Disciplinary actions: Vehicle wreckers

October through December 2007

Spanaway — Dick’s U Pull It Auto Wrecking

  • Finding: Salvage.
  • Action: Fined $500.

June through September 2007

Federal Way — Federal Way Towing

  • Finding: Unlicensed wrecking at old address.
  • Action: Fined 15,000.

January through May 2007

Auburn — Federal Way Auto Wrecking

  • Finding: Misused wrecker plate.
  • Action: Fined $500.

Black Diamond — Black Diamond Auto Wrecking

  • Finding: Failed to keep vehicles or integral parts inside the wrecking yard fence.
  • Action: Fined $1,500.

Enumclaw — Fred’s Towing Service

  • Finding: Conducted business of a vehicle wrecker without holding a vehicle wrecker license.
  • Action: Fined $5,000.

Grapeview — Big Jakes Used Parts and Salvage

  • Finding: Delivered crushed vehicles/vehicle parts to a scrap processor without proper documentation, and failed to use wrecker plates when transporting crushed vehicles/vehicle parts to scrap processor.
  • Action: Fined $500.

Roy — Charley Merritt Auto Parts

  • Finding: Stored vehicles outside the wrecking yard fence.
  • Action: Fined $2,000.

Seattle — Monster Auto Wrecking, Inc.

  • Finding:
    • Failed to maintain sight-obscuring fence around wrecking yard.
    • Stored vehicles outside the wrecking yard fence.
    • Failed to mark vehicles and major component parts with yard numbers.
    • Failed to remove and destroy license plates from inventory vehicles.
  • Action: License suspended for 7 days and fined $500.

Seattle — Ralli-round

  • Finding: Failed to mark parts.
  • Action: Fined $500.

May 2006

Kent — David E. Binford and Jennifer L. Binford, dba Binford Metals, LLC

  • Finding: Failed to comply with established place of business requirements (there was no clear boundary between his wrecking yard and its recycling business and personal storage area).
  • Action: Ordered to install sight-obscuring fencing at least 8 feet high around the perimeter of his wrecking yard in compliance with law.

Seattle — Thomas C. O’Brien, David R. Montgomery, Scott Pettit, Don J. Hermanek, Sidney L. Kerley, and John W. Kett, dba Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc

  • Finding: Failed to timely submit monthly reports to the Department of Licensing identifying all vehicles acquired during the previous month.
  • Action: Fined $1,000.

January 2006

Seattle — Auto Depot, Inc. and Peter Nhat Minh Cao and Juliane T. Vuong

  • Finding:
    • Failed to remove and destroy license plates within 24 hours from vehicles on which ownership documents had been received.
    • Failed to keep the activities of the wrecking yard entirely within the established place of business.
    • Failed to maintain an 8-foot sight-obscuring fence in good condition on the south side of wrecking yard.
  • Action: Fined $1,000, $500 of which was excused provided they remain in compliance with the law.