2019 Southern Tow Expo - Live TIMS Event – August 9th, Orange Beach AL

Tow Professional Magazine, the national publication serving the owners of towing & recovery companies, will conduct their 3rd Annual Southern Tow Expo Live TIMS (Traffic Incident Management Scenario) Event on Friday, August 9th at the Orange Beach Event Center, Orange Beach, AL. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) August 03, 2019 - The TIMS or Traffic Incident Management Scenario will wrap of the first day of the 2019 Southern Tow Expo, an annual trade show offering the latest in products & services for the towing, recovery, transport and roadside assistance industries. The demonstration will be a live re-enactment of a traffic accident conducted to provide insight on the procedures and coordination between each group of first-responders, Law Enforcement, Fire/Rescue and Towing/Recovery. This year’s event will again be produced in tandem with the Orange Beach Alabama Police Department and Orange Beach Alabama Fire /EMS who recently launched their EMS Department to ensure fast rescue & response times and to keep up with their growing population,

The event will be emceed by professionals from Wreckmaster Inc. who conduct the show’s training classes each year. Wreckmaster staff will announce a true play-by-play of the re-enactment from the moment the OBP and orange beach fire & OBF&R arrive to the towing & recovery efforts which will utilize some of the industry’s best products and newest procedures.

The 2019 Southern Tow Expo TIMS Event will be the first to be conducted at night, starting at 8:15 CST. and the accident scenario will involve a school bus that has fallen onto a car. In this scenario and in many others the towing & recovery efforts can also be a rescue effort helping Fire and/or EMS to gain access to trapped or inaccessible victims.

Jeff Smith, Deputy Chief of the Orange Beach Fire Department says on the show & event, "The benefits of having an event of this type are enormous for our community. Not only do our personnel get the opportunity to work alongside experienced recovery personnel and see what the towing industry has to offer, they also experience first-hand the advantages of working together with other agencies or industries to achieve a common goal. In addition, the community gets to experience first-hand the complexities and hazards the responders face while working a roadway incident."

Tow Professional’s & Southern Tow Expo’s developed this annual event to stress the fact that towing & recovery is a main part of the first-response equation. An average of 43 per 100,000 workers per year lose their life on-duty each year in towing & recovery which is forty times that of the next most dangerous profession according to the data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data also shows that towers & roadside assistance workers are 200% times more likely to receive serious non-fatal injuries comparatively speaking, In addition to creating awareness on roadside safety with the annual TIMS event Tow Professional Magazine also publishes an annual Wall of The Fallen issue which lists and salutes the towers who lost their lives and are to be memorialized during the ceremony held each year at Chattanooga’s International Museum of Towing & Recovery.

Darian Weaver, Owner of Tow Professional Magazine and The Southern Tow Expo, along with his wife Holly, were constant proponents in Alabama Governor Kay Ivey’s decision to proclaim August “Slow Down & Move Over Awareness Month”. A main motivator for Darian’s production of the event was to alert those outside of the first-responder community to the dangers these professionals face daily.

Owner Darian Weaver states, “The event is an opportunity to educate the public on the dangers that our Police, Fire, EMS & Tow Operators face daily as First-Responders. They are there for our loved ones in their time of need and work 6 inches from the white line. We the public need to remember the motto “Slow Down, Move Over, “so they have the room to operate and make it home to their loved ones as well.”

The Southern Tow Expo will be held Friday August 9th and Saturday August 10th and offers free admission to those in industry and to the public. Show floor hours are 12pm to 6pm CST on both days. The show’s schedule for Friday includes the annual Beach Bash in the parking lot of the Orange Beach Event Center with live music and refreshments.

For More Information on the 2019 Southern Tow Expo TIMS Event, the 2019 Southern Tow Expo and Tow Professional Magazine;
2019 Southern Tow Expo

The Gulf Coast’s only Towing & Recovery event will be held August 9th & August 10th at the Orange Beach Event Center, 4671 Wharf Pkwy W, Orange Beach, Alabama. For More on the Show go to www.SouthernTowExpo.com

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