Texas licenses Lone Star Auto Services under new names

by Avi Adelman of Barking Dogs

It only took a week - a record time by state standards - but Lone Star Auto Services is about to get back into the towing business in Dallas. And there's probably not a damn thing the City can do in order to deny them a new towing license.

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations, which is responsible for towing and storage services, issued new licenses last week for Ideal Towing of Dallas LLC and Champion Tows LLC, both located at 8035 East RL Thornton Boulevard in Dallas.

James Mosser, the attorney who represented Lone Star Auto during the City's permit revocation hearing in early December, is listed as the owner of Champion (see license information here - PDF). Loyd Robertson, a manager for Lone Star Auto, is listed as the owner of Ideal (see license information here - PDF).

Another company, Secure Auto Pound and Storage, LLC, was created with an address on Ledbetter Blvd. Hilary Watson, listed as the company President, was a payroll manager for Lone Star Auto (see license information here - PDF).

The entire state licensing and registration process took less than three days, according to the calendar posted on the TDLR website (Ideal, Champion, Secure - all PDFs).

BD's sources say that Lone Star's revoked towing license listed Mosser and Robertson as company officers.

As of late Wednesday afternoon, neither towing service has been issued a City of Dallas towing license. These same sources believe Lone Star Auto will create a number of shell companies in order to maintain the same level of towing business (and the infamous government entity fee) as possible, no matter how many times the City shuts them down.

This information was received too late in the day to get any comments from City officials, but we hope to have something posted by Thursday. The state's lead investigator on the Lone Star Auto case was also unavailable at this hour.

This is a developing story...

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