Towing Issues: towing charges, honolulu hawaii, tow company

Question
My van was recently towed by a company less than five miles away from where the vehicle was. They are charging me $250.00 EACH way ($500 total) for towing the van, then bringing it back. I was thinking this is excessive. Is towing a regulated industry where there is a maximum they can charge? Do you know what these maximum amounts are? I am in Honolulu

Answer
I do not know the "regulated rates" for Honolulu Hawaii and while I might be able to find then you would have rates for police ordered tows(illegal parking, overtime parking on the street, DUI tows, accident tows in the city and the city is divided up into several zones which the tow companies set the rates for the zone they win the bid for (yes the tow company pays the city for the rights to get the tows in that zone and it can add up to 100's of thousands of dollars paid each year to the city for those rights)

If it was towed from a private parking lot at the request of the property owner then it would be rates set by the tow company...

As to the $ 250 charge to tow it in the first place that is what it sounds like to me happened... As to bringing it back, now that is just plain crazy to me as it does not sound like a smart thing for the tow company to do... Towing it 2 times increases the chances for damage to happen and then if it is returned to the same location it would be hard to prove it was towed in the first place even if it is on the tow truck in the same parking lot...

But then again, I was not there at the location, and I did not do the tow so I do not know the "whole story here"

I hope this helps a bit but I have tried to find information on towing laws in Hawaii and that is hard to do as there are not a lot of them online that I have found yet, but I do keep searching.