The towing company my son uses charges somewhere in the $800 range to tow a dead truck tractor from wherever it died to the truck repair shop. A simple empty laid over semi truck usually is not real hard to roll back on its wheels as a unit when two wreckers are used so that is $800x2 plus time and labor at the site. Someone has to crawl under the uprighted tractor to screw air fittings into the air tank and things like that. Last time I was at the scene I was the sucker who had to crawl in the water under the truck in the rain on a wet gravel road to do the air hose job. If the towing company needs to bring a semi tractor to pull the trailer away if it is towable there goes a few hundred more bucks depending on miles hauled. My sons company has a vac truck that can suck the feed out of a laid over feed truck. I dont know what that would cost them in lost time, productivity, etc. The vac truck is usually busy every day earning its keep elsewhere. When it is sitting there for two hours sucking out a laid over trailer it is not making money elsewhere. Handling that 6 inch vac hose down in a road ditch in the tall grass is hard work, more than this old guy can handle anymore. We figure eight hours from the time the truck laid over to the time the truck is towed away. And a laid over feed truck on a lonely gravel road is simple compared to some of the wrecks you mentioned.
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