**A Day in the Life of an Off-Road Rescue Team**

As we sat in our vehicle, we couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation for the day ahead. With only five hours to get through the job list, we knew it was going to be a busy day. Our team leader, Matt, briefed us on the plan, "Alright guys, let's get this done! We've got a lot to see if we had just 5 hours in this thing, yeah it would be like night and day." He continued, "I'm going off of what Matt said 2 minutes or 5 minutes before that all right I'll follow you out okay Eric's getting with it some mighty fancy driving right there he's walking away from me these whoops are too big I don't want to beat the customer's vehicle so we'll just let him disappear over the horizon."

As we set off on our adventure, we couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and satisfaction. We were a team of professionals, ready to take on any challenge that came our way. Our first call was for a jeep that was stuck in the sand at Sand Hollow. The driver had reported that there were no rocks near him, just an endless expanse of sandy terrain stretching out before us. We arrived on scene and assessed the situation, "It's not a rock near him actually I don't know if he's stuck or just disabled but I know that it is." We would have to use our expertise and equipment to get the jeep unstuck and back on the road.

As we worked on the jeep, Eric couldn't resist teasing us about his love of Mavericks. "I've got nothing on Eric," Matt said with a chuckle. "Eric has a spidey sense for Mavericks." We all laughed at this, knowing that Eric was always on the lookout for great deals and bargains. Our next call was for a black jeep stuck between the RO Road and the lake. The driver had reported that there were no rocks near him, but we were determined to find out what was really going on. "I don't know if he's stuck or just disabled," I said to Eric, who responded with a confident smile.

As we worked on the jeep, we couldn't help but feel frustrated at times. When you're helping someone in need, it's not always easy to get them to wave and show appreciation for your efforts. "That's a frustrating thing as a d man," Matt said wryly. But we persevered, determined to get the job done and get our customers back on the road.

After several hours of hard work, we finally finished up all three jobs and headed back to the shop for a well-deserved break. We stopped at the Maverick convenience store, where we were greeted by the friendly staff and treated to a hot meal and a cold drink. "I'd say it's always 10 out of 10," Eric said with a grin, referring to his love of Mavericks.

As we sat down to enjoy our lunch, I couldn't help but think about how lucky we were to have such a great team and such an amazing job. We were all proud of what we had accomplished, and we knew that it was only going to get better from here. With full bellies and happy hearts, we headed back to the shop, ready to face whatever challenges came our way next.

Our next move was to head back out into the field once again. This time, we were heading to a staging area where Jake would be picking up a customer's jeep who had just finished another job with us. We took a moment to unwind and enjoy each other's company before getting back to work. As we waited for Jake to arrive, we chatted about our day so far and what we still needed to do.

As Jake arrived on the scene, we knew that it was time to get back to work. We were going to need all hands on deck to finish up this final job. With renewed energy and determination, we set off once again into the unknown, ready to face whatever challenges came our way next.

We were just getting started when I pulled out my phone and called Eric. "Hey there did you find him dis it's a blue one he's waving anyway oh that." We laughed at this and began to head in the direction of the jeep. As we arrived on scene, we saw that the jeep was indeed blue and that our customer was waving enthusiastically for us.

We quickly got to work on getting the jeep unstuck, using our expertise and equipment to try and dislodge it from the sandy terrain. As we worked, Eric reminded us all of one final thing that he said was missing from his vehicle - "all it needs is cup holders." We all laughed at this and continued working on the jeep.

With a combination of teamwork and determination, we were eventually able to get the jeep unstuck and back on the road. As we watched our customer drive away safely, we couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and satisfaction. It had been a long day, but it was days like this that made everything worth it.

As the sun began to set on another busy day in the life of an off-road rescue team, we knew that it was time to head back to the shop for some well-deserved rest. We were tired but fulfilled, knowing that we had done our best and made a difference in someone's life today.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: endoing donuts in the parking lot so we got to call for a Razor that is broke down in the dunes and don't click off don't click off this one's going to be really good because we got Eric with us for those of you that don't know Eric he was on the Golden Nugget with us this is not right we stuffed them in the Golden Nugget let's go this is not a cozy place to sit and talk that was kind of abuse wasn't it that's what you said that was definitely a beast he's helped us on hundreds of jobs yes absolutely so we woke him up it's the day after the 4th of July he has it off called him early this morning said Eric you're going on a job with me and for some reason he didn't say no we'll see where this takes us I'll tell you where it's going to take us um I'm going to have you drive this recer what I've never drove so in the world of heavy equipment there's people who can operate heavy equipment and then there's operators and Eric's an operator so this considered heavy equipment it is okay hang on for dear life oh boy I get the best seat in the house not going to lie with all the switches in here it looks like heavy equipment yeah sure does gas pedal and a brake so everything's normal as far as shifting it so you can just drive it for a second reverse yep not in four-wheel steering I can see that done nice yeah so so that the way this works is that just toggles so whichever way you move that that's where the front of the tires go if you hold this down they stay wherever you put them but if you don't It Centers back yep if you let go of it it centers back Matt there's no cup holders what the heck not no cup holders not yet you just got to let them roll around on the floor all right remember how mad I was at you when you ripped out all the cup holders of the Jeep yep because I ripped the shifter out oh yeah that was a good time just head right up here look at this guy go oh that windshield these are all the bugs that we hit between here and Tahoe and then back there it is right there says it lost steering so we're probably going to have to pick it up and hoist it out oh yeah look at this hey what you forgot to tell me how to run the Park ring just put it in park you're good that is broke right off of there oh W so the the bracket that the rack bolts to ripped off the frame well unfortunate we've seen worse we'll get them out we have seen worse okay what I'm thinking to protect this plastic oh wow this thing might have gone over you see that think we'll just grab the wheels okay yeah take the soft shackles off here so look have you seen this you haven't worked with the wrecker at all so I got this thing and then I can run everything so I'll boom Oh that's the wrong one here let's I was going to do this one that's one I was going to do but I didn't so that's your boom yep and then you can flip those to there and run down to here yeah so let's use let's use a couple super shackles cuz these will go all the way around the wheel right here and like I'm just going around like right through here through the wheel yeah and you leave that one hooked or do you go back through this go back to the end of the Rope I'll just do this right here so earlier today when I got to work Eric rolled in and he was giving me some Pro tips on how to run a roll back just you know little Pro tips here which I'll take any day now it looks like the tables of turn I'm learning how to run this record that's right yeah Eric Eric's uh Eric's pretty good hand need to pop this thing into one of those gears what's that say huh I don't know just go it's definitely in neutral but it's making some clunky noises that might be it might be because it's in four-wheel drive we've had this problem before where they wouldn't disengage from four-wheel drive is it not going to let us disconnect from four-wheel drive are you kidding me it's like they want me to hate these even more we can hook this up somewhere else let these front wheels spin we'll just go right here this just needs to go right here Jake guess what you get to do tow razor oh do I get a ride in this Beast yeah you're going to be riding the brakes wo keeping this tight right here best seat in the house I guess I'll be sure to go a little faster oh boy oh yeah this is your first time towing with this thing yeah it is okay let's see how this goes you're going to want to keep the brakes pretty aggressive and in the sand it's better to lock the tires than than ride the brakes just let them slide yeah cuz that keeps you from heating your brakes up all right let's jump in hurry run drill hold it open like a quarter I don't have the hot Stark tune quite dialed in let's keep it in neutral well now the front tires aren't turning I I don't know that's perfect you don't want to run all the way I only ran I head it out I only ran like 100 ft I just head straight up there oh we forgot to get your driving impressions of this truck yeah so this thing is a lot like driving a motor grater is it it it has all kinds of switches and knobs and can spin it around real quick so it's it's a big truck but it turns fast and I like driving it so far so we got a call for a jeep that is stuck in the sand out here to Sand Hollow in the middle of this job that we're doing and it just so happens we're driving past it right now the customer is not here so they're going to be meeting us with the keys down at W's Corral Eric's taking us on a primitive Road feet in high now what's that now do that that'll Eng your four-wheel drive your two your two wheel drive open the frenal right now really this thing's a beast you didn't know I was going to keep you out here all day sometimes that's what happens a lot of times that's what happens I'm going to show you a fun trick right here I mean you already know it but I'm just going to show you how a pro does it I can't wait to see this so we're just going to Sidle up to this and stick the the back end out and just line it straight up all right let's see how he does it let's see if he does it up to my specifications good enough not bad for my first time not bad now that's service right there pulling right up to the rollback all right Eric I'm going to grab the nuclear football out of there nuclear football the old nuclear football this is nice yeah I feel like I have power with this yeah the big one just goes back around here then we lock these and then we go up main boom okay and uh just drive this kind of out of the way he likes it yeah doing donuts in the parking lot put one under there and one under there okay Eric show us how it's done show us how it's done yeah I'm I'm taking the day off we're going to send Jake to go drop that off at the customer's house and Eric and I are going to stay here to go get that other Jeep all right we got the keys the mission is clear I'm going to show Eric how to wheel this to the top like the very limit and Edge of what it's capable of and then we're going to put him back in to drive down here I'm putting you in charge of those bye Jake see you later I don't know do you think this will do a dead Poole I believe it will see how everything we've done so far today's been in two wheel drive okay Eric says it'll Deadpool where's our rope at in this thing in there look at me put this guy to work about time to change that rope there's nothing wrong with it other than it's just dingy Eric said he'll do a Deadpool so just sneak up on it I haven't weighed in on this this I don't know I wouldn't be surprised if it pulls it out but I also wouldn't be surprised that is a heavy Jeep and it's really quite buried put it in low range so put it in reverse okay the lever down by your leg needs to go forward but you got to put it in neutral to do it I just you go forward yeah all the way forward I'm going to go steer the wheel but don't need to bump it it'll pull it all right let's see if it'll pull it out now pulled it right out hey it helps if you have the right leverage it pulled it right out I knew it was going to we just I had him in the wrong gear we fixed it how many hours you got behind the wheel I've got a lot you can see if you had if you had like 5 hours in this thing yeah it would be like You' be night and day difference no he did great and it's none nothing's labeled none of the switches none of the levers you don't know what they can do I'm going off of what Matt said 2 minutes or 5 minutes before that all right I'll follow you out okay Eric's getting with it some mighty fancy driving right there he's walking away from me these whoops are too big I don't want to beat the customer's vehicle so we'll just let him disappear over the horizon y'all be out there bragging about your 40s and your 42s I'm rolling on 54s so we got a call for a jeep that is stuck out the Sand Hollow in the middle of this call that we're just doing right now stuck in the sand so we're going to drop this car off to the customer and we're going to go get job number three thank you there you go thank you so much thank you nice jeep all right we're looking for a black jeep that is stuck between the RO Road and the lake so that's on the beach between the road and the lake yeah it's a YJ he said says there's not a rock near him actually I don't know if he's stuck or just disabled but I know that it is disa it maybe but he better wave at us it is frustrated there's a a lot of people when you show up to rescue they don't wave at you so you don't know they're the ones that you're helping that's a frustrating thing as a d man it is I've driven past somebody like six times and finally get out have you seen anybody that needs help and they're like it's me yeah why did you hey hey there did you find him dis it's a blue one he's waving anyway oh that it I could have swore he said he was by the beach all right well we'll get hooked up to you and get you pulled out of here you want me to lower the hood we'll just pull out top yeah all right so this is a crank a no crank no start now let's go be in the vehicle yeah we're going to be yeah you're going to be steering it okay so just follow the follow him I can he didn't even put it in four-wheel drive Whoa stop stop stop okay hang on all right the proverbial run over the Rope but we stopped before we ripped brake lines off it's okay he's going to keep going it happens I'll jump it in with you he did stop a little BR all right what you guys up to today just doing res cues all over all day yeah that's awesome yeah these are always really busy days I was hoping I would see you yesterday yeah but I didn't hope I'd see you like this all right we're heading to the staging area this is col's dog babysitter mostly my girlfriend but all right we're here we're going to get unhooked I'm going to pick up a little Trash it'll be a good day all right we almost forgot to give him a shirt have to unwrap it y this is for you you know who you are unwrapped Sign Sealed Delivered thanks Matt yep you guys thanks guys Jake's coming by to pick him up in a minute and take him to his house when he gets done with the other job happy fourth happy fourth to you all right well that wasn't too bad we got three jobs done and it's not even lunch yet we stopping at the Maverick now we are we're going to MAV Maverick so if you guys think I love Maverick I've got nothing on Eric Eric has a spidey sense for Mavericks when we were going to get the golden nugget we rolled into Reno I don't know did you know there were Mavericks in Reno I saw a sign that said Maverick 2 miles ahead I called Eric I'm like hey are your Spidey senses tingling and he says I saw it and we went there yeah see how I knew that two for five yeah he's a bargain shopper too it's getting pretty close to lunchtime I might as well get something great your Maverick experience today great 10 out of 10 I'd say yeah at least it's always got a drink and a pizza it is always 10 out of 10 for Eric all right we're going to head back to the shop and enjoy our Maverick products yep we are we got our pizza in the microwave heating it up a little bit more and still waiting for a coup thanks for watching so Eric says all it needs is cup holders yeah that's all it needs cup holders in a fan look at yeah you know how to do itdoing donuts in the parking lot so we got to call for a Razor that is broke down in the dunes and don't click off don't click off this one's going to be really good because we got Eric with us for those of you that don't know Eric he was on the Golden Nugget with us this is not right we stuffed them in the Golden Nugget let's go this is not a cozy place to sit and talk that was kind of abuse wasn't it that's what you said that was definitely a beast he's helped us on hundreds of jobs yes absolutely so we woke him up it's the day after the 4th of July he has it off called him early this morning said Eric you're going on a job with me and for some reason he didn't say no we'll see where this takes us I'll tell you where it's going to take us um I'm going to have you drive this recer what I've never drove so in the world of heavy equipment there's people who can operate heavy equipment and then there's operators and Eric's an operator so this considered heavy equipment it is okay hang on for dear life oh boy I get the best seat in the house not going to lie with all the switches in here it looks like heavy equipment yeah sure does gas pedal and a brake so everything's normal as far as shifting it so you can just drive it for a second reverse yep not in four-wheel steering I can see that done nice yeah so so that the way this works is that just toggles so whichever way you move that that's where the front of the tires go if you hold this down they stay wherever you put them but if you don't It Centers back yep if you let go of it it centers back Matt there's no cup holders what the heck not no cup holders not yet you just got to let them roll around on the floor all right remember how mad I was at you when you ripped out all the cup holders of the Jeep yep because I ripped the shifter out oh yeah that was a good time just head right up here look at this guy go oh that windshield these are all the bugs that we hit between here and Tahoe and then back there it is right there says it lost steering so we're probably going to have to pick it up and hoist it out oh yeah look at this hey what you forgot to tell me how to run the Park ring just put it in park you're good that is broke right off of there oh W so the the bracket that the rack bolts to ripped off the frame well unfortunate we've seen worse we'll get them out we have seen worse okay what I'm thinking to protect this plastic oh wow this thing might have gone over you see that think we'll just grab the wheels okay yeah take the soft shackles off here so look have you seen this you haven't worked with the wrecker at all so I got this thing and then I can run everything so I'll boom Oh that's the wrong one here let's I was going to do this one that's one I was going to do but I didn't so that's your boom yep and then you can flip those to there and run down to here yeah so let's use let's use a couple super shackles cuz these will go all the way around the wheel right here and like I'm just going around like right through here through the wheel yeah and you leave that one hooked or do you go back through this go back to the end of the Rope I'll just do this right here so earlier today when I got to work Eric rolled in and he was giving me some Pro tips on how to run a roll back just you know little Pro tips here which I'll take any day now it looks like the tables of turn I'm learning how to run this record that's right yeah Eric Eric's uh Eric's pretty good hand need to pop this thing into one of those gears what's that say huh I don't know just go it's definitely in neutral but it's making some clunky noises that might be it might be because it's in four-wheel drive we've had this problem before where they wouldn't disengage from four-wheel drive is it not going to let us disconnect from four-wheel drive are you kidding me it's like they want me to hate these even more we can hook this up somewhere else let these front wheels spin we'll just go right here this just needs to go right here Jake guess what you get to do tow razor oh do I get a ride in this Beast yeah you're going to be riding the brakes wo keeping this tight right here best seat in the house I guess I'll be sure to go a little faster oh boy oh yeah this is your first time towing with this thing yeah it is okay let's see how this goes you're going to want to keep the brakes pretty aggressive and in the sand it's better to lock the tires than than ride the brakes just let them slide yeah cuz that keeps you from heating your brakes up all right let's jump in hurry run drill hold it open like a quarter I don't have the hot Stark tune quite dialed in let's keep it in neutral well now the front tires aren't turning I I don't know that's perfect you don't want to run all the way I only ran I head it out I only ran like 100 ft I just head straight up there oh we forgot to get your driving impressions of this truck yeah so this thing is a lot like driving a motor grater is it it it has all kinds of switches and knobs and can spin it around real quick so it's it's a big truck but it turns fast and I like driving it so far so we got a call for a jeep that is stuck in the sand out here to Sand Hollow in the middle of this job that we're doing and it just so happens we're driving past it right now the customer is not here so they're going to be meeting us with the keys down at W's Corral Eric's taking us on a primitive Road feet in high now what's that now do that that'll Eng your four-wheel drive your two your two wheel drive open the frenal right now really this thing's a beast you didn't know I was going to keep you out here all day sometimes that's what happens a lot of times that's what happens I'm going to show you a fun trick right here I mean you already know it but I'm just going to show you how a pro does it I can't wait to see this so we're just going to Sidle up to this and stick the the back end out and just line it straight up all right let's see how he does it let's see if he does it up to my specifications good enough not bad for my first time not bad now that's service right there pulling right up to the rollback all right Eric I'm going to grab the nuclear football out of there nuclear football the old nuclear football this is nice yeah I feel like I have power with this yeah the big one just goes back around here then we lock these and then we go up main boom okay and uh just drive this kind of out of the way he likes it yeah doing donuts in the parking lot put one under there and one under there okay Eric show us how it's done show us how it's done yeah I'm I'm taking the day off we're going to send Jake to go drop that off at the customer's house and Eric and I are going to stay here to go get that other Jeep all right we got the keys the mission is clear I'm going to show Eric how to wheel this to the top like the very limit and Edge of what it's capable of and then we're going to put him back in to drive down here I'm putting you in charge of those bye Jake see you later I don't know do you think this will do a dead Poole I believe it will see how everything we've done so far today's been in two wheel drive okay Eric says it'll Deadpool where's our rope at in this thing in there look at me put this guy to work about time to change that rope there's nothing wrong with it other than it's just dingy Eric said he'll do a Deadpool so just sneak up on it I haven't weighed in on this this I don't know I wouldn't be surprised if it pulls it out but I also wouldn't be surprised that is a heavy Jeep and it's really quite buried put it in low range so put it in reverse okay the lever down by your leg needs to go forward but you got to put it in neutral to do it I just you go forward yeah all the way forward I'm going to go steer the wheel but don't need to bump it it'll pull it all right let's see if it'll pull it out now pulled it right out hey it helps if you have the right leverage it pulled it right out I knew it was going to we just I had him in the wrong gear we fixed it how many hours you got behind the wheel I've got a lot you can see if you had if you had like 5 hours in this thing yeah it would be like You' be night and day difference no he did great and it's none nothing's labeled none of the switches none of the levers you don't know what they can do I'm going off of what Matt said 2 minutes or 5 minutes before that all right I'll follow you out okay Eric's getting with it some mighty fancy driving right there he's walking away from me these whoops are too big I don't want to beat the customer's vehicle so we'll just let him disappear over the horizon y'all be out there bragging about your 40s and your 42s I'm rolling on 54s so we got a call for a jeep that is stuck out the Sand Hollow in the middle of this call that we're just doing right now stuck in the sand so we're going to drop this car off to the customer and we're going to go get job number three thank you there you go thank you so much thank you nice jeep all right we're looking for a black jeep that is stuck between the RO Road and the lake so that's on the beach between the road and the lake yeah it's a YJ he said says there's not a rock near him actually I don't know if he's stuck or just disabled but I know that it is disa it maybe but he better wave at us it is frustrated there's a a lot of people when you show up to rescue they don't wave at you so you don't know they're the ones that you're helping that's a frustrating thing as a d man it is I've driven past somebody like six times and finally get out have you seen anybody that needs help and they're like it's me yeah why did you hey hey there did you find him dis it's a blue one he's waving anyway oh that it I could have swore he said he was by the beach all right well we'll get hooked up to you and get you pulled out of here you want me to lower the hood we'll just pull out top yeah all right so this is a crank a no crank no start now let's go be in the vehicle yeah we're going to be yeah you're going to be steering it okay so just follow the follow him I can he didn't even put it in four-wheel drive Whoa stop stop stop okay hang on all right the proverbial run over the Rope but we stopped before we ripped brake lines off it's okay he's going to keep going it happens I'll jump it in with you he did stop a little BR all right what you guys up to today just doing res cues all over all day yeah that's awesome yeah these are always really busy days I was hoping I would see you yesterday yeah but I didn't hope I'd see you like this all right we're heading to the staging area this is col's dog babysitter mostly my girlfriend but all right we're here we're going to get unhooked I'm going to pick up a little Trash it'll be a good day all right we almost forgot to give him a shirt have to unwrap it y this is for you you know who you are unwrapped Sign Sealed Delivered thanks Matt yep you guys thanks guys Jake's coming by to pick him up in a minute and take him to his house when he gets done with the other job happy fourth happy fourth to you all right well that wasn't too bad we got three jobs done and it's not even lunch yet we stopping at the Maverick now we are we're going to MAV Maverick so if you guys think I love Maverick I've got nothing on Eric Eric has a spidey sense for Mavericks when we were going to get the golden nugget we rolled into Reno I don't know did you know there were Mavericks in Reno I saw a sign that said Maverick 2 miles ahead I called Eric I'm like hey are your Spidey senses tingling and he says I saw it and we went there yeah see how I knew that two for five yeah he's a bargain shopper too it's getting pretty close to lunchtime I might as well get something great your Maverick experience today great 10 out of 10 I'd say yeah at least it's always got a drink and a pizza it is always 10 out of 10 for Eric all right we're going to head back to the shop and enjoy our Maverick products yep we are we got our pizza in the microwave heating it up a little bit more and still waiting for a coup thanks for watching so Eric says all it needs is cup holders yeah that's all it needs cup holders in a fan look at yeah you know how to do it\n"