Mon, Sep 21, 2020
Near Revelstoke,170 km west of Golden in the BC Interior, on an active logging road, an empty logging truck has gone over the edge. Jamie in "The General'' followed by Greg in "The Mack'' head to the off road recovery of a 40-50 thousand pounds, nearly intact, upside down logging truck, aided by a 100 thousand pounds log loader. Near Merritt, operator James Luke, in a 1 ton wrecker, responds to a call of a semi engulfed in flames on a side road with the tractor completely burned out but the trailer still intact. Reliable's new hire Cam Niño, in a 50 ton wrecker, is dispatched to the wreck of the smouldering tractor. Together, James and Cam get the job done and clean up the highway. High up the Coquihalla Highway an early winter blast causes multiple semis to spun out and block all the traffic, putting Al Quiring to work. Al hauls a 90 ton crane up the mountain, encountering multiple obstacles on the way.
Mon, Sep 28, 2020
Gord rescues a jackknifed semi near the Summit, having to squeeze through a maze of trucks blocking the way to the wreck's location, reaching his target he discovers a truck carrying a 40 thousand pound industrial tank deep into a snow bank. South of Merritt, near an overpass, a semi knocked down a dozen concrete barriers and flipped over. Team Reliable's new leader, Dylan Greenwood, is put to the test with the difficult rollover wreck resting on the concrete barriers, loaded with 40 thousand pounds of produce. On the mountain, up the Coq, Jamie responds to a call of a flipped pickup truck in his 22 ton wrecker, the Python, receiving a special request from its owner. In the Fraser Valley, in Agassiz, Ken is back behind a heavy wrecker's wheel, for the first time in months, after his heart attack, to rescue a rolled over semi carrying 30 tons of steel pipes. Joined by recovery legend Dick Milton, they hurry to complete the job just in time for the shift change in a maximum security penitentiary as the recovery's road is the only access point in and out of the prison.
Mon, Oct 5, 2020
In the Fraser Valley, on Highway 1, Merv has to deal with a sticky situation where an 18 wheeler whose trailer detached, crashed and spilled it's contents into the ditch. Twenty kilometers north, near Merritt, BC, on the Coquihalla Highway, Dylan and the Reliable crew face against a burning tractor trailer, having an unexpected surprise at the end of the salvage operation. On Highway 3, east of Hope, Jamie dispatches Greg Mulligan and his lead mechanic Brian Rush aboard the Mack to rescue a broken-down semi forced to get stranded around a slick bend.
Mon, Oct 12, 2020
Near Hope, BC, Jamie and Greg deal with an arctic cold front that has turned Highway 1 into a war zone, leaving multiple semis and cars stranded. One of the stranded semis packed with 40 tons of frozen meat forces Jamie to call for help from Aggressive Towing, his brother's towing company. Jamie's brother Jason and Merv bring 2 rotators for the recovery but the slippery conditions and the big weight of the load requires the team to add more iron for the completion of the recovery. With Al and his wife Nancy away on a long haul, as well as Gord on a mission elsewhere, the Coq is left in their son's hands Cary and his 20 ton wrecker. West of Hope, on Highway 1, Ken rescues an upside down pickup 30 feet below the road with help from Craig Hookey.
Mon, Oct 19, 2020
Five kilometers north of Hope, on Highway 1, a flipped over, 90 foot long super-B tanker fully loaded with 47 thousand liters of diesel, has Jamie Davis dispatching a 30 ton wrecker with operator Greg Mulligan behind the wheel, from his towing yard in Hope. Arriving on scene Greg is overwhelmed by the staggering scale of the wreck and realizes that his tow truck won't be a match for the twisted recovery. To assist him a 50 ton rotator is dispatched from Aggressive Towing with Chris Mervin behind its wheel to deal with the hazardous tanker. In the Fraser Valley Al is gearing up for an off-road unusual assignment involving his fleet of restored bulldozers. Joined by his sons Cary and Lucas, Al leads the way for old iron treasures, buried in the woods. In his D5 bulldozer, Al's rusty antiques clean-up job of almost half a century, promises to find among the relics a potential future restoration.