Heavy wrecker working at truck wreck

This is a followup post to the previous post of firemen rescuing two trapped victims in an overturned truck. After the victims were freed and the firefighters left the scene, it was up to the towing and recovery company to flip the truck back on it’s wheels and recover the cargo to cleanup the accident site.

The main truck used was a new, 2014, NRC Sliding Rotator on a Kenworth T800 chassis. The Hillside Towing Company operators were tasked with uprighting the tractor and trailer and then reloading two large steel coils onto another truck.

tractor trailer flipped over with steel coils — This is the scene that they had to work with. Larry Shapiro photo

Now I like big work trucks of any type, so I decided to stick around to get shots of the recovery and to create a video as well. Under the heading of heavy wrecker working at truck wreck, these images will provide a synopsis of the job.

NRC Sliding Rotator at a recovery — The truck is capable of sliding from side to side on the rails. Larry Shapiro photo

workers guide steel coils at a crash site — Though the truck does al the heavy lifting, manpower is till required to assist in building the massive coils. Larry Shapiro photo

NRC Sliding Rotator at a recovery of steel coils — Here the first of two coils is being loaded onto another truck for removal from the crash scene. Larry Shapiro photo

A complete set of images can be viewed at shapirophotography.net