While at the scene of a technical rescue where a worker became trapped after the trench he was in partially collapsed around him, I photographed these heavy wreckers from Lin Mar Towing that were part of the emergency response. The tow…
Category: big truck photography
Here’s another example of photographing fire trucks with a state capital. This was a film shoot in Madison, WI for Pierce. I had spent the day driving from town to town with a half dozen or so to shoot. Nothing…
Here’s the second article in what will be a series on photographing fire trucks with state capital fire departments. This trip was to Austin Texas for Pierce. It took place several years ago before I switched from film to digital…
Here’s another assignment that I had photographing fire trucks for the E-ONE calendar. I visited the Oklahoma City Fire Department who had recently had several pieces of aerial apparatus refurbished and re-chassied. Oklahoma City is the Capitol of Oklahoma and…
I mentioned recently about a past visit to Chattanooga, Tennessee while I was photographing tow trucks for Miller Industries and for inclusion in my book Tow Trucks in Action. One of my sessions was with Doug Yates of Doug Yates…
While on assignment in Tennessee, I was introduced to Yates Towing and Recovery. The company is owned by one of two brothers, both of which own their own towing and recovery companies. At the time, they had Century rotator heavy…
I’ve had several occasions to play with photographing tow trucks … either for Freightliner, Miller Industries (they build Century, Challenger, Chevron, Vulcan, and Holmes brands), or for a book that I wrote called Tow Trucks in Action. On assignment in Des…
For several years I had the good fortune of being a go-to photographer for Freightliner Trucks, specifically working with vocational trucks (Business Class models). What this meant was that my contact at Freightliner was constantly seeking out different applications or…
Several years ago I attended the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, KY on behalf of Freightliner Trucks. One of my assignments was to create environmental portraiture of several owner/operators with their Freightliner trucks. The conditions were not ideal. An enormous…
I spent several years photographing work trucks for Freightliner. Some assignments were more interesting than others, some more fun, and some just plain lucky. I had the good fortune to be granted access to the field side of Kennedy Airport…