Sometimes plain old bad luck, not improper equipment, gets involved in "extreme pucker factor" situations. Early one morning I got a call to fire up the big wrecker and do a recovery a few miles south on I-65 from the towing and recovery service I was managing at the time. A big 3 axle tractor sort of like John's Pete was towing a very short container trailer, about the same length as the tow rig. For some reason which wasn't fully explained, the tractor and trailer had done a 180 degree turn, and backed into the median of the interstate. How it didn't roll over is also a mystery. A light rain had been falling for a couple of days, and the rig was buried in the mud about halfway to the hubs on both the tractor and the trailer. The northbound lane of the interstate got closed by the highway patrol for an hour or so while we winched the rig back onto the pavement, with traffic routed onto surface roads for one exit. The rougher the weather got, the busier that business got! Ice and snow really made things interesting!
Jerry
