Tow truck

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 transporting one via flatbed to a repair shop or other location.

A tow truck is distinct from a motor carrier that moves multiple new or used vehicles simultaneously in routine transport operations.

History

The tow truck was invented in 1916 by Ernest Holmes, Sr., of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a garage worker inspired after needing blocks, ropes, and six men to pull a car out of a creek. Upon improving his design he began manufacturing them commercially. The International Towing and Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum in his home town displays restored antique wreckers, tools, equipment, and pictorial histories of the industry Holmes created.

Types of towing equipment

Tow Truck (album)

Recorded by Len Milne at Bedside Studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Tow Truck is the third album from The Perpetrators. The follow-up to the 2005's The Gas and The Clutch, it is the first Perpetrators album to feature Chris "MAMA" Bauer on drums (and guitar on his composition, "R.Cowboy," which features J Nowicki on the drumkit) alongside founding members, Nowicki and Ryan Menard. Guest musicians featured on the disc include (original band member) Chris Saywell and Donny Zeuff of the D.Rangers; Sarah Dugas and Andrina Turenne of Madrigaia; Damon Mitchell of Nathan and The New Meanies; Grant Siemens of the Corb Lund Band; Joanna Miller of the Scott Nolan Band; Andrew Neville and Rob Vaarmeyer of the Poor Choices; Alice Ramsay and Billy Merritt.

Track listing