Runway towing drivers#

It also alleges the company relies on shady practices to drive up its profits, including instructing tow operators to bring vehicles they pick up to the company’s office in Ozone Park - no matter where they break down. The suit claims Runway has earned more than $200 million since 2010 off its NYPD contract to provide roadside assistance and towing services on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Kosciusko Bridge the Cross Island Parkway in Queens sections of the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn and Queens Brooklyn’s Gowanus Expressway and Prospect Expressway and the Staten Island Expressway, West Shore Expressway, Korean War Veterans Parkway and Dr. Lawyer Gary Rosen, who represents Runway customers, said city agencies conspired to allow the towing company to operate. The two city agencies “conspired … to allow Runway to operate … even though at least six years ago motorists were telling them that Runway is overcharging consumers,” said lawyer Gary Rosen, who represents Runway customers and ex-staffers in the lawsuit.

The suit also accuses the NYPD of repeatedly extending Runway’s contract since 2013 without competitive bidding and, in the process, ignoring many complaints the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection was getting about the company’s alleged lawbreaking, which included underpaying workers and illegally compensating them with cash off the books. It alleges city officials let the company run an illegal “racketeering enterprise” at the expense of unsuspecting motorists. The class-action suit, filed Saturday in Manhattan Supreme Court, seeks more than $58 million in damages for the duped motorists from the NYPD, the city Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and Runway Towing Corp.

Runway towing drivers#

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