Cypress Towing & Recovery Service
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Cypress Towing & Recovery Service
Your car is crucial for almost everything you do. But it’s also something that has discovered a number of different ways to let you down horribly, right at the wrong time. It’s often when you are heading somewhere important that you suddenly find yourself stranded on the side of the road with car troubles. Whether it’s a dead battery, a flat tire or for any reason your vehicle stops on you it doesn’t really matter. You are stuck what a bad feeling. But you can’t wait around all day, you’ve got people to see and places to go. That’s where we come in – Cypress Towing & Recovery Service. No matter the vehicle trouble you are having, Cypress Towing & Recovery Service will get you moving again. We offer a range of services, including a tow truck, that can get you back on the road. |
Wrecker Towing |
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Who invented car towing?
Ernest Holmes Sr. is the founder of the towing industry.
Ernest Holmes became known as the designer of the tow truck in 1916 when his companion, John Wiley, required help recuperating his vehicle. Wiley had failed to keep a grip on his Ford Motel T and crashed it into a stream bed. Though he was a mechanic, Holmes had never managed a circumstance like this previously. So Holmes used concrete blocks, ropes, and six men to pull his buddy's Ford Motel T out of the creek. After improving his design Ernest Holmes began manufacturing them commercially.
5 Most Common Tow Truck Types
Flatbed or Tilt Tray or Roll Back or Slide
Wheel-Lift or Under Lift or Spectacle
Developed from the hook-and-chain technology to produce a large metal yoke that can be fitted under the front or rear wheels to cradle them, drawing the front or rear end of the vehicle clear of the ground by a pneumatic or hydraulic hoist so it can be towed. This apparatus generally picks up the drive wheels of the vehicle (i.e. the front wheels if it is front-wheel drive, the rear wheels if it is rear-wheel drive), touching only the tires. The wheel lift was designed by Arthur W. Nelson of Weld Built Body Co. in 1967. The name spectacle lift is common in Europe; the cradle resembles a pair of squared spectacles eyeglasses. Medium and heavy trucks use a variation, the "under-lift" or "chassis lift", which lifts the axle or frame instead of the wheels. Wheel-lift trucks can have adapters which can also lift the chassis. |
Boom or Hook and Chain
Boom or Hook and chain tow trucks were the earliest tow trucks or "wreckers". Hook and chain towing loops the chain around the frame or axle them lifted by a boom winch. One set of wheels will then be pulled off the ground so that the vehicle can be pulled along behind the tow truck. Integrated or Self-Loader or Snatcher or Quick Pick or Repo Truck
Boom and wheel-lift integrated into one unit. Utilized in light-obligation trucks to repossess vehicles or move illegally-parked vehicles. Most have controls for the mechanical assembly inside the cab of the tow truck to make fast pickup conceivable without the burden of leaving the truck to attach the vehicle. Though like a wheel-lift truck, a integrated truck contrasts in that the end of its boom highlights mobile arms that can all the more effectively and immediately clamp onto the wheels of a vehicle, frequently controlled from the cab of the truck. On a wheel-lift truck, the wheels of a vehicle must be manually secured to the yoke by the operator before being lifted. There are also heavy-duty trucks manufactured with integrated lifts. |
Lift Flatbed
A boom uses a wheel-lift frame to lift the vehicle vertically and load it on the bed. This type of truck can remove vehicles that are parallel-parked. It is commonly used in Europe.
A boom uses a wheel-lift frame to lift the vehicle vertically and load it on the bed. This type of truck can remove vehicles that are parallel-parked. It is commonly used in Europe.
Disclaimer
Cypress Towing & Recovery Service is a towing industry referral company. We connect you with a towing company in your area. All tow trucks are operated independently of Cypress Towing & Recovery Service. It is the responsibility of each user to verify that the towing company they're connected with meets all licensing and insurance requirements in that jurisdiction.
Photos on Cypress Towing & Recovery Service are for design purposes only and do not represent the towing services in your area.
Cypress Towing & Recovery Service is a towing industry referral company. We connect you with a towing company in your area. All tow trucks are operated independently of Cypress Towing & Recovery Service. It is the responsibility of each user to verify that the towing company they're connected with meets all licensing and insurance requirements in that jurisdiction.
Photos on Cypress Towing & Recovery Service are for design purposes only and do not represent the towing services in your area.