Origins are fascinating

I’m always interested in the beginnings of things. Like where a certain sir name or even name comes from. Who started it or said it first.

I reads in the Bible where in Genesis it talks of how Kahless said , lets see what Adam names these critters and things, and for all eternity that’s what they will be called. I always wish the authors or translators would have expanded on that, like why did a cow become or called a cow, why did Adam call it that? Or a horse, why did Adam call in a horse? Etc.

The same origin search comes with me and my focus on the feet mainly toes. Of all the parts of the human body, the feet are so important yet drastically ignored. However for the sake of my point here.

In the search of origins, many have asked me why I concentrate my promotional efforts on finding the most petite feet and dainty toes on women. The origin as it relates to me in towing goes back to the unification of Highway Hooker Towing when I bumped into all things Hazzard County. When I reached that point, and converted things of Highway Hooker Toewing into Dixie Towing to be more Hazzard County correct, I wanted to take that Hazzard County image into my TV and print ads.

Now if ya’ll don’t know this, Daisy Duke, aka Catherine Bach who played daisy, was censored by CBS, that if she was going to go with the shorts there had to be some sort of leg covering, although in Beverly HillBilly’s Elley May Clampet wore short-shorts but no nylons. But CBS demanded that for Daisy.

Beyond that seems as though no matter what I stumble into the human female or at least foot and toes enter in. When searching for the perfect call letters for the only then as well as now radio station specifically for us in towing, the only ones that worked was KTOW, or KAY-TOW, that is until I had legendary country music radio personality Bill Mack of creator of the Midnight Cowboy Radio Network and Midnight Cowboy Trucker Radio from WBAP AM out of Texas, do some radio promo’s or liners when we carried the Overdrive Top Ten Countdown. He constantly pronounced the call letters that sounded like COW, not TOE,(TOW). So I emailed a picture of tiny nyloned toes along with instructions.

Of Course when we cranked up KTOW AM in Evanston Wyoming. The station was housed in all places in the same building by the landlord being, no less than a foot doctor.

Now beyond me.

My slogan We LUV TOES started when I saw in a Yellow Pages ad for the Star Garage of Ogden Utah, that went we don’t want your arms or legs just your tows.

Of course I’m not the only one.

Shortly after I temporarily located in Utah, I picked up a newspaper type publication of towing, called PhootNotes. Today that publication hails as TR FOOTNOTES, which I wish I would start getting in the mail there Mr. Candler.

But who was the first to call tow as toe? I’d like to think at times it was me, and I’d love to take credit for that, but I don’t think I can, just as I can’t claim that I was the first to use the cb slang term for a tow truck Hooker. Just maybe publicly .

Finally , am I the only one that took the idea, of loving tows(toes) to the TV screen, in kissing a models toes to demonstrate how I live to go towing>>? Maybe and to answer the question do these models feet stink? I only worked with one whose did, however I think it was due to prep time and immaturity. The best one? Our Ellay May, Duke aka Nurse GoodBody. Her little webbed toes have became the staple of much of our ads. However due to her being more preoccupied these days and getting ready to launch a new ad run to promote Dixie Toewing we are auditioning new talent. As to the combining the two words TOW and TOE into TOEW. A grand gal, who was our own on air sex counselor on KAWR in Gooding, came in one day, saw me hammering away on my keyboard, and said instead of all that just scrunch the words together take the mind work out of it, and get the idea across. This we have done and there that is. Oh the word Hooker? I got that from two sources.

The first was seeing the name describing a hot looking heavy dragin wagon out of Texas called the Happy Hooker. The second was on a set of T shirts my dear friend and mentor Tommy N Thompson of Boise TNT Towing. He did these T shirts up in 1977 somewhere that had a heavy tow rig, a light duty, and a silhouette of a scantly looking gal standing between that read , “ Our Hookers Handle All Sizes” So when a year later I started toewing in Hazzard, I started with Heavy Hooker Wrecker Service, refined in 1984 as Highway Hooker Towing, now spelled Highway Hooker Toewing. Which still runs in Tooele and Eagle Mountain Utah. And still owned by me. As part of Lone Eagle Choppers, there that was the start of Hazzard County Choppers here in Idaho.

So where did the Toe and Tow thing start? Like the owl in the tree that said it takes only three licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, the world may never know.

Is there more to this?

Yes, but ya’ll will have to wait until Monday .

Keep Tween The Ditches,

 

Quote of the Day:
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
--Elbert Green Hubbard

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Some got it, some really don’t but they still try to make you think they do.

There are many people in our world that make you think they have a gazzillion dollars, yet don’t, or are so far in debt that ya’ll think, shit I got it made.

There are as well that do, show it, and use it for the benefit of their clients, supporters and as well as themselves. Realizing that those same clients and supporters are why they have any real money at all.

Of course there are the Scrooges that are too abundant . Like the dude that runs this complex I reside in, oh he’s got money, the fix it guy for the places in Twin, rides in a near new Ford 3/4 ton , yet the guy here in Burley is rolling in a rather worn out van.

Of course there is Charley, who I think could walk on water, that makes sure his people are taken care of. Comparison? Charley looked at the carpet in my new place over there, says I’ll put in new carpet. Guy here in Burley, toilet needs fixed, one guy tried, did a half ass’d job. But hey if he don’t mind paying a big water bill on the place, who am I to argue.

Same goes for both large to medium to small toew fleets.

Mine is not one of the largest by any means, with trucks in Boise, Rigby, here in Burley as well as the greater Gooding/Hazzard County area. Mainly Hazzard. Started in 1978 , continues to do well, in fact of all levels of business we haven’t done all that bad, are not mortgaged up to our door handles, all equipment paid, legal and constantly going. Granted our rigs are not beauty queens, are 20 years to 30 years old, but damn it, on a snow covered road in Idaho at 2:30 in the morning, anyone of them will get the job done.

One accident, only one damage claim, in those 34 years of running, and one of the oldest single original owner/owned fleets in the Mountain West.  Added to that the 12 in Utah and the 6 in Wyoming, Highway Hooker Toewing, Dixie Towing, SpeedWrench Towing and RoadWolf Towing and Truck Service of Wyoming, are still owned by me, created and started by me and still can hold our own against any tow fleet, in Idaho.

With the upcoming eventual merge of Dixie Towing of Burley and Hazzard Idaho and A1 Towing of Twin Falls the coverage and operational capabilities are getting better.

What about the rest of similar fleets?

In Pocatello, there is Denny’s Wrecker Service , Stan's Towing , Custom Towing. In Idaho Falls Idaho Sunkiss and Lyndsy’s Towing, Morgan's Towing . Boise, B&W Wrecker Service, Naylor's Towing and TNT Towing. The rest are merged or absorbed by larger fleets.

I read with astonishment the articles in FootNotes of how bad our industry has gotten, tow companies going under and all, and I get teased a criticized about my old trucks. Sure some do need a beauty and mechanical make over. My Little service truck Sylver Myst, needs a new engine, and paint. LexiBelle my staple, needs a floor board, left side fuel tank, fuel lines and body & paint. But they’re all paid for, still can run calls, which is why I can charge less, than those up to their rumps in debt.

My friend and counterpart Charley has been buying rigs up the kazoo, true he is a good business man, but the debt he’s attaining at a rapid pace is almost equal to what he is making.

Any mile, enuff of that but There are those that have real money, and those that just front , but are broke.

Okay then as I close, every year, our company along with the Knytes-of-Anarchy(aka-Hazzard County Knytes) starts organizing female model talent for the following years calendar. Meaning right now gathering hot hiney’s for the 2014 calendar. Mainly so we can start showing winter scenes. We take 24 of the most luscious home grown built bikes, rat rods and trucks and toew trucks,(tow here is mis spelled on purpose) Put these rigs with some of the best female eye candy, and shoot the best visually hot Hazzard County style calendar and video . Sales of the calendar goes to the charity that our buddy John (Bo-Duke) chairs, the Children’s Miracle Network. For kids who need it for medical care, regardless of their families ability to pay. Two years ago, we raised $24,000.00 that went to the Shriners Hospital in Utah, lets see if we can do the same here, for the kids of Bo'.

If you’re a female at least 19 years old to 65 years old, have the rebel personality and looks of sweet Daisy, and the tenacity of Roscoe chasing the Duke Boys, then let us see you in a jpg, pic so we can include you as a model for the calendar. Contact me through yahoo, at knytesofanarchy@yahoo.com .

Keep it tween the ditches,

Quote of the Day:
An argument is the longest distance between two points of view.
--Dan Bennett

2 Corinthians 3:6“He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.