The Chattanooga City Council tonight unanimously passed a new ordinance aimed at clearing away large-scale interstate wrecks within 90 minutes and opening the clean-up to more companies.
Under the new "Traffic Incident Management Service" ordinance, police officers who arrive on the scenes of accidents would be able to say whether an accident is severe enough to be a "life-safety situation." If that's the case, then only large trucks known as rotators can do the job.
The towing ordinance now states that only rotators are allowed to handle any types of large wrecks on the interstate, such as tractor-trailer turnovers. Under the new ordinance, smaller trucks could do the work if the officers at the scene say so.
Councilman Jack Benson, chairman of the council's Legal and Legislative Committee, said the council will have to tweak the ordinance as operators become aware of problems that arise.
For complete details, see tomorrow's Chattanooga Times Free Press.
http://timesfreepress.com...asses-new-towing-ordinan/
