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Towing and Vehicle Release Authorization

Authority to move a vehicle and release it afterwards: who signs, the condition at pickup, the charges and the storage.

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Where this comes from

Not a sample we wrote for this page. This is the document the product puts in your account, as a draft, the moment you say what you do.

Written for your trade

Name your trade during setup — auto repair, towing and detailing — and this is waiting for you, already written, in your words, with the blanks marked and the points a lawyer settles flagged for one. Edit it, or paste in what you already use.

It is a starting point and not legal advice: the wording is yours to change and your attorney's to check.

How it reaches your account

  1. Say what you do. Pick your trade when you set up; nothing to find or download.
  2. It is there as a draft. The 18 blanks marked, and 2 points flagged for a lawyer.
  3. Settle the notes, then send. The product will not send it with a note still in it.

How this works for auto repair, towing and detailing

What it asks you to fill in

Read off the document itself, so this list cannot drift away from what the document actually asks for.

18 blanks in this document

business nameguest namedatevehicle yearvehicle makevehicle modelvehicle platevehicle vinpickup locationdelivery locationinvoice numberauthority basiscondition noteschargesstorage startstorage raterelease tolien days

Each one is a box on the send screen, and a value your own system can pass through the API. The rest of the wording is the same for every signer.

How they are filled

  • Once per send, from what you already know.
  • Or from your own system, through the API.
  • Into the document, never into its wording.
  • What somebody signed is the version they were shown.
Page one of the Towing and Vehicle Release Authorization, as a blank copy for Example Business: the document's title and opening clauses, with a line for each blank still to be filled in.
Page one as the dashboard prints a blank copy: every blank a line, named.

Questions it can ask

Beyond the blanks, a template can ask the signer questions. These come from the product's own question library and suit this document; add them, change them, or write your own.

As the signer sees them
  • Vehicle make and modelOptional
  • Number plateOptional
  • Driving licence numberOptionalHidden from staff once answered
  • Mobile number
  • Home address

Each question is checked where it is answered — a date that is on the calendar, a birthday that is not in the future, an address long enough to be one — in the same words on the signing page, on the counter tablet and in the API, and the signature waits until every required one is done.

  • Sections. Group questions under a heading, and give a section a page of its own.
  • Conditions. Show a question only when an earlier answer calls for it; a hidden question is never asked and never owed.
  • Flags. Put an answer in front of your staff when it needs a person, such as a safety box left unticked.
  • Questions first. Ask them before the document is shown, and the document after.

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What a lawyer has to settle

These are the notes already written into the document, not our opinion about the law where you operate. The product refuses to send a document with one still in it, which is the point of them.

SignSealer does not give legal advice and this document is not legal advice. What it does is put the questions in front of you before somebody signs, rather than after.

Check what disclosure and consent the towing rules where you operate require before a recovery, and what may not be disclaimed.

Check the storage-lien, notice and sale procedure where you operate, and the disclosures a tow operator must make at the roadside.

The document

The real text, with the blanks shown as blanks and the notes above lifted out so they are read rather than skimmed past.

Towing and Vehicle Release Authorization

business name — guest name, on date. Vehicle: vehicle year vehicle make vehicle model, plate vehicle plate, VIN vehicle vin. From pickup location to delivery location. Invoice invoice number.

  1. Who I am. I am the owner of the vehicle, or I am authorised by the owner or the insurer to have it moved and to sign this. Authority: authority basis.
  2. What I am authorising. The tow described, including hooking, winching or recovery as needed, and entry to the vehicle to put it in neutral, release a brake or steer it. I authorise business name to move the vehicle to the delivery location and to leave it there.
  3. Condition. The vehicle's condition before the tow is recorded here: condition notes, together with the photographs taken at pickup, which are kept with this record. Damage not recorded here is treated as pre-existing.
  4. The risks of recovery. I understand that a vehicle that is stuck, wrecked, lowered, modified, all-wheel drive, or in a difficult position may be damaged during a recovery that is carried out properly, including to bumpers, air dams, undertrays and driveline. I accept that risk where the operator uses reasonable care.
  5. Property in the vehicle. Anything in the vehicle stays my responsibility. I have removed what I need, and business name is not responsible for property left in it.
  6. Charges. The tow, mileage, recovery time, after-hours call-out and any storage are charged as set here: charges. Storage runs from storage start at storage rate per day. Charges are due on release unless an insurer has agreed to pay them directly.
  7. Release of the vehicle. The vehicle is released to me or to the person named here — release to — on proof of identity and ownership and on payment of what is due. If somebody else collects it, I authorise that release by naming them here.
  8. Uncollected vehicles. A vehicle left beyond lien days days is dealt with under the law's procedure for uncollected vehicles, after the notice that procedure requires.

By signing I authorise the tow described, and I confirm that I have read this and meant to sign it.

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