a tilting deck tow truck should have a winch so that you don’t need to use ratchet straps... these are “perfessionals”

The last tow driver I dealt with loaded my wrecked ten year old Mustang. He could have taken a massive dump in it for all I cared at that point because I knew it was a total loss, but he handled it with the same care he would have given a new Mercedes, including making sure it was adequately secured to the truck.

For sure, every tow truck driver who’e ever helped me was conspicuously careful about making sure that under no survivable circumstances would the car part company with the truck.

I drove a tow truck as a side hustle for AAA back in the day and from the looks of it, she is lucky the car didn’t kill her if she had to stop quickly in route since it wasn’t strapped down AT ALL. The way I was taught - sure you can apply the vehicle’s parking brake but you better not rely solely on that. We had to…

Same. It’s absolutely crazy to me that someone would take possession of this car after seeing that happen.

Why would you knowingly accept a car with defects and then KEEP it after the delivery person literally drops it on the ground?

Yeah, that was my second thought.  Or depending on what part of the country you live in, snakes work too.  Too cold where I live, but if it wasn’t, I’d totally put a couple of Go Pros in the car with a handful of snakes.  They don’t even need to be venomous to get the job done.

Yeah it seems to happen everywhere, but IMO it’s MORE galling when it’s something that has been there for YEARS.  It’s like moving near an existing airport like look you knew full well what was there and chose, because it is a choice, to move there.  You don’t get to bitch about noise.  I can kind of understand if…

Your feelings don't deceive you. He did no searching for a landing spot, didn’t pitch for best glide, didn’t bother trying to restart the engine and didn’t even make a radio call.

Yeah, better to link to videos revealing how incredibly likely it is that this was faked like:

We had this exact thing happen where I live. We had a local dirt track, I think it was dirt, called Hotrod Hill, it had been around for I think 30 some odd years. So it was a KNOWN thing in that area. People started moving in near the track bitched about the noise, of a track they KNEW was there at the time, and it…

If it’s all the same to you, I’m not going to watch his video. I don’t want to add to his clicks.

The Explorer became a soft roader a long time ago, appearance packages be damned.

I mean. Airports are suppose to be designed like shopping malls from its function alone.

Seen it too many times before even with something as simple as a drag strip.

It’s the new Mazda5!

A body on frame SUV is distinctly different to unibody construction. They are better suited for towing and off road use. The Explorer is AWD, and while decent is no 4wd. It also has no low range or locking diffs. Is it so wrong to want to capability of a truck with enclosed storage and/ or third row seating instead of…

Seats seven *and* it has 3 pedals?!

Holy shit, child rapists, murderers and other far more horrible people get far less time than this.  Did this guy fuck up and deserve to go to jail?  Certainly.  Does he deserve 110 years, not even close.  Total failure of the system here so far.

At the same time, why does everything have to come down to legality and signed agreements for things like this. Shouldn’t a well functioning system be easy to navigate, transparent, and not rely on having to protect yourself all the time?  An ideal system here should be relatively “frictionless” so to speak.