Statewide Kansas Repossession Specialists
Speedy Repo has been operating in communities throughout Kansas for more than 15 years, and we have provided quality repossession services in all 105 Kansas counties. Across the lanes of the Flint Hills in eastern Kansas through the wheat fields of western Kansas, our professional team has learned the ins and outs of repossessing vehicles in the heartland of America.
We have successfully repossessed property from a population of 2.93 million people over an area of 82,278 square miles. Speedy Repo has recovered property during tornado season in Kansas, driven on rural gravel roads to recover vehicles from agricultural properties in rural areas, and coordinated recoveries over long distances anywhere in the state. We have repossessed vehicles from the urban centers of Wichita and Kansas City as well as from rural communities that are central to Kansas agriculture.
We have solved “head-scratcher” recoveries unique to Kansas such as repossessing combine harvesters from wheat fields in the middle of the harvest and recovering vehicles from storm-affected areas in the aftermath of severe weather events. Understanding Kansas’s agricultural economy (40% of America’s winter wheat is grown in Kansas) allows us to schedule and time our repossessions around agriculture’s busy operational periods while still adhering to our professional responsibilities.
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We have a strong service presence in Kansas’s major metropolitan areas including Wichita, Overland Park, Kansas City, Olathe, Topeka, Lawrence, Shawnee, Manhattan, Salina, and Hutchinson. We recognize that Kansas’s economy is heavily focused on agriculture, aerospace manufacturing and food processing, and we have developed knowledge-based capacity for recovering agricultural equipment, aircraft and aerospace components, and commercial food processing equipment. Kansas Service Statistics:
People Served: 2.93 million
Coverage Size: 82,278 square miles
Fleet Size: 45 specialized recovery units
Average statewide response time: 2.4 hours
Kansas-Specific Operational Advantages
Our 15 years of operation in Kansas have provided insight into mastering 3 core challenges that define the repossession work in the Sunflower State:
Severe Weather Response: Kansas is located in the center of Tornado Alley, and we have constructed specific protocols for completing safe recovery during severe weather warnings. Our team has performed over 200 recoveries scheduled during post-tornado conditions; including carry out recoveries of vehicles from debris fields left behind by the Moore tornado outbreak as it traversed through southern Kansas. Each of our recovery units has to a weather monitoring unit and we engage with emergency management officials to proactively create a safe environment during severe weather episodes.
Agricultural Territory Navigation: Kansas is the top wheat producing state and a second in sorghum grain production. We have learned the ins and outs of conducting recovery operations in agricultural territories. We recover everything from standard vehicles submerged in muddy farm yards to $500,000 combines buried in remote grain storage locations. Our operators understand farming cycles and communicate with agriculture communities to minimize disruption during important planting and harvesting periods.
Distance Management: Given the rural nature of Kansas, our average recoveries result with our team traveling 85 miles from dispatch to pick up. We have solved this with asset location including Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City and mobile units that follow Interstate corridors of 70 and 35. Accordingly, and during the wheat harvest season we will position extra crews in the Western Kansas counties to assist with upward of 110% more recovery of tractors and other agriculture equipment. Our specific training encompassed Kansas’s self-help state repossession laws that allow quiet repossessions without court orders. Because Kansas laws of breach of peace are strict, it is good to note that we have zero violations of the state’s breach of peace laws in over 3,200 Kansas repossessions.
Kansas Specific Recovery Services
Standard Vehicle Recovery: We focus on pickup trucks, SUVs and other agricultural work vehicles that are common in Kansas’s farming communities. We recover standard vehicles at a 94% ratio within 72 hours from any remote location in Kansas, including in the Smoky Hills followed by a successful recovery.
Recreational Vehicle Repossession: With numerous state parks and lakes, there’s no surprise moderate RV in Kansas. We have retrieved travel trailers from Milford Lake, motorhomes from Clinton Lake, and get away with boat/RV combinations from Wilson Lake. We have paid attention to the seasonal patterns throughout Kansas for recreational RV usage.
Agricultural Equipment Recovery: Our signature Kansas specialty includes all farm machinery including combine harvesters, tractors, grain trucks, and specialized agricultural implements. We recovered everything from $300,000 John Deere combines to seed drills, and have attention to critical timing for agriculture during Kansas seasons.
Commercial Equipment Recovery: Kansas’s primary industries have become a focus of our commercial equipment recoveries, including aviation equipment from Wichita’s aerospace sector, food processing machinery, and transportation equipment. Our specifically trained team has taken aircraft parts away from Spirit AeroSystems and Cessna facilities, paying attention to their specific handling needs.
Heavy Machinery Repossession: Construction equipment, oil field equipment (particularly prevalent in western Kansas), and industrial machines. We have successfully done repossessions of oil field drilling equipment in Hugoton natural gas fields, and heavy construction equipment away from several Kansas Department of Transportation projects. Specialized Asset Recovery: Including wind energy equipment (Kansas ranks third in the nation on wind energy production), trailers for livestock and grain storage equipment which is critical to the Kansas ag economy.
Complete Coverage Plan for Kansas
Our statewide coverage approach will consider the geography of Kansas, from the glaciated northeast corner to the High Plains of Western Kansas. We have primary centers of operation in the 3 largest metropolitan areas in Kansas while utilizing mobile assets to cover the rural parts of the state.
Major Metropolitan Coverage Areas: Wichita (serving south central Kansas), Kansas City Metro (serving Johnson, Wyandotte and counties east), Topeka (serving capital region/ I-70 corridor), Lawrence (serving Douglas County and university communities), Manhattan (serving Flint Hills and Fort Riley area), Salina (serving north-central ag regions).
Interstate Highway System Coverage: Our locations along I-70 (424 miles across Kansas from Colorado to Missouri), I-35 (Oklahoma to Wichita to Kansas City) and I-135 (Wichita to Salina) allow for rapid response in all areas of the state. The Kansas Turnpike is our main east-west deployment corridor.
The Rural and Agricultural Area Coverage: We do have alternate special routes to cover the heart of Kansas’s agriculture industry counties, in western Kansas as wheat-producing counties, Flint hills for cattle ranching regions; and the corn markets for eastern Kansas as soybean. Our operators understand the navigation of section road routes and have existing relations with county sheriffs in all (105) counties. Geographic Challenge Management: While Kansas’s flat terrain offers visibility benefits, it also creates longer sight lines for contested recoveries. We have modified our approach for the state of Kansas and our crews are trained for recoveries during severe weather in Kansas, which includes the state’s 6-month tornado season and in winter blizzard conditions.
Response Time Commitments: 2 hours for the Wichita metro, 2.5 hours for the Kansas City metro, 3 hours for the Topeka region, 3.5 hours for the western counties, and with emergency weather protocols, we may safely add up to 4 additional hours in the event of severe weather warnings.
Kansas Legal Compliance Knowledge
Our Kansas operations have a deep understanding of the unique condition of repossessions in the state of Kansas that only comes from years of successful repossessions in all 105 counties across the state.
Self-Help Repossessions: As Kansas permits creditors to repossess property without court orders when done peacefully, we have successfully navigated the state’s “breach of peace” requirements, and have a flawless record of amicable repossessions. Our operators know that although Kansas does not require the provision of notice before repossession, we must ensure completely peaceful recovery processes.
Agricultural Property Rights: The agricultural nature of Kansas is a large visual area for perceptible rights. We have successfully navigated recoveries on working farms, and know the difference between recoverable areas (the farmyard) and secured areas (the grain storage facilities), and we time recoveries to occur when it severely disrupts agricultural major operations.
County-Specific Procedures: Navigating 105 counties means varying local procedures as well. We maintain full compliance with an individual county’s document requirements, and only interact with law enforcement agencies based on their regional stipulations. Our Wichita office complies with the requirements for Sedgwick County, while our Kansas City operators handle Johnson and Wyandotte County processing.
Commercial Reasonableness Standards: Kansas law simply states that all repossessions must be commercially reasonable. Our average recovery rates for disposed vehicles are above state average, and retain detailed documentation showing we complied with K.S.A. 84-9-627 specific requirements for disposal practices.
Professional Licensing: We continue to carry authority under the Kansas Corporation Commission’s (KCC) Transportation Division, ensuring all of our tow operators are fully satisfied their respective safety training requirements and we have consulted with numerous training courses.
Documentation Quality: Kansas self-help laws require specificity in post-recovery documentation. We actually have kinetically documented records of all recoveries throughout Kansas, even including photographic proof of how we made our peaceful entry, as well as documenting the condition of the recovered asset and proper notification procedures for each of the items we recover.
Kansas Performance Track Record:
96.2% recovery rate across Kansas
Professional Credentials: Licensed by Kansas Corporation Commission, bonded & insured in all of Kansas, specialized training on recovery of agricultural equipment, certified instructors for severe weather training storm procedures.
Kansas Coverage Areas: Every county in Kansas, including Hamilton County’s wheat fields to Johnson County’s suburban properties, with specific knowledge in delivery to and servicing of agricultural operational areas, tornado response areas, and every condition ever experienced by serving the heartland of America.