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A bipartisan coalition, including an influential property management executive, is forming to push for a legislative revamp of Iowa's weak towing laws.

Critics and vehicle owners allege predatory business tactics, excessive fees, and demands for cash payments by some towing companies.

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Joel Suarez got so upset in August when Crow Tow came to haul away one of his company's work vans from a posted no-parking zone that he took out a knife and slashed a hole in a passenger-side tire of the tow truck.

Suarez isn’t proud of that tense moment on a high-pressure day when too much was going wrong, but he says he did so out of great frustration.

The Crow Tow truck driver, Suarez said, had demanded $240 in cash to drop the vehicle at a work site on Guthrie A

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