The Chattanooga Beer and Wrecker Board on Thursday voted to suspend American Recovery from being on the city’s call rotation for 30 days for reportedly overcharging more than 20 people who parked overnight for two nights in the Walmart parking lot in Brainerd.
The volunteer board cited American Recovery for two wrecker violations. The first happened in November and involved not reporting a nonconsensual towing of a car from the Walmart parking lot within one hour, as required by city code.
According to the code, the board can either dismiss the citation or vote to suspend the business from being on the city’s call rotation to pick up vehicles for 30 days. Several board members said that was too harsh and voted to dismiss the case.
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The second violation involved about 25 cars being towed from the same parking lot March 26. A large group of people had parked there for a two-night bus trip to Mississippi and returned the evening of March 27 to find their cars were gone.