Commercial Recovery Vehicles

Efficiency and Safety With Commercial Recovery Vehicles

Commercial recovery vehicles are trucks used to move improperly parked, disabled, or impounded vehicles. These trucks help in recovering an automobile wrecked in an accident, returning a vehicle to a drivable area in inclement weather or after a mishap, or transporting or towing a vehicle on a flatbed to another location or a repair shop. eBay offers new and used recovery vans at a range of affordable price points.

The following are the most common types, usually depending on the size or type of vehicle that needs to be towed:

• Boom: Comes with a winch-attached adjustable boom that helps recover vehicles over an embankment, from a ditch, or any other place suitable.
• Wheel-lift: Also known as spectacle lift, wheel-lift types come with a big metal yoke that goes under a vehicle's rear or front wheels to underpin them, drawing the vehicle's rear or front end off the ground using a hydraulic or pneumatic hoist so it could be towed.
• Integrated: These are deployed onto light-duty trucks for moving illegally parked vehicles or repossessing them.

Government agencies, such as police departments, do not own tow trucks. They invariably depend on private businesses and enter into vehicle towing contracts with them. Having a fleet of recovery trucks is the first step to being prepared for the job. Individuals and companies offering recovery services are therefore not just helping people, but are also profiting from the service.

A flatbed is a truck that has its entire rear fitted with a large bed that could be inclined hydraulically and slid back, letting vehicle(s) be positioned on it and carrying rather than towing the vehicle. A lift flatbed, on the other hand, is a boom that vertically lifts the vehicle using a wheel-lift frame and loads the vehicle onto the bed to be carried.

A commercial recovery vehicle comes with the necessary power for recovering vehicles of various types. Fitting chain tows to existing trucks will not just leave you with inadequate towing power, but would also present a few other concerns, such as towing vehicle safety and driving hazards. If you are in the vehicle recovery business, your clients would appreciate you employing a proper towing truck and not a makeshift recovery van. Also, proper tow trucks come fitted with other job-necessary features, such as dashboard lights, which ensure the vehicle's visibility in the dark.