A-1 Wrecker Service

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August 7, 2016

The city of Albany has a contract with A-1 Wrecker Service for all of the city’s towing needs. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

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Robert Lane remembers well talking to city officials about starting his own wrecker service with a single truck and a lot of ambition back in May of 1982.

Robert Lane, left, and Robert Gilliam with Albany-based A-1 Wrecker Service say city officials have shown very little understanding of the wrecker industry. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Robert Lane, left, and Robert Gilliam of A-1 Wrecker Service in Albany offered invoices that show some local wrecker companies charge as much as four times more for their services than A-1’s standard charges. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

These “rollback” wreckers are among the 16 trucks that are part of Albany-based A-1 Wrecker Service’s service fleet. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Robert Gilliam, who manages A-1 Wrecker Service of Albany, said city officials hurt the local wrecker service businesses that follow the rules and endangered citizens with their recent vote to alter their wrecker policy to a “tiered” system. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Robert Lane opened his wrecker business with a single truck in 1982. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

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Carlton Fletcher

Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.

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