Professional Recovery 375

TOWTRACK
Mark Crawley from Road Runners Recovery
is full of praise for his Tow Track.
‘We always attract a small crowd and plenty of attention so you
need to be confident and familiar with how it works, but the Tow
Track is a very versatile tool.
Ours is preloaded on a trailer and when the call comes, we
couple it up to a 4 x 4 and go. The Tow Tract gets the casualty
vehicle to somewhere that’s accessible for a truck to recover it
and saves tying up a 12 tonner to come back to base to get initially
get it and again, come back to base after the car is dropped off at
the recovery destination, assuming it’s not coming back to base.
In turn we get better use from our trucks and are still able to
charge for the Tow Track.
It’s remarkably manoeuvrable with a great turning circle due
to being on tracks and equally happy off road. We’ve used it the
right cars on their roof, for burn outs and picked up a sideways
using the sill adapters.’
Midhurst Engineering
Since purchasing our new tow track last month I was a little
sceptical about the volumes of work that it would be doing
but could see the logic in it long term as the percentages of
electric vehicles on the road is only going to get higher and
higher and we are always trying to look ahead and plan for
future customer demands.
So, we were pleasantly surprised that the demand was fairly
instantaneous and as soon as training and risk assessments
were in place out it went to earn its corn. There advantage of
having it is the ease with which it can remove vehicles from
areas of limited access and as long as used properly there
should be no risk of damage. Local garages who never really
want cars dropped off that are stuck in park or with electric
handbrakes not releasing or four locked wheels on EV’s are
suddenly delighted that these can be dropped where they
want, usually inside a workshop or straight onto a ramp and
have asked if we will move any problems cars for them too.
The only slight downside is the time factor involved with these
jobs as the tow track always has to be returned to base and
because of the combined load weight it needs a 16 tonner to
carry out the jobs, but that appears to be a compromise worth
living with due to the aforementioned benefits.
● Contact Midhurst Engineering on 01730 812162
www.mideng.co.uk
Thank you to Fourwinds Garage and Elite Recovery
for providing us with photos of their TowTrack in action.
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