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Heavy Recovery Vehicles – More Than A Pretty Face

13/06/2013 By admin Leave a Comment

We heard it on the public holiday Monday morning. The not unfamiliar sound of a truck tyre blowing as it passed the front of our family property in the South East. We heard it blow and start to shred then a sudden silence. Something was very wrong. The truck had stopped way too quickly. We started running. It was an expensive day for one good Aussie owner driver. A steer tyre had blown and his Semi crashed into thick roadside scrub. Escaping with barely a scratch was a blessing but he was a long way from home and his rig was going nowhere. A little luck was on his side this day. The trees he hit had ripped out of the ground and the Heavy Recovery Vehicle was on it's way. Fresh from it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Heavy Vehicle Tagged With: Blowout, crash, Heavy, Recovery, truck, Truckworks, Vehicle

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