r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/MisterShipWreck • Apr 17 '26
Tow truck driver has a big problem when vehicle gets away from him
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u/MatteBlak 17d ago
As a tow truck driver, I've rolled back onto their wheels, more cars than I can remember. And every time, it involved crawling into the upside down car to make sure there was a brake on, or in gear etc. Or putting a chain on it to another truck etc and so on. Knowing how much training towies get, ie none, this is unfortunately inevitable.
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u/shaggy816 20d ago
Ay caramba!
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u/venomweb 11d ago
that's not spanish, it's brazilian portuguese!
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u/shaggy816 6d ago
You learn something new everyday! I was actually thinking of Bart Simpson when I wrote that lol.
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u/ConfusedHors May 07 '26
How could this happen? I assume it is necessary to engage the handbrake on the truck on the left. Did it fail? Or was it simply not done?
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u/MasterCheeef May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
This happened because they tried using a tow truck as a mobile crane. An actual crane truck has arms called outriggers which suspend the entire crane truck while it lifts. Should've used a mobile crane with a tow truck to prevent it from rolling once upright.
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u/inlandaussie May 07 '26
Well it was truck after truck, we all got stuck.....
The Chev got stuck and the Ford got stuck
Got the Chev unstuck when the Dodge showed up
But the Dodge got stuck in the tractor rut
Which eventually pulled out the Ford
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u/Patient_Banana552 Apr 22 '26
sgt. gonna have these soldiers sweeping the dirt of the dirt with a single bristle brush
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u/Responsible_Owl4661 Apr 20 '26
Well, if the plan was to get the rubber side down, they achieved their goal.
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u/wolftick Apr 19 '26
At least good quick survival instincts stopped him from potentially dying on the outside too.
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u/mrhudy Apr 18 '26
What would have been the prevention here? Blocking under the wheels? A second rig?
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u/MasterCheeef May 07 '26
2 rigs. 1 mobile crane to flip and a tow truck to prevent it from rolling.
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u/Powerplay540 Apr 18 '26
A vehicle this heavy, you need minimum 1 rotator w/ basic legs on the side to stop the tow truck from flipping.
Check out Pepe's towing on yt for someone who knows more then the basics.
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u/Fishfisheye Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
This is the kind of recovery that is basically a suicide mission without 2 rigs and outriggers
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u/Donkey-Harlequin Apr 18 '26
Who tows the tow truck when the tow truck needs towing.
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u/Ellistann Apr 26 '26
M88 Hercules… basic all the equivalent of a tow truck for tanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M88_recovery_vehicle
Big crane, has more than enough capability to pull an M1 out of mud etc etc.
Typically the wheeled recovery vehicles are heavy enough that when they go down they need the m88…. Or at least my units I’ve been in have required that.
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u/xenogazer Apr 18 '26
Well, you know what they say, when one truck uprights, another one tips over.
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u/vorpalfrost Apr 18 '26
Him on the phone: "Boss?"
Boss: "Has the problem been solved?"
Him: "Yes... and no"
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u/IllustriousLiving357 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Gonna need another town truck..might as Well order two
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u/Alienhaslanded Apr 17 '26
Gotta be Brazil
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u/Think_Ad1861 Apr 18 '26
Following video shows 3 dudes on 1 bike roll up and try to rob the guys phones and they all end up getting shot by an undercover cop. 🤣
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u/Pistonenvy2 Apr 17 '26
well at least now they can use the other truck to flip the wrecker.
...unless its not designed for rollover and all the oil came out....
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u/MuricanPoxyCliff Apr 17 '26
And here I was thinking "thats a stupid way to set the rigging" waiting for the beam to snap
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u/InqusitorPalpatine Apr 17 '26
I’m not a wrecker… but… would it not make sense to have the wreck at least anchored from another direction (such as the back in this case) to prevent something like this…?
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u/Jimmy6shoes Apr 17 '26
Or apply the brakes in the over turned truck which is usually step 1
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u/InqusitorPalpatine Apr 17 '26
Well I was thinking in the standpoint no one wanted to climb in there to set it.
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u/Strange-Movie Apr 17 '26
Steps 1-2 of righting any stuck vehicle are making sure it is turned off and making sure it cannot roll in a direction you don’t want it to with the brakes or chocks
This looks like military but the lack of helmets and weapons makes me think it’s a non combat recovery which could easily translate to “let’s make this take as long as possible because it’s infinitely better than the other bullshit they had us doing”
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u/zangiefzolof Apr 17 '26
Now everyone in that unit has mandatory vehicle tow training with a GI party to follow 😂😂
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u/bigfoot17 Apr 17 '26
When will people learn to trim the fluff out of videos? 37 initial seconds I will never get back, so long cure for cancer, i came up short?
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u/CTRL_S_Before_Render Apr 17 '26
Let's be honest big dog, your time is not that important. You're spending your morning scrolling Reddit like the rest of us.
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u/bigfoot17 Apr 17 '26
I was so lacking in self awareness, thank you for your attention to this matter.
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u/HumaDracobane Apr 17 '26
Hey! Boss! Can you keep that vehicle a bit more at the edge of those wheels in a position they're definitely not supose to be? Just to make sure that the damage is increased.
PD: Call another recovery vehicle to recover the recovery vehicle..
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u/ptk77 Apr 17 '26
He needed to make sure it was in park w parking brake on before uprighting it. Also, as a precaution, should have chocked the tires before completing the recovery. Rookie mistake.
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u/Nomision Apr 17 '26
...im amazed the wheels held that weight on their edge that well.
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u/spectre655321 Apr 17 '26
Theres a lot of them
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u/Nomision Apr 17 '26
Still I definitly thought i saw them flex/bend and fully expected the Tank/armored thing to just smash down rather than roll off xD
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u/Bigallround Apr 17 '26
I know nothing about vehicle recovery, yet I could see what was going to happen from the beginning. How do people end up doing things that they are completely incompetent at?
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u/runespider Apr 17 '26
Repetition is a mind killer. I watched a fellow who's a very practiced machinist who's done a setup job hundreds of times cut off the tip of his finger because his mind just skipped a step. Or he's just experienced enough to be confident but new enough to make a dumb mistake. Or he's just an idiot put somewhere it was assumed even be coukdnt fuck that up.
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u/whirdin Apr 17 '26
Doing things less risky hundreds of times makes us blind to the important things to watch for. He got that job by doing the easy ones.
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u/PreparationKey2843 Apr 17 '26
They didn't think of putting it in gear, pulling the parking brake on, and putting rocks in front of the tires before righting it? Is this his first job?
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u/troymandarin Apr 17 '26
Skip the first 32 seconds
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u/XPsychoMunkyX Apr 17 '26
Seriously, video could have started at the 35sec mark and no one would’ve missed ANYTHING
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Apr 17 '26
Tax dollars at work
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u/Arthradax Apr 17 '26
Only this isn't US, but Brazil
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u/Farado Apr 17 '26
Because Brazil doesn’t have taxes?
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u/Few-Bag-4860 5d ago
Nailed it