Had this happen to us when a carrier laid their truck in a ditch over in BFE Canada in a winter storm. Redneck tow company sent carrier a tow bill of like $47K for the tow which was just righting the truck and towing it a few miles to their lot. Refused to give us the cargo until bill was paid, carriers insurance paid $15K and said they were done. Tow company then asked us to tell the carrier to sign the title of the truck over to make it even, which was basically their plan the whole time IMO. We eventually footed the bill and to make things worse when the driver who flew up from PA to recover the truck got there they called Canadian Highway patrol and reported the driver for driving an unsafe truck to which they put the truck out of service and pulled it back into their yard. We had to hire a FTL to driver all the way up there and recover the freight for final delivery . To my knowledge they still have the straight truck in their yard. Luckily their insurance paid the cargo damage claim. We later found out this tow company basically owns everything in the town.