Last week I showed a new flatbed operator who thought he was stuck how to use the bed to push himself out. Basically, the same way you just pushed yours out from under that truck. He was thankful and said he has a lot to learn, and I said we all did at one point.
I’d rather drive around. No point in risking driving into head on traffic without traffic control, especially when people are not going to be paying attention, trying to see what’s going on. Worth the extra few seconds to drive around.
When I was a kid growing up in Wisconsin, they had some people, probably volunteers, that would come to accident scenes and clean up everything. Many times they were there before the cops or anyone else.
As far as wheels goes I know we can’t release anything that is bolted to the vehicle ie tool box ,light bar , wheels etc. however I can tell them I can take it to your house you just have to pay the fees up front for the rotation call which is everything minus storage fees. Once it’s at there house they take what they want we have no control
Dustin, ive got a good one for you, the neighbor across the street has a 90 something GMC Yukon, last week he got in an accident, it knocked the right rear wheel off, so it was sitting on the backing plate, yesterday a tow truck came to take it for estimates, the two drivers while they were pulling it the backing plate got caught on the edge of the bed, but instead of lifting it and placing a block under it they tried to force it, ended up destroying the rear bumper and snapping their Y bridle
I've tried to use the wooden block to slide the vehicle around on the bed. This doesn't work for me. The block digs into the bed and then the vehicle rolls over the block. I have to use skates to do what you do with a wooden block
I think he was talking about the last part where you dropped off the PU. You pushed your tow truck forward and your back wheels came slightly off the ground.
I’m actually getting the same wheels but in black for my truck and I’m getting mud tires and I might get toolbox But I think I should go with a bed cover just cause I don’t want my stuff to get stolen but if I do decide that I want to buy a tool box for my truck I’ma make sure my stuff does not get stolen and I might be buying a dodge ram 1500 longhorn or ford f150 5.0 lariat or king ranch
Dustin, would the tires be part of the truck i never heard anyone taking the tires off, i wouldn't want the vehicles owners to hang around asking questions, it be harder to have people hanging around getting in the way
You need a mobile home tie down in the dirt to anchor to pull that pickup off there, that way you could just pull up and drag her off, that sucks having all the wheels locked up.
It’s definitely totaled. These new aluminum trucks aren’t designed to live through a hard impact like that. They’re designed to keep the occupants safe
@@Towtruck_Dustin makes sense. These days it seems like even fender benders end up being totaled. Nothing like when I was in auto body repair. We fixed cars that most would have thought were totaled. Not the way they make vehicles now days. If you can’t simply replace a fender and bumper they total them.
@@dlsimesthe issue with front ends all depends if structural stuff gets damaged. I have a 1998 GMC that a farmer wrecked in. A slow impact on the front in the ditch but the fenders were crumpled and the bumper and stuff destroyed. Hood is still good I think. Well all the stuff damaged is all bolted on and not structural.
If the truck has a loan, then wouldn't the bank own the truck. Would they have to put tires back on the truck, and wouldn't that be sort of theft if not replaced. I would never let anyone take tires off a truck, until the bank or the insurance company puts it in writing, always protect yourself.
@@Towtruck_Dustinwhen u ask the cop which vehicle u r picking up,that duffis of a cop does actually have his gun in his hand pointing it at the truck and right before that before he shakes your hand he puts it on his clip board
It messes with my mind the amount of plastic "junk" that a wreck can cause. I had a pretty minor one - or so I thought that did zero body damage but wiped out the grill (and bumper) and all the plastic claptrap behind it. Two full shovels full of plastic junk and the insurance company totaled my spotless F350 CCLB diesel. Had it not had all that expensive plastic crapola that my older F350s, a salvage yard trip and 2-3 hundred bucks (i.e like my '79 F350 that someone backed into with a box truck and smashed the grille and radiator frame).
It’s part of the crumple zone to help keep the passenger compartment intact so that way most of the energy goes into the body parts instead of the passenger compartment
If the owner of the White truck that you towed watches this. Just want to know what you put on your tires to make them so shiny? Maybe it was from a detailer.
Noticed it...must of been a gun belonging to a driver? The officer has two holstered weapons on him that you can see at the time he is holding that gun in his right hand. A driver must of asked to remove the weapon from the crashed vehicle before it was towed. Officer removed it for him, then for whatever reason got distracted and walked around with it and even was using it to point at the vehicles.
Rule of thumb, you never drive a customers vehicle unless absolutely necessary. Thats especially true if it’s wrecked. Never know what’s wrong with it. On top of that, it was said many times in the video, the truck would t run, and the brake was locked up.
My friend from football on September 30th 2023 got into a wreck at night time before I went to the state fair on October 2nd and he told me a guy ran a red light and hit his truck my friend was so upset cause he loved his truck and his truck was lifted and his truck was totaled and during school he had to drive his mom blue jeep wrangler till he gets a new truck and a month after his wreck he brought a black jeep wrangler rubicon and after he brought it he added a lift kit and bigger wheels and tires and during the summer we had performance course to get ready for football season and my friend that plays d line with me was talking to my other friend at performance course and a guy in a truck ran a red light and hit my friend truck from d line and the insurance totaled it and his dad brought a newer ram 1500 and than my friend brought a used ford f150 king ranch and my friend added a 6 inch lift kit and bigger wheels and tires and B&W trailer hitch
one is a few years newer. the one that took the front end impact (the one he picked up) is new then the one that took the side hit on the front fender is older. i say the one he picked up was maybe a 2020 or newer and the other maybe around 2010 2012 area
These exist because they keep people from getting into secondary crashes with other cars or things like rolling down a hill or off a cliff after a collision. They have good reason for being there.
First sad, but the car the car accident I don’t know what to tell you, but y’all have a new car. I have do it for me. Don’t talk to me. Don’t talk to me. Don’t touch me talk to me. Don’t touch me.
Older vehicles were so well built that a fender bender could be fixed with a sledgehammer, toilet plunger & some bonds. Modern vehicles were designed with claims adjusters & body shops in mind!
Manufacturers design vehicles for themselves. It's way too costly to repair totals for most people so it becomes scrap. It's designed so you don't either have you cabin crushed or you become a skin bag of organ mush
Aluminum is still better ith safety, rust, and weight. The older ones do much worse in a crash, steel might look like it held up better but it really didn't and also its more expensive to repair.
@@averagetownplayer1543 aluminum is MUCH more expensive to repair. Also steel does much better against rust compared to aluminum. Just look at new Chevy ram and ford trucks.
@@chase_t6244 aluminum literally doesn't rust so how can steel hold up better to rust against a metal that can't rust? Ever seen a rusty aluminum soda can on the beach?
@@gabesmath105 thats not wierd wdym. it just means u married a woman who already had a son so they become your stepson. it just means you are not DNA related
New vehicles are made to absorb the energy to protect the passengers and drivers. The new F-150 is top of its class in these ratings. There is countless tests you can find here on TH-cam of them comparing the injuries that would happen in new cars vs old. Most old cars will hold up better "sometimes", but the driver and passenger is more likely to be hurt or killed. It depends on what is more important to you. If its more important to save a car than yourself or your passengers then buy something older. If you want yourself, your wife or kids to be unharmed in a moderate to major collision then newer vehicles are much better. I can also attest to this from doing this same type of crash clean up and being in 5 car accidents myself. I would drive myself and anyone I cared about in a newer F-150 before anything old. I've seen countless people injured and killed in collisions with older cars and trucks. Even when the older vehicle wasn't that badly damaged.
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Last week I showed a new flatbed operator who thought he was stuck how to use the bed to push himself out. Basically, the same way you just pushed yours out from under that truck. He was thankful and said he has a lot to learn, and I said we all did at one point.
Yep. Walking the truck is useful in many situations lol
Nice wheels on that ford.
A professional at work, always enjoyable to watch, thanks Dustin!
Thanks for watching!
Glad you get along with the other tow companies dustan. Another fine recovery. Stay safe. Give stich a treat & pat from me. 😊
Another Great Recovery. ❤ all the new camera angles👍🏼🏁🏁
You got this! Good at your profession
Thank You!
Thank you Dustin. This old lady had been learning a lot from you! 😊
Thanks for watching! Glad you’re enjoying the content!
He could have just told you go around in opposite lane. You didn't have to back up. Just my opinion ! I always say work smarter not harder.
Everyone says that 😆
He would have had to back up either way
I’d rather drive around. No point in risking driving into head on traffic without traffic control, especially when people are not going to be paying attention, trying to see what’s going on.
Worth the extra few seconds to drive around.
Probably better to not be driving into oncoming without warning, I’d have rather went around through the parking lot myself.
Eat a mayonnaise sandwich 🥪 and stand in the corner
Pretty amazing both those F150s hit in the front and no leaking fluids.
It was a glancing hit, not head on, which helped I guess.
@@Towtruck_Dustin Hey do you ever get to see any cam footage of the wrecks you recover?
Awesome! I'm going to watch this tonight
Mr Dustin Thanks for sharing and stay safe
Thanks for watching!
Профессиональная загрузка, профессиональная работа, всё по красоте.
Thank You!
Easy peasy recovery! 😊
nice rims on the new F150.
When I was a kid growing up in Wisconsin, they had some people, probably volunteers, that would come to accident scenes and clean up everything. Many times they were there before the cops or anyone else.
Yeah that doesn’t happen here
As far as wheels goes I know we can’t release anything that is bolted to the vehicle ie tool box ,light bar , wheels etc. however I can tell them I can take it to your house you just have to pay the fees up front for the rotation call which is everything minus storage fees. Once it’s at there house they take what they want we have no control
Yes
I think on these newer fords with the post crash braking, if you cycle the key it might bring it out of it.
There’s a hidden button that turns it off. I’m not taking the time on a wrecked truck to find it and do all that on an active accident scene.
aren't the new ones designed to crumple and fall apart, rather than transfer the impact energy into the passenger compartment?
All cars passed like the 90s are but they’ve been getting safer and safer so correct it looks bad but it’s to keep the passengers safe
@@qwertypoiuyt1 Yes. and F-150s are at the top of these ratings. Better to sacrifice a vehicle than the life of yourself or a passenger.
That makes an F-300 right?😅
Only if they get stuck together 😂
F²-300
Hell, I’ll ask for my tires back too😅
It's interesting, I live in Texas, and the DPS vehicles around here don't have the grill gourds, never have.
Must be a Houston thing because of all the police chases or maybe because it’s rural and to stop damage from deer strikes.
@@Towtruck_DustinI’m in San Antonio and they’ve always had guards
Dustin, ive got a good one for you, the neighbor across the street has a 90 something GMC Yukon, last week he got in an accident, it knocked the right rear wheel off, so it was sitting on the backing plate, yesterday a tow truck came to take it for estimates, the two drivers while they were pulling it the backing plate got caught on the edge of the bed, but instead of lifting it and placing a block under it they tried to force it, ended up destroying the rear bumper and snapping their Y bridle
Wow!! Sounds like they needed some remedial training.
@@Towtruck_Dustin common sense would have worked too
I've tried to use the wooden block to slide the vehicle around on the bed. This doesn't work for me. The block digs into the bed and then the vehicle rolls over the block. I have to use skates to do what you do with a wooden block
Is it because my truck has an aluminum bed?
Yeah sounds like the bed surface grips the block too much. This is why I like steel decks.
@@Towtruck_Dustin company I work for has this thing where they insist on aluminum decks
Great video ! How did you come The idea of lifting the truck ?
Lifting it?
To make him get up and move forward With the tray @@Towtruck_Dustin
I think he was talking about the last part where you dropped off the PU. You pushed your tow truck forward and your back wheels came slightly off the ground.
Oh walking the truck? That’s a common practice for unloading when something won’t roll. Of course there are other ways. But this is my preferred way.
And how the idea came about ?@@Towtruck_Dustin
As always, you were a pro!! 👍👍
Thank You!
I’m actually getting the same wheels but in black for my truck and I’m getting mud tires and I might get toolbox But I think I should go with a bed cover just cause I don’t want my stuff to get stolen but if I do decide that I want to buy a tool box for my truck I’ma make sure my stuff does not get stolen and I might be buying a dodge ram 1500 longhorn or ford f150 5.0 lariat or king ranch
Dustin, would the tires be part of the truck i never heard anyone taking the tires off, i wouldn't want the vehicles owners to hang around asking questions, it be harder to have people hanging around getting in the way
I see rigs without tires at
Insurance auctions, Ha🤪
It’s common to have want their custom items off a vehicle. These things cost a lot of money
@@Towtruck_Dustin i understand that just heard differant heard from other towers on TH-cam that taking parts from vehicles are not allowed
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WHO DOES A RECOVERY. IN FLIP FLOPS ⁉️
You’d be surprised.
Thanks for another great video!
Thanks for watching!
truck look like it might still run not as bad as i thought
You need a mobile home tie down in the dirt to anchor to pull that pickup off there, that way you could just pull up and drag her off, that sucks having all the wheels locked up.
Seems that would be a lot extra work than just doing what I did.
Great video as always
Thank You!
Looks like everyone is ok. He might be surprised, might not be totaled.
It’s definitely totaled. These new aluminum trucks aren’t designed to live through a hard impact like that. They’re designed to keep the occupants safe
@@Towtruck_Dustin makes sense. These days it seems like even fender benders end up being totaled. Nothing like when I was in auto body repair. We fixed cars that most would have thought were totaled. Not the way they make vehicles now days. If you can’t simply replace a fender and bumper they total them.
@@dlsimesthe issue with front ends all depends if structural stuff gets damaged. I have a 1998 GMC that a farmer wrecked in. A slow impact on the front in the ditch but the fenders were crumpled and the bumper and stuff destroyed. Hood is still good I think. Well all the stuff damaged is all bolted on and not structural.
do you ever get to see footage of the crash?
Very rarely.
@@Towtruck_Dustin oh
total... bro in czech rep. we fix car like this and sell it with titel .. second owner" like new
I’m sure that’ll be its next life.
I've never had anyone ask if they can take the wheels off a vehicle
Happens all the time. Pay big money for a set of wheels and you’ll want them back. I’ve done it before on one of my vehicles after an accident.
I Have Those Same Fuel Wheels On My 20 Raptor
Well, that's unfortunate
Another Great Video Dustin! ? and u dont have to answer but do u have a kneck injury? And i hope no one get upset for me asking.
I do. From birth.
Hope u don’t mind
Me asking.
If the truck has a loan, then wouldn't the bank own the truck. Would they have to put tires back on the truck, and wouldn't that be sort of theft if not replaced. I would never let anyone take tires off a truck, until the bank or the insurance company puts it in writing, always protect yourself.
What the...? Does that trooper always use a pistol as a pointing device?! 🤣
I never saw anyone point a gun?
@@Towtruck_Dustin @3:20 he had what looks like a holstered pistol in his right hand.
@@Towtruck_Dustinwhen u ask the cop which vehicle u r picking up,that duffis of a cop does actually have his gun in his hand pointing it at the truck and right before that before he shakes your hand he puts it on his clip board
great job and video
Thank You!
@@Towtruck_Dustin you are welcome
It messes with my mind the amount of plastic "junk" that a wreck can cause. I had a pretty minor one - or so I thought that did zero body damage but wiped out the grill (and bumper) and all the plastic claptrap behind it. Two full shovels full of plastic junk and the insurance company totaled my spotless F350 CCLB diesel. Had it not had all that expensive plastic crapola that my older F350s, a salvage yard trip and 2-3 hundred bucks (i.e like my '79 F350 that someone backed into with a box truck and smashed the grille and radiator frame).
It’s part of the crumple zone to help keep the passenger compartment intact so that way most of the energy goes into the body parts instead of the passenger compartment
If the owner of the White truck that you towed watches this. Just want to know what you put on your tires to make them so shiny? Maybe it was from a detailer.
Will be just tyre shine of some sort
Any off the shelf tire shine should do it
That’s my truck I had just washed it😂
@@hunteronryan2275dang did you at least get your tool box and your wheels and tires off your truck
@@hunteronryan2275did you get new truck after your insurance total your old one
i guess I'm getting old, when we saw the trucks I said, "which one is supposed to be the old one, they both are new?"
Exactly!!!👍
Keep up the good work
Thank You!
bro if i got into a crash in my ford truck and incounterd him i would just pull the radio out so i could have my own homemade stereo.
WOW that hit hard 😮👍👍👍👍👍😊
Where’s the back up camera
Mounted on the headache rack on the bed.
New vs old? They both look new to me.
The truck Dustin towed is a 21-23 f150. The older one is atleast 10 yrs old, 2014 and below generation.
Exactly 👆🏻
@@sunnydeng9263still not old, it's older
@@sunnydeng9263still not old, it's older
Juet start the truck up to release the brake
It had plenty of power. Jumping wasn’t the issue.
Great Job 😉
Thank You!
Watched
Thank You!
next time putt the truck in Neutral
The truck was in neutral.
Anyone notice the cop holding the gun?
Most cops are bitches.
Noticed it...must of been a gun belonging to a driver? The officer has two holstered weapons on him that you can see at the time he is holding that gun in his right hand. A driver must of asked to remove the weapon from the crashed vehicle before it was towed. Officer removed it for him, then for whatever reason got distracted and walked around with it and even was using it to point at the vehicles.
Noice. My comment was deleted 😂
@@flight2k5Who keeps u safe
@@pom8130 i keep myself safe. I don’t need the gov to protect me
This has nothing to do with the strength of the old and the weakness of the new. Rather, the difference between them is speed.
Definitely a difference in the new truck and older one. The old one is made out of steel. The new is aluminum. lol
@@Towtruck_Dustinnew one’s a whole lot safer as well.
@@Towtruck_Dustinold one crumples more at higher speeds, a 40 mph crash is the biggest difference between the two.
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Why dont you tow up a car that has airbags depleyd by driving
Rule of thumb, you never drive a customers vehicle unless absolutely necessary. Thats especially true if it’s wrecked. Never know what’s wrong with it.
On top of that, it was said many times in the video, the truck would t run, and the brake was locked up.
My friend from football on September 30th 2023 got into a wreck at night time before I went to the state fair on October 2nd and he told me a guy ran a red light and hit his truck my friend was so upset cause he loved his truck and his truck was lifted and his truck was totaled and during school he had to drive his mom blue jeep wrangler till he gets a new truck and a month after his wreck he brought a black jeep wrangler rubicon and after he brought it he added a lift kit and bigger wheels and tires and during the summer we had performance course to get ready for football season and my friend that plays d line with me was talking to my other friend at performance course and a guy in a truck ran a red light and hit my friend truck from d line and the insurance totaled it and his dad brought a newer ram 1500 and than my friend brought a used ford f150 king ranch and my friend added a 6 inch lift kit and bigger wheels and tires and B&W trailer hitch
Is it really the job of the tow truck operator to remove all the debris that had broken off the truck?
Yep. That’s why we’re doing the clean up.
They would have the road shutdown all day if they had to wait for someone else. Only minutes if we do it.
These are both new trucks btw wtf
one is a few years newer. the one that took the front end impact (the one he picked up) is new then the one that took the side hit on the front fender is older. i say the one he picked up was maybe a 2020 or newer and the other maybe around 2010 2012 area
definitely not
Lmao the older one is a 12th gen f150 which came out for the 2009 model year how the actual fuck is that new?
The other one looks like an early 2010s model
This automatic emergency break bullshit is a joke
When it works, you'll thank it... saved my ass once!
These exist because they keep people from getting into secondary crashes with other cars or things like rolling down a hill or off a cliff after a collision. They have good reason for being there.
First sad, but the car the car accident I don’t know what to tell you, but y’all have a new car. I have do it for me. Don’t talk to me. Don’t talk to me. Don’t touch me talk to me. Don’t touch me.
Este producto es😮
Older vehicles were so well built that a fender bender could be fixed with a sledgehammer, toilet plunger & some bonds. Modern vehicles were designed with claims adjusters & body shops in mind!
Manufacturers design vehicles for themselves. It's way too costly to repair totals for most people so it becomes scrap. It's designed so you don't either have you cabin crushed or you become a skin bag of organ mush
“It’s obviously totaled”
I highly doubt that, by looking at it there’s some light front end damage, maybe 10-15k to repair.
Definitely totaled. Doesn’t take much on those aluminum trucks.
All the airbags are deployed
My grandma had a minor fender bender and it cost $1100 just for a headlight and a new bumper
10 grand is not light. lol.
90% sure frame is bent which is an automatic total
Look how much better the old steel f150 held up compared to the new aluminum f150.
Aluminum is still better ith safety, rust, and weight. The older ones do much worse in a crash, steel might look like it held up better but it really didn't and also its more expensive to repair.
@@averagetownplayer1543I’ve been told that aluminum is more expensive to repair!?
@@averagetownplayer1543 aluminum is MUCH more expensive to repair. Also steel does much better against rust compared to aluminum. Just look at new Chevy ram and ford trucks.
@@chase_t6244 aluminum literally doesn't rust so how can steel hold up better to rust against a metal that can't rust? Ever seen a rusty aluminum soda can on the beach?
Do you have kids yes or no
Yes, a stepson.
WTF???
@@gabesmath105 thats not wierd wdym. it just means u married a woman who already had a son so they become your stepson. it just means you are not DNA related
@@shine2d226 i meant "none of your business"
@@gabesmath105its not that weird, especially if the creator commented back.
A truck isn’t suppose to look fancy bro
That’s a matter of opinion. Every vehicle I own is customized. Life’s too short to drive a boring vehicle.
Old truck isnt totaled new is. Hate how cheaply made the make them now
New vehicles are made to absorb the energy to protect the passengers and drivers.
The new F-150 is top of its class in these ratings.
There is countless tests you can find here on TH-cam of them comparing the injuries that would happen in new cars vs old. Most old cars will hold up better "sometimes", but the driver and passenger is more likely to be hurt or killed.
It depends on what is more important to you.
If its more important to save a car than yourself or your passengers then buy something older.
If you want yourself, your wife or kids to be unharmed in a moderate to major collision then newer vehicles are much better.
I can also attest to this from doing this same type of crash clean up and being in 5 car accidents myself.
I would drive myself and anyone I cared about in a newer F-150 before anything old.
I've seen countless people injured and killed in collisions with older cars and trucks.
Even when the older vehicle wasn't that badly damaged.
Junk and Junk
Lol