In college in the 60's I drove a tow truck and we had to lie on the ground to hook chains to whatever we could find and sometimes we retrieved flood damaged vehicles and you can imagine what that was like! Good old days, my ass! LOL Really pleased you folks have used your cleverness to make such wonderful rigs. Best of luck!
30 years ago i did repos for a car lot and lender.. The top of the line back then was a snatch master. I could grab a car truck van in just a minute and never get out until i was safe to do so. That was an awesome truck and rig
I am retired now but I remember 40 years ago I started towing with 440 Holms winch chain tow with stick shift and PTO on 74 old Ford truck which by the way had a couple of bullet holes on the roof which was sealed by duct tape ! We have come a long way and it is so easy and fun to tow . Keep up the good work and GOD bless .
I got towed once, I didn’t obey the signs. I look hard every time since. TI’ll never forget that $160 lesson. There’s no telling how much grief/$$ I’ve saved myself by being aware since.
You are right they made it look nice and simple to back up to it so after they had it backed up they ran the video of them pulling away from it backwards and edited it
We had a Vulcan cradle snatcher in '74. Very innovative for the day with the wheel lift, we still had steel bumpers then. Once you got used to it you could do amazing thins no other wrecker could. The only problem was everything on the back was electric and did not care for road salt.
he works for u win towing out of Clinton Township Michigan the technique worked perfect it was on a private property impound Thank You Miller for making the video very helpful and made money tonight was so excited to try it we forgot to video it but we will have to video it next time
This is awesome!! But there are some cars parked so close, that this setup still won't pull, because the cars are parked so close both front and back bumper are force together given no room to pull out.
i operate one these bad boys :) comes in handy in tight spots and when you need to move vehicles around quick. have pulled FWD vehicles from the rear wheels a few times.
I've seen some of these videos when the person realized their car is being repoed they'll get in the car and once it's hooked up to the tow truck they can actually drive off from the truck damaging their vehicle and the tow truck can this happen with this type of tow truck?
I do the 90 degree stuff every once in a while with my Dynamic 601, but we don't have a lot of parallel parking in this area so more common is a 45-60% hook up if I can't get a straight shot. Have never seen that behind-the-wheels connection before and certainly have never tried it. Will keep it in mind though.
As those at miller industries heard some feedback from tow truck operators tasked on performing a repo when the feedback was used to redesign the Vulcan 812 when the tow truck operators hook up the default vehicle long before the owners realize they'll been robbed.
I watch gtoger's TH-cam channel in Dallas Texas where cars parking illegally are towed. I wondered exactly how the autoloader worked. I really know how to use/waste my time. This video really helped me understand the equipment. Thanks Miller Industries. I like your heavy duty tow trucks too.
wait... what??? what kept the van from rolling off the stinger while being pulled from the back while in park? can you do that if the vehicle doesnt have the ebrake on?
I have a Chevy with a Vulcan 810 and earlier this evening I extended my boom and now it won't retract have you ever dealt with this kind of problem before
All I can think about is the front end of the truck and how much weight you could pull Notice how much of a space there is between the front tires wheel well ?
No transmission dammage, doesn't move far enough to cause any harm, maybe a slightly more worn out spot on the tires... It's a common repo tool called dragging.. As long as you don't run down the road with it dragging you don't cause any damage
How do they handle Repoing 4WD trucks where all 4 wheels are locked up? I realize a truck this size couldn't tow a big truck anyway, but forgetting that how do they handle it? Do they just get the key and drive it away?
My guess is they either dolly it or have a flatbed nearby. This unit would be used to simply move the repo into position so the flatbed could line up and drag on (again, probably with dollies).
If you listen to the narrator, he mentions this is for demo only. In a real life hookup, we use straps over the wheels and tow lights for safety. The guys not interested in safety will just hook and go. Insane.
I'll assume the Vulcan is controlled same as my Dynamic. There are four 3-position momentary switches [ON-OFF-ON; default position is in the middle (off)]. The functions are FOLD/UNFOLD, UP/DOWN, IN/OUT (or EXTEND/RETRACT), and OPEN/CLOSE (for the L-arms/forks). You do it a few hundred times and you don't have to look at the switches anymore.
With a flatbed or dollies. Those four little mini tires you see on top of almost every tow truck; they can be used to pick up the back axle of a car. So all four wheels are off the ground.
Hay le daño la trasmisió cuando la halo por atras y estaba en parking, la goma se vio claro qu e estaba trancada. Que se hace en esos casos para no hacerle daños mecanicos al la transmisión.
What about an all wheel drive car like Subarus and BMW x drive? Can I drag one out of the way to put the dolly under it. With no damage? More impound less repo?
After using old-school sling tech to repo and transport cars, this vehicle would have been sweet to have many, many times over with this towing capability. Oh, and for the bad-asses out there: Shooting and killing tow truck drivers, no matter how you feel about them, is still considered 1st degree homicide. Us shooting back and killing you in self defense is, well, self-defense. Calm your tits and park properly and/or pay your car payment on time and you won't have any issues, right? Right.
Why is it that no-one in the USA seems to use the parking brake? I always leave my car in gear and with the parking brake engaged. Surely that would scupper a tow truck of this sort?
ChrisHallett83 Yeah I saw that, but on a ton of other videos I've seen vehicles being lifted at the front and then towed away. I find it surprising that it seems very common to not use the parking break for lots of Americans. I guess it ranks up there with people who don't lock their doors either.
Mark Robinson Also not all parking brakes grab hard enough to lock up the rear wheels. Regaurdless they are getting your car if they want it. Something some where will give.
Mark Robinson Parking brakes usually only work on the drive tires. Like this van is front wheel drive. So the parking brake will only lock the front tires. Rear wheel will lock the rear tires. With a automatic transmission it's not really necessary to apply the parking brake on level ground. Granted the only thing keeping the car from rolling is a small pin. I only use mine if im on a incline.
I am not familiar with the car/model shown at 2:40, but I am asking myself, if it has parking brakes applied to the front wheels, shouldn't the rear wheels lock as well when the gearbox is in parking mode? I don't know how exactly your cars work there, but I am pretty sure those tow trucks wouldn't be able to work in europe, where more than 90% of the cars have FWD and parking brake applied to the rear wheels. thats why the cars get picked up instead of being towed away
While parking pins are not designed for this, any parking pin that would fail is something a car company doesn't want to defend in court. Parking pins are not unbreakable, but they are incredibly strong. If you've seen cop chases, you know what a wheel will do as it disintegrates. And you probably know that the coefficient of sliding friction is less than starting friction. In other words, the longer it is pulled, the stress on the pin actually goes down, not up.
they make sure they don't harm an oil pan, but pulling a van by the drive wheels while it is NOT IN NEUTRAL is ok? Doesn't it potentially ruin the transmission or other parts?
It doesn't ruin the transmission if a car is front wheel drive then you can lift it by the front and the back wheel's roll freely. I'm a tow truck driver that's how I know.
Some of the self-loaders have adapters. I have them for my Dynamic, but stopped even trying to use. The loading is a serious PITA and a lot of bikes now have tires that are too wide for it.
Wonder if that cab door can stop a .45 or .357 or .50? I saw a repo man get his just reward once. Needless to say he never repo'd another vehicle again.
nice but not empress,there wasn't no 5th wheel hook up no trailer hook up,and looking at the with of the bar hooking up to a duel would be dangerous?might want to go back to the drawing board? ps would like to see a duel repo video,and 90 degree angle was done around 10 yrs ago ,i think from sneaker or someone
when they show the tow truck backing up to the white mini van, and dragging it out of the parking space by the rear with the front wheels dragging, they neglect to mention that the car better have the parking brake on to perform this manuever, or the rear wheels are gonna roll right out of the pans
All the more reason to have your frame kissing the ground, which is pretty badass if you aren't using air. I don't tend to park in places I'd get towed, but I don't approve of this technology for the potential damage to the vehicle (I doubt most operators would check for chassis/sump clearance) and just how easy it would be to steal a car.
the ability of these things to do a parallel parked pickup is badass.
that 90 degree grab feature is absolutely gorgeous.
Legend has it that white van is still getting towed away
Tahoe Joe prolly did this week
Tahoe Joe Love those “Legend has it...” comments. Keep up the great work! 👍 A+++++
In college in the 60's I drove a tow truck and we had to lie on the ground to hook chains to whatever we could find and sometimes we retrieved flood damaged vehicles and you can imagine what that was like! Good old days, my ass! LOL Really pleased you folks have used your cleverness to make such wonderful rigs. Best of luck!
I'm not a tow trucker but DAMNNN that thing is soo cool it makes me want to become a tow truck driver!
30 years ago i did repos for a car lot and lender.. The top of the line back then was a snatch master. I could grab a car truck van in just a minute and never get out until i was safe to do so. That was an awesome truck and rig
I am retired now but I remember 40 years ago I started towing with 440 Holms winch chain tow with stick shift and PTO on 74 old Ford truck which by the way had a couple of bullet holes on the roof which was sealed by duct tape !
We have come a long way and it is so easy and fun to tow .
Keep up the good work and GOD bless .
The narrator has an awesome voice! Perfect for this type of work.
Does it turn you on??
I got towed once, I didn’t obey the signs. I look hard every time since. TI’ll never forget that $160 lesson. There’s no telling how much grief/$$ I’ve saved myself by being aware since.
You are way smarter then most.
If only everyone else had your practical common sense, that's rarer than a golden swines piglets
The driver of that white van can't seem to catch a break....jeeeesh.... ;)
ya he tried all kinds of stuff to deture that repo agent
If he would just pay his payments. Maybe we should start a gofundme. Poor guy 🤣
Watched this 2x - such awesome power to grab-n-go a vehicle. Perfect tool for quick repo's and recovery.
Bullet proof rear window sold separately?
This guy owning the van should really start paying his bill, gets towed like 5 times in this video!
😂😂😂
Hahahahaha
Omg love the sarcasm still my favorite language
Lol
not kidding 😂
3:44, couldn't help but notice traffic driving backwards in the background. xD
You are right they made it look nice and simple to back up to it so after they had it backed up they ran the video of them pulling away from it backwards and edited it
but the guy stopping traffic was normal---anyone know why??
They paid him to act that way.
Echo Tiger mind blown
it was opposite day !
We had a Vulcan cradle snatcher in '74. Very innovative for the day with the wheel lift, we still had steel bumpers then. Once you got used to it you could do amazing thins no other wrecker could. The only problem was everything on the back was electric and did not care for road salt.
he works for u win towing out of Clinton Township Michigan the technique worked perfect it was on a private property impound Thank You Miller for making the video very helpful and made money tonight was so excited to try it we forgot to video it but we will have to video it next time
Don't remember how I got to this section, not in the tow truck business but after watching this I want one of these.
Amazing! well done to the driver for that skill must have practiced a bit.
i recognized a couple of the buildings. Chattanooga Tennessee. and there is a wrecker museum that is quite interesting in Chattanooga.
This is awesome!!
But there are some cars parked so close, that this setup still won't pull, because the cars are parked so close both front and back bumper are force together given no room to pull out.
the 90 degree hook up is impressive.
That's a nice autoloader. Might buy one!
i operate one these bad boys :) comes in handy in tight spots and when you need to move vehicles around quick. have pulled FWD vehicles from the rear wheels a few times.
the tow truck is amazing
I've seen some of these videos when the person realized their car is being repoed they'll get in the car and once it's hooked up to the tow truck they can actually drive off from the truck damaging their vehicle and the tow truck can this happen with this type of tow truck?
I do the 90 degree stuff every once in a while with my Dynamic 601, but we don't have a lot of parallel parking in this area so more common is a 45-60% hook up if I can't get a straight shot. Have never seen that behind-the-wheels connection before and certainly have never tried it. Will keep it in mind though.
As those at miller industries heard some feedback from tow truck operators tasked on performing a repo when the feedback was used to redesign the Vulcan 812 when the tow truck operators hook up the default vehicle long before the owners realize they'll been robbed.
Why am I watching this? ... I got on here 1 hour ago watching a documentary on cruise ships and now I’m watching a repo truck tow a white minivan.🤔
Isaac Kamau I have no idea how I made it to this video either lol
I watch gtoger's TH-cam channel in Dallas Texas where cars parking illegally are towed. I wondered exactly how the autoloader worked. I really know how to use/waste my time. This video really helped me understand the equipment. Thanks Miller Industries. I like your heavy duty tow trucks too.
Your a dude, dude. It's what we do
GToger brought me here don’t know why towing vehicles maybe
Now THAT is Asset recovery!!! I've never had a vehicle towed away like that!
wait... what??? what kept the van from rolling off the stinger while being pulled from the back while in park? can you do that if the vehicle doesnt have the ebrake on?
What if you tow the van from its front wheels but the rear wheels have the handbrake on?
I have a Chevy with a Vulcan 810 and earlier this evening I extended my boom and now it won't retract have you ever dealt with this kind of problem before
All I can think about is the front end of the truck and how much weight you could pull Notice how much of a space there is between the front tires wheel well ?
i wanna become a repo guy now
Great bit of kit for all you car theirs out there.
That driver is a beast
Cool you finally did what jerrdan had already accomplished but hey to each is his own
No transmission dammage, doesn't move far enough to cause any harm, maybe a slightly more worn out spot on the tires... It's a common repo tool called dragging.. As long as you don't run down the road with it dragging you don't cause any damage
How do they handle Repoing 4WD trucks where all 4 wheels are locked up? I realize a truck this size couldn't tow a big truck anyway, but forgetting that how do they handle it? Do they just get the key and drive it away?
My guess is they either dolly it or have a flatbed nearby. This unit would be used to simply move the repo into position so the flatbed could line up and drag on (again, probably with dollies).
Um, what's wrong with your commercial? It goes to 0:25 seconds and the skips clear to the end?
GANKED!
I gotta get one of these for my car stealing side business
That is awesome, I want one now. Our repo truck had a Dynamic but my carrier has a Vulcan wheel lift.
I could achieve the same versatility with an old style wrecker. It just took more preparation. These new systems can really hook and book!🚔
Don’t they need to tie up the tires to the bars? What if it rolls off?
If you listen to the narrator, he mentions this is for demo only. In a real life hookup, we use straps over the wheels and tow lights for safety. The guys not interested in safety will just hook and go. Insane.
Nice innovation for towing
my boy used this to steel cars and chop them, THANKS MILLER INDUSTRIES
Im not even a repo man. Those things just look menacing. Forget Truck Nutz I want one of these instead!
Could you add a video on what the inside of the towing vehicle looks like, the switches, etc. and an instructional video on how it operates?
I'll assume the Vulcan is controlled same as my Dynamic. There are four 3-position momentary switches [ON-OFF-ON; default position is in the middle (off)]. The functions are FOLD/UNFOLD, UP/DOWN, IN/OUT (or EXTEND/RETRACT), and OPEN/CLOSE (for the L-arms/forks). You do it a few hundred times and you don't have to look at the switches anymore.
How do tow manufacturers deal with big SUVs when the electronic emergency brakes on?
With a flatbed or dollies.
Those four little mini tires you see on top of almost every tow truck; they can be used to pick up the back axle of a car. So all four wheels are off the ground.
And parking brake?
hadraplana 2:41
hadraplana, we would unlock your car for a small additional fee and release the parking brake. No problem.
James Faison that's actually illegal
does this lift come a with bulletproof cab?
What do they do if the handbrake/parkingbrake is on?
use dollies to tow it or get in it and disable the parking brake. There is training for all this kind of stuff
No one uses the handbrake in the US?
That's a beautiful tow truck, right there.
What is the size of the crossbar ? thickness ? width ?
nobody pulls the hand brake when parking?
I reaized they werent selling a Repo unit.
But they were offering tips in how Chrysler Vans.. can do burnouts in reverse!
Why not use park and handbrake to lock all 4 wheels?
Hay le daño la trasmisió cuando la halo por atras y estaba en parking, la goma se vio claro qu e estaba trancada. Que se hace en esos casos para no hacerle daños mecanicos al la transmisión.
What about an all wheel drive car like Subarus and BMW x drive? Can I drag one out of the way to put the dolly under it. With no damage? More impound less repo?
Scates, then dolly it
Nice. Wheelifts have come a long way since my first one in mid 80s. Lol
Wheel lift trucks are the bomb.
After using old-school sling tech to repo and transport cars, this vehicle would have been sweet to have many, many times over with this towing capability. Oh, and for the bad-asses out there: Shooting and killing tow truck drivers, no matter how you feel about them, is still considered 1st degree homicide. Us shooting back and killing you in self defense is, well, self-defense. Calm your tits and park properly and/or pay your car payment on time and you won't have any issues, right? Right.
Yep no issues, just like Lincoln Towing in Chicago. www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/towing-companies-worst/Content?oid=37062911
Thiefs use these too
You say that like it's common for tow drivers to get shot and killed..... More plumbers get shot and killed.
trespass towing is my favorite
wat if the car is AWD and it's on parked with it's Emergency brakes on?
Does it have bulletproof windows too?
That was just showing the new equipment that was not actual tow or in pound desmostration only if you read the info
Why is it that no-one in the USA seems to use the parking brake?
I always leave my car in gear and with the parking brake engaged. Surely that would scupper a tow truck of this sort?
ChrisHallett83
Yeah I saw that, but on a ton of other videos I've seen vehicles being lifted at the front and then towed away.
I find it surprising that it seems very common to not use the parking break for lots of Americans.
I guess it ranks up there with people who don't lock their doors either.
it's because a lot of people here in the USA drive automatics and never feel the need to use their parking brake because of "park"
Mark Robinson Also not all parking brakes grab hard enough to lock up the rear wheels. Regaurdless they are getting your car if they want it. Something some where will give.
Mark Robinson Parking brakes usually only work on the drive tires. Like this van is front wheel drive. So the parking brake will only lock the front tires. Rear wheel will lock the rear tires. With a automatic transmission it's not really necessary to apply the parking brake on level ground. Granted the only thing keeping the car from rolling is a small pin. I only use mine if im on a incline.
cody111495 all parking brakes lock up rear tires, check it out follow the cables
I am not familiar with the car/model shown at 2:40, but I am asking myself, if it has parking brakes applied to the front wheels, shouldn't the rear wheels lock as well when the gearbox is in parking mode? I don't know how exactly your cars work there, but I am pretty sure those tow trucks wouldn't be able to work in europe, where more than 90% of the cars have FWD and parking brake applied to the rear wheels. thats why the cars get picked up instead of being towed away
While parking pins are not designed for this, any parking pin that would fail is something a car company doesn't want to defend in court. Parking pins are not unbreakable, but they are incredibly strong.
If you've seen cop chases, you know what a wheel will do as it disintegrates. And you probably know that the coefficient of sliding friction is less than starting friction. In other words, the longer it is pulled, the stress on the pin actually goes down, not up.
How about the handbrake and AWD cars? Most of the new cars have automatic handbrake.
AWD cars cant be towed with a wheel lift just flatbeds
Freddy it's called wheel lift and dollies
+Matt “Cartman” Jula for a long drive?
Hope that rear glass is bulletproof too
How much does this truck cost
This is what my Dynamic's have been doing since the early 1990's
Dynamic INVENTED the self-loader; my 601 is 1997 vintage.
That's one bad ass tow truck
what if a car is on the hand brake ?
You can tell its new repo truck it doesn't have any bullet holes yet.....
What if it's a front wheel drive with the E brake on and tires turned
Dollys on the other wheels. I could fully load from backing up to the car to leaving with the car in under 1 minute.
donde lo encuentro en chile y el valor aproximado
The most versatile rig I have ever seen. Thought the Intruder was badass! Does it come in a f-550/650 chassis?
I love my tow truck. It's a beautiful thing.
they make sure they don't harm an oil pan, but pulling a van by the drive wheels while it is NOT IN NEUTRAL is ok? Doesn't it potentially ruin the transmission or other parts?
It doesn't ruin the transmission if a car is front wheel drive then you can lift it by the front and the back wheel's roll freely. I'm a tow truck driver that's how I know.
that van was an automatic trans equipped vehicle. the transmission locks up the front wheel not the handbrake.
Do you sale a unit to tow motor cycles?
Some of the self-loaders have adapters. I have them for my Dynamic, but stopped even trying to use. The loading is a serious PITA and a lot of bikes now have tires that are too wide for it.
Wonder if that cab door can stop a .45 or .357 or .50? I saw a repo man get his just reward once. Needless to say he never repo'd another vehicle again.
evilkidd174 I highly doubt it, and you're gay.
but the transmission does so with the front and rear wheels locked the car cannot be pulled with out a roll flat
Where did our car go?
nice but not empress,there wasn't no 5th wheel hook up no trailer hook up,and looking at the with of the bar hooking up to a duel would be dangerous?might want to go back to the drawing board? ps would like to see a duel repo video,and 90 degree angle was done around 10 yrs ago ,i think from sneaker or someone
it is just da best towing system for the driver
Excellent! " Gone in 7 seconds"!!
Did the owner of the van get a new transmission out of this along with new front tires?
All the way around that's a sweet Rig
@SICKJ0KER You can move it and then hook up chains and lights in a safe location.
How much is the truck? Nice job to the driver
handbrake doesn't lock the front wheels
when they show the tow truck backing up to the white mini van, and dragging it out of the parking space by the rear with the front wheels dragging, they neglect to mention that the car better have the parking brake on to perform this manuever, or the rear wheels are gonna roll right out of the pans
All the more reason to have your frame kissing the ground, which is pretty badass if you aren't using air. I don't tend to park in places I'd get towed, but I don't approve of this technology for the potential damage to the vehicle (I doubt most operators would check for chassis/sump clearance) and just how easy it would be to steal a car.
a friend of mine and me used the technique of picking the car up behind the front wheels
That's at the Tennessee aquarium!
Was impressive