Once in a while it’s easy.
Somehow this truck got turned over in the process of dumping its load of sand. One of the few times where all that was required was to right it and tow it back to the yard.
Just goes to show you though, if you’re not confident in how your truck is positioned or how your load is positioned, then you should always drive away and reset. Better to take a little more time to unload than a lot of time explaining how your truck turned over.
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It just doesn’t matter. If you’re big and heavy and you roll over, you need something bigger and heavier to get you back on your feet.
40,000 pounds is big but surprisingly it only takes a few degrees off center and even something this big can roll.
As you can see it took a couple of Big Rig Tow trucks and their cranes to upright and get this roller onto a flat bed.
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Have you finally gotten around to getting that old chunk of metal out of the backyard?
How we’re not suggesting that you have a locomotive stashed in your backyard but you might have an old motor home or a big trailer that is going to take more than a regular tow to get it gone.
At Big Rig Towing.com we have the men and the machinery to handle anything bigger than your average car safely and securely.
It might not be the hobby train set you thought you could get back running again, but if your rig is broken down or you have an old motor home that won’t get to the wreckers by itself, give us a call and get it towed by experts.
Ok, we have never towed a train but we have towed some rigs that were just as big.
Grain is heavier than you might think, especially when there’s tons of it.
We talked about cornering too fast in the past and the dynamics of load and centrifugal forces. Everyone knows if you’re too heavy and too fast over you go.
Luckily no one was hurt in this roll over and Big Rig Towing was able to get this rig back on its rubber with very little damage except for lost cargo.
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How many trucks get stuck in the ditch every year because they failed to negotiate a corner correctly or under estimate the steepness of the curb?
That would be an interesting statistic. I would think that cornering and knowing your environment would be the most important part of a big rig driving test. Surely you need to be able to know these things to get hired to drive one of these big trucks.
This flat bed was transporting a farm sprayer when it pulled over to let a car pass. A couple more inches and this would have been a roll over
Big Rig Towing pulls its fair share of hapless rigs and their helpless cargo from many a ditch in southern Alberta.
The only good thing about so much practice is you got to get good at something you do so often.
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How many times have you gone around a corner without incident? Thousands, right? It’s that one time you lose concentration that gets you.
This 130000 lb scraper unit was on its way to a road wash out on highway 22 south of Longview. After recent flooding in Alberta this road needed leveling and grading and was counting on the scraper to help out.
Fortunately this was no roll over and Big Rig Towing had them out of the ditch and on their way unscathed and ready to work.
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