Safety safety safety.
I can’t stress this enough. Too many drivers are getting injured or killed on the highways from numerous things. The biggest thing that I can stress is BE SEEN!!! Wear a vest to light up the scene. There are numerous things you can do. I remember one time where I was dispatched to a disabled motorist on a toll road. It was a BMW and came out as a flat tire. I thought to myself great, this person has never changed a tire before in their entire life and will most likely sit in the car and leave me to the work. I arrive on the location of the disablement and find that the shoulder was barely enough to have the BMW on the side of the road, let alone my 21’ ford Jerr Dan Rollback. I saw the disabled car and turned on every light I had so other motorists could see me. I positioned my truck behind the disabled car so that as motorists came flying by they could see all the lights much better and not slam into us. I also pulled a page from the police and decided to angle my truck so it gave me a little more room to work, keeping me out of harms way.
Safety is the biggest thing that we need to follow out there, but so few drivers do. Wear the safety vest. Turn on all your lights especially at night. People can see those work lights and your warning lights. Put extra warning lights on the back of the truck, more than the front. And if that does not work, flares and triangles are a great tool to keep you safe, whether they are battery powered or the old fashioned ones.
Matt Thompson
Wrecker Division Resident Tower and Jerr-Dan specialist
East Coast Truck and Trailer
2906 Elmhurst Lane
Portsmouth, VA 23701
1-800-849-2178 (toll free)
(757) 465-2200 x336
