Wrecked - Season 2 Episode 1 - Thanksgiving | SPEED

on this episode of wracked a surprise early snow storm pushes O'Hare's fleet to the limit it's still fall fudge Chicago doesn't care 20 degrees outside and I'm sweatin polar and Bill realizes he needs more iron before the next door hits yeah I need another truck he puts the pressure on Joe to make it happen I'm just getting three weeks so far as paying down his leg and a bad day for a semi driver forces the crew to spend Thanksgiving weekend gathered around a rollover instead of the dinner table you have something better to do our Thanksgiving morning than this roll over with mrs. Ballew Chicago has more than 20,000 miles of highway full of breakdowns spills and wrecks it's a dangerous mess and somebody's got to clean it up bill runs O'Hare towing with his wife Marcy his brother Joe fleet of high-tech trucks team of dedicated drivers who risk their lives every day ready to respond at a moment's notice to the next big we're going to race all the guys now seeing my connect Irina thank you follow her sewing the stay hard it's only the second week of November but Chicago has been hit with a massive storm O'Hare is stretched to the max maybe beyond that with the weather being the way it's being right now I'll put I'll leave a call today it's still fall but Chicago doesn't care every driver on the clock is out on the roadways and the calls keep coming in where's Craig girls fear veteran driver Mike trekked Rakowski is responding to a call from a gasoline tanker stuck on a highway off-ramp road conditions at best are terrible that's we split up against the guardrail it was on a bridge directly above a major route through the south suburbs what made me Gulf borough was there was a car in front of me was doing a spin out and I had to slow down to avoid him and I got to slow down too far and actually stopped could not move again a stranded gasoline tanker even an empty one is like a ticking time bomb tankers empty there's no more gasoline in it but one cubic foot of vapor is equal to one stick of TNT make one mistake out here we won't be coming home this particular part is so dangerous because I'm basically pulling out a home in them can you ever tried to do that you can imagine the dangers involved if he pulls too abruptly or a wheel get stuck he could rip it in half we'll get the trailer away from the wall then I'll move forward grab the front look like that okay then please before we'll release all the breaks we'll roll it right up you're gonna answer this twice tonight I love it when a plan comes together three probably guys I do log to our work freesia this kid sees drumlin pumpin donut if I would have made one mistake up there we wouldn't go home it would have been a nightmare I'll follow you it's 20 degrees outside I'm sweating bullets Monica we torch the airport as the snow piles up on Chicago's roads the calls are piling up at O'Hara's dispatch hold on one second earlier this year bill moved the base of O'Hara's operation from the 40-year old North Lake terminal to brand-new 50,000 square foot facility in Downers Grove bill put his little brother Joey in charge of the old North Lake terminal trucks are now dispatched from both locations but because of this surprise early snowstorm there's still a two-hour wait for a tow truck all over Manheim and I to 90 men have a night to nighty we're running a couple hours behind well that tells me I need another truck it's always a balancing act to do that in the wintertime because you get exceptionally busy but I don't want anyone to sit on the side of the road so if it's a matter of me and equipment well then we'll do what we got to do to get out there and get people picked up as fast as we can but ordering a new heavy-duty tow truck from the manufacturer could take months Bill's got weeks at best but he's got a plan Marcy and I went and bought a semi tractor it's a t800 Kenworth and we found it in an auction I was all prepared to make it a semi tractor I Joanne I started talking about it we said hey we're gonna take this tractor we're gonna take the body off of one of our heavy units with mechanical problems and we're gonna make one new truck out of two old ones but that's a lot easier said than done the body here the cool boxes the boom all the hydraulics all the controls they're all coming off this truck but it's hidden put all back on a new truck it's a good plan but so far Joey hasn't made enough headway on the project I'm to keep bill happy this wires all there the controller for the Bekaa truck junction box right next to Joey convinced me that it was doing what's it gonna be a big deal winter's coming it's gonna get real exciting here real quick if these guys don't get on the great game plan here Ryan did you take the plate off that backside this was the first big project Joe had under his watch at his terminal without me and so far he's peeing on his leg allegedly is allegedly somebody quits bothering me or I say it out loud sorry now you're right hey right I'm not coming out bill continues to those confidence in Joey I'm Way too old way too fat to be doing all your work all the time Joe and a mangled semi puts everyone's Thanksgiving on hold while the crew struggles to deal with the treacherous roll over so this year Chicago got hit with a freak fall snowstorm the storm proved to O'Hare towing owner Bill drought Siana he needs another truck before winter hits for real he put his little brother Joey in charge of getting it built and he's been riding him to get it done ever since we're trying to put a show together before wintertime it's not working in my favor we're going into the season that's critical because snows coming we can't stop mother nature by awesome boss today's Tuesday right told me Friday at 4:00 p.m. hey put this truck together yesterday he was off the handle telling me why isn't it done the mistress took 16 weeks to build trikes truck took a year to build three 16 I'm just getting three weeks to build to finish the new truck the crew has to remove the fifth wheel shorten the fuel tank and stretch the frame of the new tractor before they can attach the new tow body to it right now I have the trike working on taking off all the other stuff of the one tractor that we're gonna stretch the frame on he's been doing so many years he knows exactly what I'm asking them to do this back section is all part of the record this is gonna be put on a new chassis as the early snow melts away Joey and his crew know they have to hurry there's no telling when the next storm could hit and while Joey and trike are busy finishing the new truck Bill and Marcie are trying to decide who will drive it who gets the new truck it's in negotiations right now I have who I would give it to and I think bill has who he would give it to so I just need to give them convince him to give it to the one I think in used to go traditionally how things work is a guy comes on driving a flatbed he'll do that for six months to a year maybe two then the 600 series which is our medium duties is a step up from a flatbed and then the three hundreds is the final step the biggest thing that I have to look for is he will in the wine do they want to drive a bigger truck like willing to learn it is a real big deal for a driver to get a new truck how could I say I just want a bigger truck I'll glue this truck so kind of like all the boss about getting a bigger truck for three points to run into the quarter ya know check the train it's the night before Thanksgiving and Bill Graz IANA is about to head home for a few days off but before he can get out of the office he runs into Joey no I didn't go here and pick those I Ranger there's no way you're gonna be our seven awesome a sudden you're in a big hurry can you acknowledge that you told me like the tow truck like Friday can you just tell me that Friday yeah Friday two weeks ago Friday to Marseille it was a Friday but it wasn't last Friday like open record right already oh poor Joe oh poor Joe my ass get the damn truck apart Joe case you were wondering how much time you had to work on this truck this is a puddle in the winter see it's it's called ice yeah winter's coming you see it but just when Bill thinks he's done with Joey he sees the tool boxes that are supposed to go on the new truck Joey's building out at North Lake sitting in the lot at Downers Grove Sanogo why does everything have to turn into such a project all the time I'm Way too old and way too fat to be doing all your work all the time Joe don't worry Joe I got it I don't know this winter's gonna definitely put me the brink blood pressures flipped through the roof and you choke some of them sit I'm done I'm going heat some turkey coming up Joe's Thanksgiving break from his brother is short-lived but things get scary when the steel starts flying villain just want to let you know we've got a rollover it's gonna be on 55 South phone just north of 6:00 let me know when you're around it's 3:30 a.m. Thanksgiving morning Bill's called from bed to a major wreck on i-55 a 40-ton tractor-trailer drove off the interstate through a fence and rolled into a deep ditch the force of the crash was so strong the cargo in the 53-foot trailer exploded and is strewn all over the embankment or 15 pallets and some shrink wrap so I want 806 and another leaf trailer dumpster Bobcat a little dump trailer call me after you have that executed okay because I'm going to need a half a dozen bodies the truck drivers are terrified based on what I've seen so far I was feeding the crash was pretty good he must have been going pretty pretty well Joey soon joins bill on the scene I mean they begin working on a plan to get the mangled truck out of the ditch this is one of those were I've got to eat elephant I'm not quite sure if I should start at the nose of the tail laying everywhere soon as we clear that tree trunk over there tree clump then we'll come out this way until this other guys get here we'll start working on the load the plan pick this thing up and throw it away and my few few steps in ahead of that but that's the basic plan well Bill and Joey are clearing a path to the truck cedric and jose show up to help risk our dragged that tractor out from underneath it and pull it up to an upright it and that way we can get to the front of the trailer the crew prepares to tow the tractor up a steep embankment by hooking chains up to the steel eyelets on the front of the chassis hey on Thanksgiving morning we had quite a bit of load to clean up we opted to separate the truck from the trailer and we had to winch it on its side probably 150 feet to a clearing away from trees and we had taken a fence section down to bring the truck up onto a frontage road I'm just as Joey starts to pull the massive tractor on the hill the rest of the crew arrives looking forward to the day off today stayed up late thought I was going to sleep in 6 o'clock the next I'll run off but here we are I'm thankful for you guys I want to come see my second family they missed me you have something better to do on Thanksgiving morning than this roll over I wouldn't miss it for the world the crew that happened to be out there that day if they had the choice turkeys good cold you can DVR football games and this is like our own little towing world Super Bowl and it was nice to have those kind of guys on that job in tact while the crew gets busy cleaning up the scattered cargo Joey gets back to pulling the 15,000 pound tractor out of the ditch got me a bigot he's cocky now but he's about to get a reminder of how quickly things can go wrong one of the steel eyelets snaps off the tractor and goes flying back towards jelly when it's shattered it shattered and it shattered loud and the truck dropped and 510 pounds of Steel flying around what's the scary deal came really close to hitting me almost died it could have sent someone to the hospital and we were damn lucky that nobody got hurt with only one eyelet left dragging the heavy tractor up the embankment isn't going to work they're gonna have to improvise we got to do something to Dragon on this cross check this truck up roll it over in the ditch stretch of rear-end boy I like that Joe has Cedric attached his winch line to the back of the tractor and then they wrap a chain around the front the body of the tractor is already destroyed so they're not worried about what the chain is about to do to it once the 3/8 inch chain rips through the fiberglass body Joe has a solid grip truck with the tractor now on flatland Joe and Cedric can now upright it finally Cedric can tow the mangled tractor back to the shop and Joey can move on to the overturned trailer call out with a 345 9:20 a.m. I'm gonna go get nasty with the guys run some winch line down to the trailer winch it up to me flip it in the ditch and winch it out next and you're already here boom out there you now that it's up onto the road Joey and Tony hooked their trucks up to the trailer and get ready to upright it yeah on the trailer took one up then what's the other one TJ go get your car all right better hurry boom ow my dinner should be done in about an hour so this could be perfect I got time we're not eat until 4:00 so we'll be just fine so I'm going to go home and get a shower and stuffed myself like a cobra while the rest of the gang heads home for Thanksgiving dinner Joe heads back to the shop to put in some more hours on the new truck coming up Joe's almost done with the new truck but it's not soon enough for Bill I've never stretched a truck frame I've never put the tow truck crane on hey Dwight we rock you and Bill wants to have some words with one of his drivers this is the first big project that Joe has had to manage and he is peeing down his leg it's now been a few weeks since the Thanksgiving rollover and even though it's almost finished bill is concerned that the truck Joe Lee is building won't be ready for action by the time winter hits the major work is completed and is being prepped for painting but there's still work to be done you have to give the kid guy whom she can't just say take the car so you know goodie is and there's nothing more needs to learn you gotta give them baggage you make an excuse of friend I'm not making excuses for him if you gave him clear directions on what you wanted he would follow well I guess there's three different opinions now now my leadership is being questioned Joe's put in long hours and burned gallons of midnight oil to try to prove to his brother he's up to the task I've never stretched a truck frame I've never put the tow truck crane on but I've done the tow truck bodies and I've done electrical I've done all the wiring finally three weeks after he started Joey's putting the finishing touches on truck 316 pretty psyched about it just in time we're supposed to get some snow tonight all in all I'm very happy with the end result hey Joe get to our phone I give Joe a B+ on the whole process of that truck all in all it came together well but it was very stressful because of the lack lack of time that we had with the new truck complete there's only one last thing to do hey Dwight the transition and trucks we talked about it a little bit I know you would put your hat in the ring with Joey about it and Marci and I decided that we feel that this is a nice step for you congratulations it's official right they do appreciate the new truck appreciate it yeah well even nice shade oh absolutely keep it nice absolutely the truck that he normally drives 607 was something that he was very comfortable in and he needed to be challenged and this is a natural progression for him to step up and start driving a bigger truck I'm very happy that the bosses gave me a new truck to drive it play around we didn't have so I'm very very happy about six and studied 607 I think I'm gonna have to play that on a lottery lotto if I play this and I went on the lottery everybody gonna think something wrong with your gonna like my pocket got the mumps and don't nobody else play that number because I one shot to get rich let me play it first to get rich then y'all gonna play a bigger truck more clone war responsibilities bigger tow three one six a ka two month right there three one six baby

Channel: SPEED - MOTORS on FOX

Views: 182,940

Rating: 4.8202248 out of 5

Keywords: automotive, cars, towing, Wrecked, Chicago, engineblock, engine block, speed, speed.com, crashes, wrecks, video, O'Hare Towing

Id: RD5U6tEAvM8

Length: 22min 32sec (1352 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 07 2015