With the 135,000-pound excavator on its side in a 15-foot hole, it took a Century M100 wrecker and a John Deere 470RR built for railroad recovery to do the job.
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World’s largest tow truck rescues 135,000-lb excavator from parking garage
A routine demolition job in Washington, Pennsylvania, turned into an extraordinary rescue operation after ...
When a 50-plus-ton Cat excavator fell into a hole in Washington, Pennsylvania, the world’s largest rotator recovery truck arrived to help pull it out.
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Tow truck saves semi from elk
In this episode of Murphys Diesel, Wrecker Rick responds to a collision involving an 80,000 lb semi-truck that struck a 500 lb elk, blocking lanes of traffic on the interstate. Rick and Hotrod arrive ...
Tow trucks called to the scene of a tractor-trailer accident need a lot of muscle to get a big rig back on its wheels and towed out of the way. That’s why Oshkosh Truck Corp.’s towing equipment ...
The Butte-Silver Bow Fire Department recently collaborated with GTR Towing in a hands-on training session using GTR's Rotator ...
“We started the business back in 1999 with a garage and one rollback," Clifton said. "We’re up now to five heavy wreckers. We have two rotators, and we take trucks all over the country.” His newest ...
The relationship between truck owner-operators and towing companies can certainly be contentious, but Kentucky-based Clifton Parsley tries to bridge that gap with his show-quality 2024 Peterbilt 389 ...
Jake Hoffman's tips for fire departments for working with towing companies on the rescue scene helps to remove hindrances that would complicate or delay victim removal. It behooves fire departments to ...
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