Help with tie-downs.

More and more cars are coming with the German style popout panel in the front bumper where you screw in a towhook, too.

 

Actually, R hooks can pretty much pull any direction on the slot. The T's are the ones that have to pull along the length of the slot, +/- 45 degrees or so. Ford still has T's listed as the approved hook, even on stuff like Shelbys, although they are ###### near impossible to use because the angles are so restricted.

 

Yes, lock it down with the e-brake. Your straps work by increasing tire footprint pressure, so locking the brake and in park helps keep the car secure. Don't get carried away pulling out with those straps, but do pull from as low on the e-track as you can. Also, make sure your front and rear straps are pulling opposite directions so the car isn't tempted to slide.

 

Blocks. Make some, for loading low profile cars like Corvettes, Camaro's. Preferably make a 45 degree cut from a 2 x 6 so you have a square block to drive onto when your ground clearance is a concern.
Some positions on quick loaders you not only need blocks to load Corvettes you have to have them under the tires when you strap it down to avoid rocker or splash panel damage.
Putting a block on the ground at the end of your skids (don't think you have this problem) will keep the skids from sliding which sometimes happens loading Vettes.

 

I always had done smooth, plastic mudflaps for Vettes. They'd let them slide right over the humps.

 

I doubt that most "new" guys running a wrecker these days would even know what an alphabet cluster was, most wreckers I see are all wheel lift and a lasso strap over the tire, pretty simple.