Strong Winds and Transport Trucks: How Big Rig Towing Can Help

Big Rig Towing & Recovery Wind Blow OverStrong winds can be a major hazard for transport trucks, sometimes causing them to blow over and create dangerous situations on the road. When this happens, Big Rig Towing is here to help!

Our experienced team can recover and upright overturned trucks using air bags and heavy-duty rotator cranes. These advanced tools and techniques allow us to handle these incidents safely and efficiently, getting you back on the road with minimal downtime.

If strong winds have taken a toll on your big rig, trust Big Rig Towing for professional recovery services.

When it comes to heavy lifting, having an expert rotator operator can make all the difference in getting the job done swiftly and safely.

For immediate 24/7 service, call Big Rig Towing & Recovery toll-free at (866) 398-7444.

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75 Ton Rotator Crane Rights Load of Diesel

Big Rig makes hundreds of rescues and recoveries every year and while they all present individual challenges they are all resolved at the end of the day.

This big load of Diesel ended up on it’s side after taking a turn a bit too fast.

Big Rig Towing & Recovery used our 75 Ton Rotator Crane to get it back on its wheels and to repair.

24 Hour Emergency Service 7 Days a Week. Call 866-398-7444 for immediate service!
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Whoa — a little too tipsy!

Big Rig EmergencyHow many trucks get stuck in the ditch every year because they failed to negotiate a corner correctly or underestimated the steepness of the curb? That would certainly be an interesting statistic.

If you drive professionally, it seems safety and knowing your route, environment, and ultimately cornering, would be the most important aspects of driving a big rig.

This flatbed was transporting a farm sprayer when it pulled over to let a car pass. Yikes — a couple more inches and this could have been a complete rollover.

Big Rig Towing pulls its fair share of hapless rigs and their helpless cargo from southern Alberta ditches. The only good thing about so much practice is that you get really expert at recovery when you do it so often.

Keep Big Rig’s number – 1 (866) 398-7444 – on hand and call for IMMEDIATE 24/7 service if you find yourself in an emergency situation! 

Rollover Rescue

Somehow this roller got turned over in the process of compacting gravel. These 40,000 lb rollers are extremely heavy, but surprisingly it only takes a few degrees off-centre for even something this big to roll. If you’re big and heavy, and overturned, you simply need something bigger and heavier and more rigid to set you upright again.

As you can see from the images below, for this heavy rescue it took a couple of Big Rig’s tow trucks and cranes to upright this roller onto a flatbed.

Big Rig Towing pulls its fair share of hapless rigs and heavy equipment from any number of situations.

Keep Big Rig’s number – 1 (866) 398-7444 – on hand and call for IMMEDIATE 24/7 service if you find yourself in an emergency situation! 

Safety App For Rig Driver

When the truck you driving roles over you better make sure you have your hard hat on. Luckily for this driver he didn’t end up where his hard hat did.

Big Rig Towing recovers many of these seemingly benign role overs every year and most of the time they occur without injury. Big Rig Towing promotes safety first that is why we have our one click app for your iPhone or Android phone so if you do get into trouble help is only a click away. With a gps Google Map locator a one click call to the Big Rig Towing center and a helpful safety guide the app is simple safety device that you can get for FREE from the App Sore or Google Apps or right from the sidebar on our front page.

Download it now and stay safe.

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Close Call

When ever something is  being towed there is always the chance of the load shifting. Even taking a corner just a bit too fast can cause a trailer to capsize. This driver took a corner too tight and fast and caused the trailer to become unhooked. The result was almost disastrous. Fortunately the Audi SUV it was carrying did not leave the deck and Big Rig Towing used their rotator and spreader bar to to roll the trailer and vehicle back on is rubber.

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Dangerous Roll Over

Roll overs are always tricky. Even more so when there is dangerous goods involved.

This roll over was no exception. Loaded with crude oil this tanker took some creative thinking on the part of our Big Rig Towing team to recover.

At the end of the day no one was hurt and the tanker was hauled off to the yard for investigation and repair.

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Easy Does It

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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Heavy Grain

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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