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Went to the truck show today...thought I would post a few wreckers I saw...

It seemed to be a huge turn out this year of trucks...a lot of nice iron.

Had a 3am truck fire the other night...

Fortunately the fire company got it out before it got to the batteries, fuel tanks or tires...

We cleaned up the heavy debris that night but informed them that we would be back in the day light to do a proper restoration...

Scraped up the mess & dumped in to our Dump Truck for disposal...

That's a pretty fish, isn't it?...😁

Forgot the seed & straw so one of the guys brought it up to us...

In 2 weeks you won't even tell that anything happened here...

Mostly just charred residue & dirt so we dump this in a roll off can I keep at the shop.

Pretty sure this one is ALL done...

Guy calls the other day and asks if we could fix his new "Wink" electric car?...I figure, ok...I'll play along... Have to admit I never heard of them.

I guess it's like a "community" car, not actually street legal. We towed it from a local country club.

Build quality wasn't too impressive. This one was shipped to him and has an issue with the electrical system.

This one kicked my but a little yesterday...Dodge 5500 service truck that snapped off the tie rod end...

These are just too heavy for the 408. The truck does it "ok" but the unit isn't happy... Kind of can't wait to get a proper medium duty back...

Good luck with that...they are non existent back east here. Could you use a newer generation aluminum body?

Can't imagine what it's like there... The smoke is bad at our shop and we are 500 miles away...

We do a lot of different things to support our community and the publicity & exposure is worth 10 fold... Here are a few examples...

We donate a new tool box to the Highest Achieving Senior Awards program at our area Vocational School...

This was my 28th year doing this. I also presented the certificate at their Graduation Ceremony.

Contacted by our local historical Society to assist in moving a sign from a local Restaurant/Inn that went out of business during covid... 

The original Inn was built in 1825...shame to see it go...

Here we participated in a local Touch A Truck...

Kids got a kick out of the machine as well.

Any chance you have to support your community, take it !

Just a couple of tows in the last 24 hrs....

45 mile tow to the customer's residence for a blown engine...

25 mile tow for a bullsh*t story with a truck that the customer didn't want to have to return....

Sterling Box tk back to the shop for a no start...

Concerned because it was pretty high...took this pic to show the cable wire at the pole was already broke (a little CYA). I measured it just in case...

A little over but nothing to worry about. If it was air ride, I would of dropped & tight chained the suspension but no luck...

23 F650 w/ some unhappy engine noises...

45 miles to a dealer instead of our shop since it was under warranty...

Just emptying out my phone... 😁

Never fails in this business. Whenever you make plans, something ALWAYS comes up...

Staging for a 2 car crash, 6:00 Friday Night

Couple other jobs...

I took the new chassis out to East Penn's West shop in Mercer PA to have the body installed. My original plan was to load it on my 600 and tow it out there since I knew it would be a rough ride...

A little too "sketchy" for a 300 mile trip...LoL It would of fit on our Peterbilt but then I would have to move things around. I ended up deciding to just drive it out and my buddy was giving me a ride back home...

Put some temp rear flaps to keep DOT from bitchin...

This is the base unit getting installed along with a tunnel box.

A few other pics of their facility...

My buddy's new chassis getting a 12 ton mounted on it...

Made for a long day...600 mile trip, but got to spend some time in the truck and it works well. Excited to get it back...sometime in August.

Truck was found & returned to the owner.

Rob & I had some "Community Service" to do this morning...

We were contacted by the Pocono/Jackson Township Historical Society to transport the old sign for

The Tannersville Inn. They want to restore parts of the sign and eventually use it for a display at the

Historical Center. I have been going to "The Inn" for 50 years and have many great memories there.

It's a shame that the facility couldn't have been revitalized for future generations.

But, I guess "that's progress" as they say...

Well anyway, we were glad to help out the Historical Society in preserving some local history which

is a topic I am very fond of. If you have an opportunity to help folks in your community, please do

because they work very hard at their cause.

Very nice dedication...

Today we did a Memorial Procession for a local operator who lost his fight with cancer...

Shame...good guy that was only 49...

https://www.poconorecord.com/obituaries/psom0473368

Got a wake up call the other morning at 4:00...The call center said it was rolled over in the woods, over a stone wall so we wanted someone to help out the rollback on scene...

Obviously speed was a factor...

I set it down and an easy load on the carrier...

18 hours ago, Stuart Wagner said:

Definitely a nice pic. I don't know how guys have enough room with 2 toolboxes on a rollback. I have (4) 48" toolboxes on my rollbacks and they get full with shelves for all the different tie downs and chains and equipment for crashes.

Our right side has a basket as well, the trash can and assorted stuff is in that. These are pretty full though, I'll admit. We typically send out a crash truck for accidents if there is additional stuff needed for recovery & clean ups...

I had a Volvo Triaxle broke down in the middle of a big busy intersection by us a while back...Fully loaded...I told the officer I'm sorry but I have to pull the shaft before moving this. He understood... 

This is a project we are starting for one of our Fire Company customers...

Our task is to modernize the drivetrain, make it an Automatic with all of the modern amenities, but keep it's antique appearance.

This one looked like it could be in a Jerr-Dan advertisement...LoL

One of our commercial accounts bought this to maintain their parking lot... 

Congratulations everyone...

So a little bit of work getting done on the new chassis...

Some Color work done to customize the look...

I wanted the frame to be nice and deal with rust issues. My guy stripped it down and masked all of the important components to make it look fresh but not "dipped" in black...

Took quite a bit of time to cover the floor & all equipment that we didn't want coated but the effort didn't go unnoticed...I was very happy with the outcome...

We installed new drive tires because I'm not a fan of the factory Continentals. We have customer's that buy the new take offs so it's not a big loss...

Outside to bake in the sun some and then a quick bath before getting put on a pedestal...

We had a meeting with the builder this morning and ironed out all of the details we need completed. The truck goes in for the body in a couple of weeks and will be done by the end of summer...

Had to get my 79 Coupe De Ville out to a specialty for some detailing & interior repairs...

Both rollbacks were doing calls & I didn't want to wait...figured if it was a warranty tow, it would of been on a sling so....LoL I jacked it in a turn to check the overhang clearance & suck it in as far as I could...She's a big girl... Took a "photo opp" at the same time...

Dam that's cool....

A couple of jobs this week...

Small dump with the parking brakes stuck on, coming back to our shop for repairs.

Customer's Excavator coming back to the shop for engine work

A FreeBee ...LoL Rob dropped the dump off for full detail service

Uhaul back to the shop for a wheel bearing failure.

That's incredible...