I been towing since 1980 and always kept A traffic lane open if this guy was A experienced recovery man he could of did the same.

It sure takes talent to be a good tow truck driver and I don’t care what anyone says. You have to know what your doing or many could get hurt and maybe even lose the tow truck too. Great job guys and thanks for sharing.

some tow truck drivers do the best they could with what they bring to the table. Thats one of the lessons i learned from level 1 training many years ago from The God Father of towing. RIP SC. This is actually a good training video on how to do it another way...

Nice work driver!!! Clean pick and safely done!! stay safe out there!!!

Good job guys

Thanks for sharing your video

I've done more with less but that was a long time ago before I got "smart" and realized that there is a truck for every situation. as a CIRT instructor that's one of the points I stress constantly.

great work.

Iv been doing recovery on the turnpike in fla and have towed out some crazy shit but this wrecker driver is bad ass !!!

nice recovery . my dad was a tow truck driver . i seen him use extra pullys,and all other sorts of good tricks to tricky pull outs

you know what sometimes you just gotta f*** with the whole situation that you're in and figure out what works best

When my wife gets stuck in her recliner, I call this guy :)

Of course he's gonna say that the best thing to do is "take it back to our place".

It's always nice buying them in this shape....

Nice job !!!

I think he did a hell of a good job

It IS textbook what we get asked to do ALL the time in the tow industry. SHP calls and says GET IT OUT. And they dont want to hear "The proper way is going to take more time and another truck." However, as the operator, you HAVE to take charge of the scene and take care of the equipment, and your own safety. There were multiple times in that video that I cringed for the operator's safety.

wheelift is used for both towing the broke down car and also to attach the spade to for anchoring the tow truck.

Looks like a lot of stress on that Dodge 5500 frame and the wheel lift pulling a F-350 with 22.5 tires sideways up an embankment. I believe that is a Century 412 since it only has one cyl. for the boom. That is a light duty unit doing the job of a medium duty if you ask me.I like the part of him shaking his head about taking it to the shop of the owners choice, but I can't blame him he will make more off storage than he does for the recovery!!

good job!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very nice recovery.

another fact they are still #1 in sales

he does have it on a high idle system cuz most likely his winch system is running off the idler shaft in either the transmission or the transfer case as either a hydraulic pump or as a chain drive

this makes me happy

Job well done .. Good recovery .

I just bought a 2005 F250 and read the manual. Ford states that these trucks can lose control and go where you don't want them to. They are heavy and tall but the worst thing is our roads are designed to throw you down a hill and trap you in a ditch with no possibility of recovering your wayward truck. Now look at the bright side. Firemen and tow truck drivers get something to do and make a little money. The auto repair guys have work and don't forget the hospital. Heck this truck most likely is totaled so the local dealership gets to sell another vehicle. This is another version of trickle down economics, the poor saps insurance money gets thrown all around this great nation of ours. After this wreck the tow truck operator will shine up his truck and the hospital will clean the bed sheets and restock, waiting for the next unlucky person to do it all over again. Any body can see that if some deer jumps out in front of you here you have no where to go but down in the ditch. Always wear your seat belt. On TV the other day they actually showed some poor guy being whipped out the drivers window from a truck like this and must have gone up in the air over 20 feet looking like a rag doll after he rolled it about 8 times. I think he lived though. The first thing the anchor man said though was"no word on whether alcohol or drugs were involved." Like that somehow makes it okay to relish in the spectacle of these wrecks and peoples misfortune.

That is how it is done!!

That's a lot of stress on that equipment, I would've done the recovery with a 20 ton but that's just me and if you like it I love it. For the record I own a 35 ton and to all the operators out here whether you drive a 10 ton to a 70 ton rotator

Oh ok....I have never seen something like that. It's crazy. I can understand putting some bigger tires on but damn this is just insane.

haha thats funny that cummins fans really think it this video has anything to do with engine in the tow truck!!!!!!! keep reaching boys. and on a side note, nice recovery with that small of a truck. well done.

wow - the power - the minion truck that crashed is no match for winch.... shows u that industrial equipment outperforms weekender trucks with ease.

very nice recov. that was a bad ditch to be in, but gotter pulled out and in good time.

Good job steve y look like a pro..

Great job! And you got the insurance tow. I hope you got at least 2 hours on it, I would have put 3 LOL? My kind of tow truck driver,

nice recovery work good job and some people think this work is easy if every in new york stop in and see us prestige towing harris n y old rt 17 at exit 102

2 Ton Wrecker operator here, and this was not the ideal way to recover this F350.

on wreckes your suppose to pull up and get out and look how your gonna do it then put your truck where needs to be where you recover out what your recovering without haveing to move the wrecker any where you pull it straight out to your wheel lift then hook and go police dont like you to half to keep movin around they want you to hurry in a safley manner get it out and get gone cause whatever wrecker service is the quickest and the safest and the best is the one they will call the most

Are the extensions over the dual wheels just made out of plastic?

ya the man ronald...bud from baity tire.

Was a nice F350.. That bites.

That ford is badass

Haha you're not kidding, I see somebody in a ditch every week when december rolls around.

Recovery lessons required.

Ohh God!!!! Eye roll!

Pick sides all you want, I'd be happy to have either truck. (even as smashed as that ford is, its still a nice rig.)

A whole bunch of arm chair quarterbacks here that couldn't pull a carrot out of the ground.

Nice recovery... That f350 is about the limit of that 5500 Dodge IMO.. Had to be a 9k truck easily.

Bravo

I like how the authorities shut down the road for him. Don't get that driving wrecker in Montana. And that operator needs some Wreckmaster training. I hope that abuse doesn't catch up to you.

@ John Appleseed- Wow, you sure put me in my place. You're a pretty sharp fella', what with your quick witted and intelligent reply. Your intelligence astounds me.

Not sure what you are watching but I saw the WINCH doing the work, not the Cummins

Damn he’s good

all the strain was because you don't use the wheel lift for any kind of support, that's why the front wheel came off the ground, they make wheel chucks for that

I don't know what was rougher the tow truck operator, or the ride in the truck going off the road into the ditch

Very good very good

Doge !!!!!!!! + ford if that ford wasn't in a crash and still good it would be like Christmas

Damn....I can see why it flipped......Look at the size of those wheels!!

Rookie. He should've parked his truck on the other side of the road facing away from the wrecked truck, Or camera view. Put the wrecked truck in park. grabbed the right front with J-hook, Or wrap a chain through Lower frame, (on low end) and winched it all the way out in one shot. 10-15 minutes at max. The road would be blocked regardless. I miss this shit. lmao

Damn that truck got tore up

As a certified Wreckmaster, I made a promise not to publicly criticize other tow operator's actions. That being said, I recommend this tow operator contact Wreckmaster for enhanced recovery training

great job!!!!

Actually its a Hydraulic Winch Powered by the Cummins engine if you want to get technical.

i think this tow truck driver went about it the hardest way possible, dragging that big ass dually through the mudd yes its called a tow truck but those steel ropes do have a breaking point and just cuz the truck is say 10 thousand lbs doesnt mean anything add more for pulling it sideways and then some more ontop of that for the gravity and now you probably have 15 or more thousand lbs on that rope trust me, im not a to truck driver but do work for a crane manufacturer.

not bashing casue everyone has their way of doing things but i would have grabbed both drivers side tires with endles loops pulled it right up the bank sideways and on the street taken the wrecker and put it further away from the bank according to wreckmaster that truck is being overworked but he lines and the boom are within spec just seems that he could have done the recoveryt in one shot instead of re hooking the lines and re positioning the truck but either way the job got done no one was hu

holy fuck, look at that scratch

True - except the winch is hydraulic, not electric.

agreed...

Drag truck perpendicular to tow rig up steep incline with boom high = most force required on winch and tow truck, good way to catch a broken cable in the head.

That was a really nice truck not no more tho

@johncald1977 yes and snatch blocked it too would have made the job much easier on the boom and winch

its your disicion wat you like

Good luck it even

its all about gearing.

That driver is very smart and experienced! Nice job!

Is it just me or did anyone else notice that the Dodge 5500 did NOT pull the F Truck out, It's electric winch did.

cool

looked like a pretty successful recovery to me...why fault the guy?

is this frendship ledford road?

it still pulled it out

well it was a nice truck

Steve Venable

@Sykora171 more like fiberglass. not plastic

good old ford never gets stuck, ha

@12:11 so he can stack up storage fees and charge the insurance company. 💲

that will buff right out.lol

How come no track marks. So how did he get in that position

okay he has a bad ass pto and hydrolic pump but if wheels come off the ground that means he doesn't have enough weight to be pulling that truck out of the ditch

Whatever works man.

ID LIKE TO KNOW THE MAKE OF THAT WINCH, BLOODY POWERFUL!!

keep your boom low you finally fig that out at the end thata boy

hey mama

Technically the truck did pull it out. The winch is a part of the truck. Quit being butt hurt trucks are trucks its just people have their prefarance on brand.

pull out out the way it went in......

Well said!

He should have put on the spade before the first time lowering the wheel lift.

man it seems like you got that Cummins idling really high! PTO sounds kinda strained.

When's the last time you saw a wrecker PULL anything out? That's what winches are for.

it says North Carolina on the door...

I ain't gonna beat ya up, you got the job done BUT I would have called back for a medium. If your PD dispatch is like mine the call came in and they never mentioned that its a 1 ton dually down in the ditch.

i run a wrecker 27 years he should have used snatch blocks doubled his winch