Kimball City Attorney and Marion County Attorney Billy GougerKIMBALL, Tenn. — When some nearby residents complained last month about problems at Monteagle Wrecker Service of Kimball along U.S. Highway 41, city officials agreed to examine the situation.
At the April meeting of the Kimball Board of Mayor and Aldermen, City Attorney Billy Gouger said he spoke with wrecker service owner Rodney Kilgore about complaints regarding an overwhelming smell coming from a wrecked tractor-trailer stored there, and fluids leaking out onto the ground from a damaged 18-wheeler.
Gouger said the trailer, which was removed just a few days later, was involved in a deadly crash.
“The highway patrol had a hold on that truck,” he said. “They would not allow it to be relocated until they had finished their investigation because it did involve a fatality.”
Zoning ordinances do allow a wrecker business to operate on the property.