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A tow truck (also called a wrecker, a breakdown truck or a breakdown lorry), is a vehicle used to take disabled motor vehicles off a roadway to another location in case of breakdown or collision, or to impound illegally parked vehicles on public or (more commonly) private property. Three general types are in common usage, usually based on heavy-duty pickup or medium truck chassis: Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 790 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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Breakdown may refer to: Electrical breakdown Chemical breakdown Biological decomposition Nervous breakdown Societal breakdown A breakdown is a statement explaining the details of something such as a bill or cost of a plan A script breakdown for a play, film, or comic book Breakdown (album), by Melissa Etheridge. ...
The result of excessive speed, this cement truck rolls over into the front garden of a house. ...
The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer prepares to offload Å koda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For other meanings, see Truck (disambiguation). ...
A chassis (plural: chassis) consists of a framework which supports an inanimate object, analogous to an animals skeleton; for example in the construction of an automobile or of a firearm. ...
- Hook and chain - Also known as a "sling". Chains are looped around the vehicle frame or axle, which is drawn aloft by a boom winch to rest against a pair of heavy rubberized mats so the customer's vehicle can be towed on its other axle. Slings are not used much today because they can scratch the bumpers of cars. But they are somtimes used for towing vehicles that have been in an accident or have one or two of the front or rear wheels missing or for pickup trucks and other vehicles that have steel bumpers
- Wheel-Lift - evolved from the hook and chain technology to produce a large metal yoke that can be fitted under the front or rear wheels to cradle them, drawing the front or rear end of the vehicle clear of the ground by a pneumatic or hydraulic hoist so it can be towed.
- Flatbed - (Also called a Rollback) the entire back of the truck is fitted with a bed that can be hydraulically inclined and moved to ground level, allowing the customer vehicle to be placed on it under its own power or dragged onto it by a winch.
These are by no means exclusive, as flatbed units exist that also offer a wheel lift, and wheel lift units that also offer a sling Look up Hook in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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 Heavy Tow Trucks in action. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x756, 71 KB) Summary Bennie Nel Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x756, 71 KB) Summary Bennie Nel Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
Operations Tow trucks are usually operated by private businesses, except for major highways and toll roads, where the road authority may operate the tow trucks for that stretch of road. Businesses who operate a large fleet of vehicles, such as school bus companies or package delivery services, often own one or several tow trucks for the purposes of towing their own vehicles. Government departments with large fleets (such as the police departments, fire departments, transportation authorities and departments of public works of major cities) may similarly own a tow truck or trucks. Police department tow trucks may also be used to impound other vehicles fleet, see Fleet. ...
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A car of the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, England Police forces are government organisations charged with the responsibility of maintaining law and order. ...
Firefighter with an axe A firefighter, sometimes still called a fireman though women have increasingly joined firefighting units, is a person who is trained and equipped to put out fires, rescue people and in some areas provide emergency medical services. ...
Thus in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria there is a Tow Truck Act, and tow trucks are identified by the number plates "TT".
GPS GPS is becoming more commonly used to tell the location (of stranded vehicles) to tow trucks. Over fifty GPS satellites such as this NAVSTAR have been launched since 1978. ...
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