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A tow truck (also called a wrecker, a breakdown truck, recovery vehicle or a breakdown lorry) is a truck used to move disabled, improperly parked, impounded, or otherwise indisposed motor vehicles. This may involve recovering a vehicle damaged in an accident, returning one to a drivable surface in a mishap or inclement weather, or towing or ...
HR 126 – 1999 Peterbilt 379 Vulcan V70 (25 ton), Wrecker body is a 2015, truck went into service in 2016, sold to Peninsula Towing in Vancouver Island January 2021 HR 127 – 2019 Mack Anthem, Century 5230 (30 ton) Burned in a fire due to brakes catching fire on a downhill while towing a tractor on May 16, 2022.
In 1940 their designs for a 6-ton truck and a 10-ton wrecker chassis were standardized, with Corbitt to build 6-ton cargo trucks, while the 10-ton wreckers were contracted to Kenworth Motor Truck Corp. and Ward LaFrance Truck Corp. Ward LaFrance began production in 1941 and would build 4,925 vehicles.
The potential sale of a further 20 was announced in August 2016. [18] Spain: 1× M88A1 in service with the Spanish Navy Marines. [9] Sudan: 2× M88A1 in service with the Sudan People's Armed Forces. [9] Republic of China: 37× M88A1 in service with the Republic of China Army. [9] 14× M88A2 order. [19]
Following the sale of the Aeromax/Louisville and Cargo heavy-truck ranges to Freightliner in 1997, these became the largest vehicles produced by Ford in North America. Following the 1999 split of the F-Series into light- and heavy-duty vehicles, medium-duty trucks became part of the Super Duty range.
M246 medium wrecker tractor truck. The M246, with an extra long wheelbase, was a wrecker with a fifth wheel mounted behind the boom. This let the truck perform wrecker duties and to load and tow semi trailers. All had a front and rear winch. Oversize 12.00×20 were used, this was the only model to have this size.
The Caterpillar design did well in testing, and in 1960, the company was awarded a multimillion-dollar contract for developing eight 8-short-ton (7.3 t) cargo trucks, delivered in 1961 and 1962, as well as two 10-short-ton (9.1 t) wreckers and two 2,500-US-gallon (9,500 L; 2,100 imp gal) tankers in 1962.
The GMC Brigadier (also known as Chevrolet Bruin) is a series of heavy-duty (Class 7-8) trucks that were assembled by the GMC Truck and Coach Division of General Motors.The second generation of the H/J-series heavy-duty conventionals, [1] the Brigadier was produced from 1978 to late 1989, as a WhiteGMC for the last year and a half.