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Report: Massachusetts Motorists Vulnerable To Exorbitant Towing Charges

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published May 5, 2021 at 10:49 AM EDT

A study by a consumer watchdog concludes that Massachusetts motorists are vulnerable to predatory tow truck drivers.

The report from MassPIRG identifies how Massachusetts should improve its laws to better protect people against exorbitant towing charges.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Deirdre Cummings, legislative director for MassPIRG.

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Paul Tuthill

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.

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