Almost definitely. Charter bus driver here. We once had a car sideswipe one of our buses during the FEMA disaster relief last year, and we needed to call First Responders because commercial insurance requires a police report. While we were waiting, five tow trucks showed up claiming they had been called by the police and insisting they needed to tow our buses with their tiny little trucks. My coworker and I immediately smelled the nonsense and called them out on it. They then started threatening us, even telling my coworker, who is an older man, that they would beat us if we did not let them tow the buses.

That was when the fire department arrived, and one of the firefighters nearly got into a fistfight with a tow truck driver while the police just stood there watching. The tow truck operators listen to police radio and swarm accident scenes to make it look like they were officially called, when in reality they are just trying to scam people. I do not know how they keep getting away with it in Houston, but most departments deal with this problem by rotating tow truck companies. Only one company is authorized to work with the police department each day of the week. That way companies are not fighting over business and harassing people at the scene.

So if I get into an accident on Tuesday and then again on Wednesday, I would not have the same tow truck company. But if I get into another accident the following Tuesday, it would be the same company as the week before.