The September issue of Tow Times contains a recovery job on which Bob’s Garage & Towing was joined by towing and recovery industry instructor Wes Wilburn. The accident occurred just after Wilburn had completed a heavy-duty towing and recovery class at Bob’s Garage & Towing’s [...]
The Tow Times August issue News Bits department (page 12) included a request by a retired Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer to identify a 1918 GMC tow/boom truck. Here are more photos of the vehicle. If you have any information about this truck, email Lynn Holman [...]
Editor’s Note: The “Slow Down Move Over” truck is featured in the July issue of Tow Times magazine.
When this loaded tractor-trailer coal truck dropped its wheels off the roadway on a steep curve, the rig flipped over a guardrail. Pennington’s Wrecker Service of Harlan, Ky., used three heavy recovery units to pull the vehicle up and over the guardrail.
In the May issue we covered Snatch Block Part 2. Here are additional illustrations calculating the effects of various line angles when using snatch blocks. View the PDF chart
In the April Tow Times issue article “Snatch Block 101″ (pages 38 and 39) our readers were asked to identify the various parts of rigging in an illustration located on page 39.
Legislators Need to Understand Your Business Examples of how to meet and talk with your legislators can be found at these sites: ASCD How to Talk to a Legislator How to Talk to a Legislator PDF Reach Out and Touch Your State Legislator Advocacy Elected [...]
Jerr-Dan Sponsors CNTA Towing Guide From The January Tow Times issue Industry Insider, “Jerr-Dan Sponsors CNTA Towing Guide”: Conference of Northeastern Towing Associations Officers: President: Chuck Schmidt (ESTRA – New York) 516-627-7630 Vice President: John Glass (GSTA – New Jersey) 973-267-7665 Secretary: Tim Vibert (TRPC [...]
Everyone who held the newspaper on Oct. 1, 2007 thought she was so beautiful; fiery red hair, bright blue eyes, smiling, full of life. But Michelle had always known that about Amanda Frizzley, her best friend, her sister really, she says. Michelle didn’t want to [...]
