Recovery Trucks

Welcome to the Recovery Trucks website totally dedicated towards recovery truck related information and resources. Recovery trucks are some of the most interesting and ingenious motor vehicles invented by mankind. From the flatbed recovery truck that hydraulically lifts and lowers it’s backside to the boom or hook and chain it’s a facinating example of modern mechanical and engineering. No one looks away when they have a opportunity to witness a recovery or breakdown truck in operation.

Now with the amount of road accidents, skidding and sliding in winter slippery roads and the awful timing vehicle troubles like engine trouble, many people today have had the need to have the service of a recovery truck to help in the above mentioned unfortunate situations. And this means good news for the recovery service providers and vehicle and equipment suppliers.

Anyway recover trucks that are also called breakdown truck or wrecker truck (is the recovery truck the doctor or patient or is it the cause?) or most apply as the breakdown recovery truck. These type of trucks are based on heavy duty  pickup and medium duty trucks and chassis.  They are the one that are used for moving disabled cars and other vehicles from one location to another due to a accident, collision or breakdown to the motor vehicle needing moving. Normally used by emergency road emergency and haulage service operators, garages, fire stations and transport companies with a large large vehicle fleets.

There are three types of common recovery truck types. One is called the hook and chain or sling. That’s the kind of truck you see that have looped around the vehicle frame/axle and then lift one side of the vehicle, usually the front side and then tow it on its other axle.

The second truck type is a evolution of the hook and chain trucks. It’s a called the wheel lift truck. It has a large metal yoke like think that can be fitted on to the customers vehicle in the front or back and raise and hold that side. Then it tows the damages or unmovable vehicle.

The third type is the flatbed truck. It’s also called the rollback tow trucks. This one has a flat bed in it’s back that is hydraulically lowered or tilted to the round level. The motor vehicle needing assistance is then driven onto this sliding bed by it’s own power or pulled by a hoist of the flatbed truck. For this reason some refer to this truck type as “tilt and slide recovery trucks” since the bed tilts and vehicles slide from it.

So this is the general information about break down recovery trucks. They are manufacture by many different vehicle brands including Ford, Kenworth, Renault, Peterbilt, Volvo amongst others. You can read more about purchasing, models, brands and prices of recovery trucks in other articles here on recoverytrucks.net along with the many dealers and sales outlet websites and stores that are there on the Internet.