Heavy-duty tow trucks are designed with reinforced chassis ... Specialized equipment such as underreach wheel lifts, air cushion recovery systems, lowboy trailers, and rotating boom recovery ...

Reid repositioned it underneath the front of the Chevrolet Equinox, despite having no previous training on the equipment. He then used the rear of the tow truck’s bed to lift the car off of the ...

Cars are towed with wheel-lift equipment. Today's vehicles are more fragile in the way they are built as opposed to yesterday's cars, Leep said. Driving a tow truck requires going through an ...

A tow dolly lifts the front wheels of the vehicle off the ground ... such as a chain hook on the truck's hitch. The towed vehicle should also be monitored from inside, with a driver handling ...

The "L-arms" at the end of the tow truck's wheel lift, though, appear to get caught in the truck's suspension and in the wheel wells, doing a number on the bedsides, and preventing the vehicle ...

Investigators describe the suspect vehicle as a Ford tow truck with a wheel lift mechanism on the back. Some of Walker’s colleagues at say they all were shocked when they learned what happened ...