09/02/2022
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From the owner:
My heart is actually broken here. I can’t begin to express how ashamed I am by anyone who took part in group slandering our business as well as group slandering ABC Central Towing or any other business in relation to the freedom convoy in Regina, Sask.
I don’t know who was calling the shots that night and started the rumours that Alpine Towing and ABC Central Towing were towing from the convoy, but that person should be ashamed of themselves and I firmly stand behind what I’m saying here…..
Our company did not tow anything from the freedom convoy in Regina Saskatchewan, but boy oh boy have we ever gotten beaten down by hundreds of people like we had. We’re still being handed 1-Star reviews on various platforms. Not reviews that show anyone what kind of work we do. Not reviews showing that we showed up to do our job and actually made a mistake. If we receive a 1-star review it’s already tough to stomach because then we have to figure out where we went wrong and try to connect and correct it with the customer so we can see where they felt we went wrong or if they maybe had a true bad experience with one of our staff.
We’ve been receiving negative feedback and 1-star reviews on various platforms over something we didn’t even do. I’ve received screen shots from many people since that mistake first arose showing me that there were people acting as leadership and instructing others to follow what they were saying. They were group instructing 100’s and possibly thousands of people to give our companies 1-star reviews for towing vehicles and semi trucks from the protest in Regina and then when they realized they had the wrong companies they tried to back peddle like it never happened. Well for anyone out there who isn’t privy to what happened that night.
Our companies did in fact respectfully decline to tow from the protest in Regina Saskatchewan. Not because we’re anti police, not because we were rolling around the block to join the convoy, but because we didn’t want to be involved! Soon after we declined to tow, many of you started taking instructions from people acting as leadership for the protest, and they were falsely spreading rumours and lies that we had in fact been towing from the protest. Group slandering a business is bad enough already. Reviews on various platforms are meant to show potential future customers what kind of workmanship or experience a company provides. There were people slandering our business’s that evening based on someone else’s erroneous instructions, and when it was revealed that the person leading the movement that evening had made a mistake that’s when the 100’s of 1-star reviews and negative feedback we were getting from people turned into 100’s of apologies and some changed their 1-star reviews to 5 star reviews. Not all took back their 1-star reviews I might add. We are still going back and fourth with many people over their 1-star reviews they left us with not to mention we’re still receiving negative feedback and reviews for something we stepped away from having any part in.
It wasn’t the 1-star reviews that bugged me. It wasn’t the many messages we received from people cursing at us or telling us they thought we were disgusting human beings that bugged me.
It was this…..
We received death threats
We received bomb threats
We received threats to fire bomb our homes and business’s with Molotov cocktails
We received threats to have semi’s run over our drivers on the road if they ever see us out there working.
We received threats directed at our children even!
I had one gentleman yell at me from a transport truck while driving on Victoria Avenue near Regina Husky that evening that he was going to turn his truck around and use my service truck as a bowling pin and knock me down and take me out.
Then when everyone realized they had made a mistake that’s when the apologies started rolling in.
I’m all about a peaceful protest. I’m all about people rightfully expressing themselves and their own views. What happened that night was a total disaster and someone should be taking responsibility for that disaster. I’ve never been so disappointed about anything else my whole life to be honest. It comes down to this……
It’s come to my attention that many of you, and by many I mean 100’s or even thousands of people were instructed on various social media platforms to begin leaving us 1-star reviews, calling our offices and flooding our lines with people uttering death threats and bomb threats against us or even threats towards our children. We had one person make the comment that he hoped our children get kidnapped and r***d That’s pretty disgusting.
That’s not a peaceful protest. That’s just plain disgusting.
If you want to peacefully protest I’m all for it. That’s your right. If you want to speak YOUR mind and have YOURSELF heard! I love to see that! But when you start taking instructions from a person or multiple people you are looking at for leadership and they take you down the wrong path in such a way that it’s almost unforgivable……that’s where I have a big problem. The videos stating that our companies were towing the truckers from the freedom convoy are still being shared on social media. There are no videos showing us actually near the protest because we made the choice to stay away from it. There is one video of us sitting in a parking lot about 10-15 blocks away from the protest standing beside our trucks talking to each other and drinking our coffees because that’s exactly what we did. Although many of you have apologized, there are new occurrences happening every hour because of the videos circling the internet stating we were towing from the protest. We are still receiving phone calls from people making the utmost disgusting comments to our staff….and we had nothing to do with towing from the protest. We’re still being handed 1-star reviews in relation to the convoy. Not because we gave a customer a bad experience, but because people are not fact checking and jumping the gun to slander us.
I think all of you wanting to have your voices heard is great. I think all of you speaking your minds and having your own opinions is also great. Unfortunately a lot of you aren’t speaking for yourselves. You’re viewing a video spreading false information and group slandering our businesses that we’ve worked extremely hard for over the years. I think you guys need to stop listening to whomever was leading you into group slandering or group calling our companies or any companies for that matter and have your own voice. It’s one thing to protest and have your own set of views and opinions. It’s another thing all together to listen to someone else’s rumours, act on those rumours and then try to back peddle when you realize it was a mistake. At this point the damage has already been done.
Someone needs to step up and take responsibility for that damage……
