Animosus

Rest easy friend.

I'd try a counterweight. Cheaper than stretching it for sure.

https://weldbuilt.com/products/custom-bodies/30-ton-capacity-hydraulic-tunnel-wrecker-short-112-wheel-base/

We've used beacon for over 105,000 calls now. A couple years ago we switched to towbook for about 3 weeks, worst decision ever. Back to beacon we went. I think towbook was more feature rich maybe, but it was liking using a MSDOS program. Beacon has a much nicer user interface for both dispatch and drivers.

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North American Auto Accident Pictures, Towing Division 'an association of independent tow truck operators" Apparently. Not much about them on the internet it seems.

MUTCD Section 6D.03 states: “All workers, including emergency responders, within the right-of-way of a roadway who are exposed either to traffic (vehicles using the highway for purposes of travel) or to work vehicles and construction equipment shall wear high-visibility safety apparel that meets the Performance Class 2 or 3 requirements of the ANSI/ISEA 107–2004 publication … or equivalent revisions" I know our highway patrol will call the next truck on rotation if you show up without hi-vis on.

"Something wrong with the hitch" no mention of anything else.

That is a M3 scout car. It is an unditching roller to prevent it from getting stuck in a ditch. "Upon entering a ditch the roller prevents the front of the vehicle digging-in to the opposite face of the ditch, instead the roller acting as a wide wheel enabling the front to climb out of the ditch more easily."

I had one that got stuck in a hole and then broke something in the drive unit. Winched it out and towed it about half a mile with a police escort. Kinda wish I had them put the boom over my truck to maybe get some of the counterweight weight off the truck, maybe?

We are required to run red & blue lights here in Wyoming. The people that are going to hit you aren't going to care what color your lights are in my opinion.

I don't know if you would consider this a "recovery" so much as a.... transport. There was a tractor trailer rollover several days earlier that killed a few of the animals, and they quickly corralled most of the others. But this fella was loose running around town for about 3 days. It ended up charging an officer who shot and killed it. Animal control said it was too large to get into their trailer to transport and they called us off rotation. I don't know if we ever actually for paid for it, I would assume the insurance for the trailer trailer that was initially involved since it was its "cargo"? No, but they had several good samaritans and such that had been trying to rope it for days. I don't think that was necessary. Absolutely. --- On a more related note though, we did recently train with the fire department for such a scenario.

We have a set of sonetics with 4 headsets. They go on every heavy accident, couldn't work without them. Bill for all equipment used.

You mean that's not how everyone does that? 🤣

All with 6.7s, but we are also at 6,000+ ft and idle a lot.