Wrecking the Wrecker.....

Tuesday morning, about 8:30 local time, I was coming out of the Milwaukee area after having made a delivery. The last 5 miles of the Illinois tollroad is under construction just below the Wisconsin border, and they have the road split, with two lanes of northbound traffic running alongside the edge of the north lanes, and one lane crossing the median and running up the edge of the southbound side with barricades in place. Right at the Wisconsin border, the lanes recross and rejoin for the run through Wisconsin.

Somewhere in the night, a large wrecker must have been in the single lane, and when he came out of the lane at the crossover, he missed the jog in the road and ran the wrecker right up onto the barricades. It was a really nice rig, probably worth 250,000 if you had to write a check to buy it, but when I saw it, the front axle and a lot of other underparts had been ripped out of it, and two other wreckers were working on the project of getting it off the barricades and back onto solid ground. It may have started out as a really nice Peterbilt, but it sure didn't end up that way.

Since the single lane was clearly labeled for cars only and the "Trucks use right two lanes" signs were there, I doubt that he has many valid excuses for what happened.

It must really be embarassing to own a wrecker and have to pay a bill to another wrecker company to retreive your truck after someone wrecks it.....

 

Well, this one was three rear axles, sleeper, and a nice wrecker body, so I think my guess of 250,000 wouldn;t be too far off the mark, or maybe a little bit low. Had it been a rotator, then I would have added another 50,000 or so to my guess.