Cleanup of 5th wheel accident in California

GordonThree wrote:

Tom/Barb wrote:
I watched the whole vid, I was impressed with the tow truck drivers and how unprepared they were. One truck couldn't get its cables out and the statement was made it was bad yesterday too.
then the same truck blew a big leak from the pump.
Then each compartment they opened was a mess, tangled up straps, bundled cables and equipment all intermixed.
Doesn't any one do preventive maintenance any more.

The guy with the camera didn't seem to know where anything was on the truck. Every time the boss asked for something, camera guy had to hunt through every cabinet.

I laughed out loud when the rig dumped oil on the road, so the camera man shovels some sand on it, hide his mess. Shouldn't a good recovery operator have a bag of oil dry or at least cat litter? Maybe the camera guy is a Millennial, wait for someone else (Cal Trans workers) to clean up his mess.

Seems most tow / recovery videos on YouTube are painfully long, not just this company. They spend a lot of time playing with their lines and rigging blocks, boom up winch in boom down a bit, winch in, boom back up, winch out, ad nauseam ... Must be in the job training, how to not "kill the job" getting it done too quickly

Yeah, I kind of thought the tow truck drivers were pretty clueless. Seems like the thing to do would be to put jacks under the front of the trailer, raise it, and then pull the truck out. There was a huge amount of walking around and doing nothing. They must be paid by the hour.