Statewide Rhode Island Experience
Speedy Repo has perfected asset recovery throughout Rhode Island’s 1,214 square miles, growing and learning with a population of over 1.1 million people from the beaches of Westerly to the mill neighborhoods of Woonsocket. As Rhode Island’s most experienced repossession service, we understand that Rhode Island’s size creates a large set of challenges, from dense urban traffic in Providence, island communities with difficult bridge access, and a 400-mile coastline when you consider the various bays and twists of Narragansett Bay.
In our Rhode Island operations we have handled everything from luxury yachts in Newport Harbor to commercial fishing boats in Point Judith, heavy equipment in the Blackstone Valley district, and recreational boats sprinkled throughout the state’s 38 coastal/bay communities. We have recovered a boat with no visibility in a nor’easter that closed the Newport Pell Bridge, successfully recovered calls on crowded festival weekends in Federal Hill’s old Colonial streets, and have recovered many vehicles when it crossed into Massachusetts or Connecticut—something that occurs frequently in Rhode Island that has short borders.
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The Ocean State economy spans traditional manufacturing in Providence and Cranston, tourism assets in Newport and South County, and marine trades from Westerly to Bristol. Our crew knows there are varying levels of expertise in repossessing a lobster boat as compared to repossessing a jewelry manufacturing truck or university vehicles on Brown or URI’s college campus.
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Rhode Island Facts:
Population: 1.1 Million
Size of State: 1,214 Square Miles
Operating Fleet: 145 Vehicles
Average Recovery Time: 45 Minutes
Ocean State Operational Strengths
Mastery of Coastal Navigation: Rhode Island’s barrier islands, 400-mile coast, and waterways, have presented a unique problem that we have tackled thousands of times. We have specialized equipment to accommodate Prudence Island, Conanicut Island, and Block Island recoveries and work in conjunction with ferry schedules and any tide dependent boat launches. We are immensely proud of being able to recover vessels from the aftermath of Hurricane Bob as well as threading our way through a sea of boat traffic on the Newport Folk Festival weekend.
Dense Urban Recovery: Local knowledge related to Providence’s Federal Hill, the Hill neighborhood, and downtown’s one-way colonial street grid takes time to know (or in our case experience). As an example, we have been able to complete recoveries in places where GPS fails, during WaterFire events when the street are closed unexpectedly, or in neighborhoods where parking enforcement creates issues for us and our agents.
Manufacturing Corridor Recovery: Because of the industrial heritage of the Blackstone Valley, we routinely handle specialized manufacturing equipment, jewelry-making machinery, and textile industry items. We have experience caring out a complicated recovery of electroplating equipment from a Cranston facility and have facilitate the repossession of industrial looms, which required us to utilize specialized transport and environmental considerations.
Rhode Island Recovery Services
Standard Vehicle Recovery: We represent all of Rhode Island’s, compact cars (great for narrow city streets), pickup trucks (popular with Rhode Island’s solid construction industry), and SUVs (which are critical for navigating coastal flooding created by storm surges).
Marine Asset Recovery: With significant marine assets in the Ocean State, ranging from fishing boats on Block Island, and sailing yachts in Newport, we work with the harbor masters, tide schedules, and transportation of marine assets. Commercial Equipment Recovery: Targeting equipment from Rhode Island’s jewelry manufacturers, restaurant inventory from the eateries of Federal Hill, or construction equipment that will be used on the state’s many ongoing public works projects.
Recreational Vehicle Recovery: Every conceivable recreational vehicle from camping trailers heading to Burlingame State Park to luxury RVs traveling to Newport’s exclusive campgrounds, and coastal vacation spots.
Industrial Asset Recovery: Specialized recovery of lost manufacturing equipment located within Providence’s industrial business community; equipment like textile machinery, metal fabrication equipment, and specialized tooling utilized by Rhode Island’s defense contractors.
Emergency Fleet Recovery: Emergency recovery service to commercial fleets, including delivery vehicles based out of Providence’s congested downtown, vehicles used by Rhode Island’s tourism industry during the peak summer season, and municipal equipment used for recreational and commercial businesses in the state, including Rhode Island’s 39 cities and towns.
Comprehensive Coverage of the Ocean State
Our Rhode Island strategy acknowledges the unique task of operating in the nation’s most densely populated state with rapid-response recovery services across urban centers and coastal communities. The Providence metro area benefits from sub-30-minute response times, while our coastal and rural coverage means same-day service is possible across the Ocean State, even to Block Island during ferry season.
Coverage Areas: Providence, Warwick, Cranston, Pawtucket, East Providence, Woonsocket, Newport, Westerly, Bristol, Middletown, Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, Smithfield, North Providence, West Warwick, Johnston, South Kingstown, Coventry, and Narragansett.
Interstate “Border” Coordination: Given Rhode Island’s unique borders with Massachusetts and Connecticut, we remain highly coordinated across state lines. We have working relationships with recovery services in neighboring states and we know how to fulfill the legal requirements for cross-border recoveries which is significant when you consider how many Rhode Islanders work in Massachusetts or Connecticut.
Coastal Access Strategy: Our specialized practices that involve tide charts, marina relationships and weather monitoring systems are essential for accomplishing successful recoveries in the maritime environment of the Ocean State. We have developed protocols for assets that are located on islands that can only be accessed with a ferry, or private boat.
Rhode Island Legal Compliance
Rhode Island’s repossession laws require certain procedures that we have become accustomed to over our long history of business in the Ocean State. The state has a 20-day redemption period in addition to specific procedures for notices; we have learned to to pay specific attention to the relevant details. Rhode Island General Laws Title 6 governs our operations and we comply with all licensing requirements through the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation.
We consider Rhode Island’s “peace breach” provisions and understand how to navigate enforcement when it comes to the ability to engage in personal recovery claims in this dense urban environment where situations can escalate quickly. Our processes have accommodated Rhode Island’s unique requirements for personal property inventory and storage procedures that are not consistent with bordering states processes, and we have accepted this modus operandi.
Rhode Island courts require extensive documentation in this aspect of repossession procedures and we have ample evidence we’ve perfected the method of repossession without having a successful pleading against our practices in Rhode Island over the past five years. We have specific professional liability insurance relative to Rhode Island operations and have sound understanding of Rhode Island practices with respect to cross jurisdictional recovery.
In business in Rhode Island for over 12 years with a 94% successful recovery rate dealing with the geography of the Ocean State; we maintain an average response time of 45 minutes for 95% of the locations in Rhode Island due to specialized protocols we have developed for extensive logistics to provide same day service to Block Island or other difficult coastal locations.
Rhode Island Credentials: Licensed, bonded and insured in accordance with the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation licensing requirements, with additional endorsements relative to marine assets recovery and interstate recoveries.