

Port Coquitlam City Hall,

2272 McAllister,

Port Coquitlam, B.C.

Dear Sirs:

For the third time in the last seven years I have just discovered by reading
the Enterprise Newspaper that I have been cut off from towing for the R.C.M.P. in
Port Coquitlam. Towing, which our firm started after years of fighting to get a share
of when our firm was named Raliegh Royalite and Coquitlam Towing Company. We finally
received the towing business when the firm Commercial Garage Ltd. sold out and left
the city without any service at all. We were then approached by Port Coquitlam and
asked to take over the towing in Port Coquitlam because they had no other company with
the equipment to handle the job. We then, at that time, increased our fleet to handle
the job in the most efficient manner. Then in June, 1974, not notified, we stopped
‘receiving calls in Port Coquitlam. We called the R.C.M.P. and were told that they were
now using a towing company from Port Moody to handle the accidents in Port Coquitlam,
Apparently this did not work out too well, as this company could not supply enough
equipment. We were then requested to resume the towing in Port Coquitlam for the
R.C.M.P. Then in January of 1975 we were again informed, aft-r we stopped receiving
calls in Port Coquitlam, -that they were now using a towing company from Haney by the
name of Marty's Towing and our services were no longer required. We were again left
out in the cold with no reason being given or without a hearing. After Marty's Towing
failed to make it in business we started to receive calls in Port Coquitlam again.
Again in August of 1976 we were informed by a dispatcher at the R.C.M.P. station that
they had received a directive from S/Sgt. Borle of the Coquitlam R.C.M.P. that Ridge
Towing was to be called for all the towing work in Port Coquitlam. The only reason we
were given was that they did not want a monopiy and that Ridge Towing would be given
the towing. I then contacted Inspector Young and asked him the reasoning behind this
decision. Inspector Young told me over the phone that he had no knowledge of this .
move as he had just returned from lis vacation, but that he would check into the matter.
I then suggested to Inspector Young that we at least be given work in Port Coquitlam
on &@ monthly basis. He called me back and told me that after having discussed it with .
S/Sgt. Borle they would use Ridge Towing and Coquitlam Towing on a month-to-month basis.
This was the last I:had heard about the matter until I read in the Enterprise that I
had once again lost our company's business in Port Coquitlam.

“OUR BUSINESS iW we, 1S PICKING UP"