Jude Towing

In response to this last review, unfortunately, yes, they also have a locksmith service. The problem is that the locksmith is not a locksmith and his idea of being a locksmith was to break the lock without permission. So in fact I should be filing a police report and not a Unilocal report.

My Jeep battery died in West Hills. I found Jude Towing on my IPhone and called their number, (818) 854‑7630. The man who answered quoted me $ 75 for a jump start and said that I could use a credit card to pay. He said his driver could get there «right away.» One minute later the driver called to tell me he would be there in 20 minutes. He was calling from (323) 599‑8991. An hour later, the driver showed up. But now, he changed the price on me and said $ 75 was just for the response and he needed another $ 20 for the jump. Plus $ 5 as a credit card use fee. I told him to pound sand and that I would call somebody else. I began to call another company while this guy was still there. He said «ok, ok, I’ll charge you $ 75.» But it was too late for that and I asked him to leave. He stayed put and I had to threaten to call the police to get him to leave. He finally left. The other tow company said they could get there in 45 minutes so I waited. But after just 4 minutes I got a call from (818) 300‑9235 and the person calling said he was right around the corner. I assumed this was the second tow company calling and I just felt grateful that it wasn’t going to take 45 minutes after all. This person showed up driving a beat up Hyundai and the driver had a woman in the car with him who did not look very friendly. I still thought this was the second company and I let him jump the car. After I got the car running, the guy suggested I follow him to an ATM so I can pay with cash. Supposedly to save me the $ 5 credit card use fee. So I followed him, got the cash and paid him $ 75. All seemed to be well. But a few minutes later, as I was driving home, I received a call from the second tow company advising they were about 15 minutes away. I was confused at first but it didn’t take me too long to realize that the person who jumped my car was actually another driver from Jude Towing! Jude Towing had sent another driver, driving a different vehicle! All this trickery just so they could get their freaking $ 75. Later I looked at the receipt that the Jude driver gave me and it was for what I believe is a non-​existent locksmith service. There was no address on the receipt, just a phone number, (323) 305‑4222. So I fell for this one and learned a valuable lesson about the towing business in LA. Jude got their cash but they also got this negative rating in Unilocal