RecoveryNut Times SPECIAL EDITION

Tragity has struck 2 towing opperators in the past 24 hours and another truck rolled over some timeago.

in seattle, a heavy towing a bus was hit by a car and swerved onto and through the cement wall. the pictures are only so-so but the video is amazing- my condolences to all the opperators, its never easy to be involved in a fatal accident. so sad!

these are from: http://www.kirotv.com/news/6394228/detail.html

from: http://www.komotv.com/stories/41481.htm

from: http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_012406WABaccidentsLJ.34435c67.html

Flatbed in TX

A flatbed slamed into a car an crushed it into a truck. the driver of the honda passed away.

check out the video

these are from: http://www.click2houston.com/news/6442885/detail.html

and

http://www.khou.com/news/local/houstonmetro/stories/khou060125_jt_fatalax.3ae19108.html

Wrecked wrecker

from EBAY they have a B&B heavy duty for auction that was rolled over. i requested more pictures but have not goten a responce. does anyone have any more info on this- where, when, how, is the opperator ok? whoes it was? more pics- REWARD FOR INFORMATION!!!!!!!!!!

you can find this at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2002-27-ton-B-B-Heavy-Duty-Wrecker_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ84152QQitemZ4607280380QQrdZ1

from around the news

from: http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/16888.asp

from: http://www.thehj.com/main.asp?SectionID=9&SubSectionID=32&ArticleID=13248

from: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/13701129.htm

this great shot is from a site that i cant find anymore

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The Towing Meeting

The first monthly meeting of the Chicago Chapter of the Towing and Recovery Profesionals group will meet for the first time on Febuary 9th at 7pm. the meetup is not a sales or membership meeting and it is not assosiated with the PTROI. it is a group of towers, owners and opperators, that just want to get together and swap stories, show off pictures, and solve all of the worlds towing problems. i have started this meetup for the Chicago towing chapter and i encurage you to make one in your area. the first Chicago meeting will happen near O'Hare but i am waiting to get a better idea of how many people will attend so i can make the location at an appropriate size facility- im thinking a bar of some sort. check out: http://towing.meetup.com/ and you can get some more info and sign up for updates. you can also e-mail me for more info or to be put on the list. my e-mail is Towrecovery@aol.com its going to be like the bar at night at a tow show- every month. food, drink, beer, pictures, videos, friendship, ect... what else could you ask for?

Car under Semi

i recently figured out how to take still pictures from video and i posted a whole lot of these type of pictures in this update. i know this is very lame but i record the news every morning and afternoon in hopes that i can catch some helicopter picturs of some acidents. i then copy the good stuff to a towing highlights video.

anyway this is from a few months ago of a car under a semi on the kennedy. these are from Fox news

wheels to the sky-

this is an awsome accident. this is from: http://www.maysville-online.com/articles/2006/01/19/local_news/024wreck.txt


from www.priceless420.com





this happened this week on the ramp from 80/94 in indiana to s/b I65. Olenbergs did the recovery. this is from ABC 7 Chicago


Last update, i had picturs of a recovery District did on I55 and I355. these came from WGN news

the count got placed under a few more posts by accident- check below

rollover hanging off bridge

these are amazing. anyone have pictures of the recovery or know who did this? this is from Seatle. from: http://www.kirotv.com/slideshow//news//6190625/detail.html?qs=;s=7;p=/news/;dm=ss;w=400

van under semi

he hit hard- wow. this is from: http://www.nbc4i.com/news/6360551/detail.html

Car on fence

On January 1 2006, Grand aberdeen had a car that lost controle and slamed into a fence. GAS (grand aberdeen service) had just compleated a Wreckmaster class a few months prior and opted to use one of their signature techniques- the Cruse loop. I have to say, this is probably one of the most flawlessly exicuted recoveries using this method i have ever seen in a real life situation. I was not there and i did not take these pictures, they were e-mailed to me from Jim at GAS