The Jamie Davis Towing Discussion Thread

If you can not stop safely , drive through a deer. It's life is not worth putting your or others lives in danger.

 

I'm in the middle of Season 2. A couple of times I have heard Jamie say, Oh well, the customer doesn't want to break the seal.
Well, if the customer doesn't want the seal broken, don't put the trailer 50 ft down in the ditch. Lol

 

The biggest reason for the right now hustle is environmental. The longer the wrecked truck sits in the woods the higher the likely hood of fluid leaks or the greater the damage to the environment from the fluids already spilled. Also, some of that cargo is salvagable if it is not exposed to the elements, that is where stores like Job-Lot and Odd-Lot get some of their merchandise. Also in most areas there are rules compelling the owner to remove the debris as soon as possible.

One notable difference from the show up north and how we do it in the lower 48, down here the towing company is usually responsible for the entire job, cargo, spill cleanup, wreck removal, and site remediation (grass, landscaping, etc) whereas it seems on the Coq the highway maintenance contractor and/or local government handles many of those functions.

 

That's the first thing they teach you in defensive driving. In the car/light truck portion they actually say to let of the brake before impact to bring the front end up. In theory this helps reduce the chance of the deer coming through the windshield.

 

I think it's funny how he's always trolling Jamie and calling him "James."

 

Lol guess who used to have a warehouse in Omaha called big blue bargains ?

 

I'm sure Werner had plenty of freight to feed that place LoL. Those guys even have their own fleet of wreckers just to move damaged trucks back to HQ for repairs.