Monday, August 17, 2015

An answering service is as important as a tow truck for towing companies

The need for a tow truck can be in high demand during weather disasters, and that is especially true here in Wisconsin during a snowstorm.  How many calls especially valuable police calls are missed during those busy situations?  How much revenue is being lost by a busy phone line or if the drivers are out on the road, away from their phone and the call is unanswered?  There is an affordable option for towing companies versus hiring more people in their office or hiring more drivers, an answering service.  All City Communications’ phone lines will never be busy ensuring you will never miss a call and no driver can ever refuse a towing call without your knowledge. 

All City Communications has a wonderful group of trained operators available to answer the calls, no matter the time or the day.  We will make sure every call is answered and every call is dispatched, ensuring you will never miss a valuable service call or ensuring the police calls are treated as a priority.

The phone is essential to a successful towing business.  Make sure there are no obstacles to your customers contacting you.  During the day, we can act as your receptionist or at the very minimum, a back-up receptionist.  During after-hours or weekends when somebody may not be in the office we can be your dispatch center.  During the day, if the phone line is busy or if nobody answers your phone at your office in 3 or 4 rings, the call can get routed to our call center and handled as if we were in your office.  After-hours we can answer the call on the first ring and dispatch the call to your drivers via cell, text or email while also creating a report that allows you to manage your people.  We can tell you on the report when the call came in, when the call was dispatched and how many attempts it took for us to dispatch that call.  Also, since we record all of our calls, we can tell you if any of your drivers are refusing calls. 

If you don’t have a call center for your towing callers, you need one.  Enhance the availability of your business to potential clients without having the payroll expense of new employees.  Answering every call is as essential to your business as the tow truck being available to tow the vehicles.  You wouldn’t allow your tow truck to only be available some of the time to your customers.