Cool. That might come in handy some day, almost invariably
I already own a smaller tow truck. This one is just for amusement factor. I'll have someone redo the interior - unlike my normal stuff. I'll have 'em update it and make it all modern. It will almost certainly never tow another vehicle except for if I want to amuse myself or I seriously screw up somewhere and my guys need to come fetch me from the woods somewhere. I'm probably still gonna call a professional. Two truck drivers they are not. Neither am I, really.
I have never driven a tow truck.
I've driven one that's smaller than this one. It's based on a Chevy 3500. It's your pretty bog standard tow truck from the 80s. It's a 1979, from one of my favorite tow truck companies around.
Actually, they're kinda far away - but boy are those guys able to get the job done.
I don't get 'towed'. I get extracted. The difference is starting at about $600 in difference.
It's a long story but I almost started an international incident - getting a truck mired miles into a trail that goes along the power lines that come in from Canada. They had to shut those power lines down and remove the truck with a helicopter. If it wasn't done in 72 hours, the fine was like $25,000 a day - and we had to coordinate all that. There was fire, police, border patrol, etc...
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