**The Great Recovery Truck Build-Off**

We had high hopes for our new recovery truck, but it seemed like something was amiss from the very start. We were told that the other trucks weren't available, and we decided to take this one instead. The problem was, we didn't even know if it was up to the task. "I don't know if dig dug's up to the task," I said to Tom, my friend who had promised to build the truck up for us. We decided to find out by taking it on a test run.

As we made our way onto the trail, we encountered thick snow and icy conditions. I have to admit, I was nervous about what we might encounter. But Tom was undaunted, and he quickly got to work locking in the hubs and putting the truck into four low gear. "You've got to get on the trail," he said with a grin. We made our way slowly but surely, taking care not to hit anything too hard.

As we reached the first obstacle, Tom expertly guided the truck forward, using his years of experience to navigate the tricky terrain. The truck responded perfectly, pulling smoothly into position without any problems. I have to admit, I was impressed. But just as we were getting into a rhythm, disaster struck. One of the wheels started to spin, and we had to pull over quickly to avoid a major accident.

Tom calmly instructed me on how to get the truck back under control, explaining that it was all about patience and finesse. "You've got to learn to relax," he said with a smile. I wasn't sure if I could do that, but I tried my best to follow his advice. With Tom's guidance, we were able to slowly make our way forward once again.

As we continued on the trail, we encountered more and more obstacles. But with each one, Tom proved himself to be a master of recovery truck driving. He effortlessly swung the camera into position, capturing every moment of the adventure. And I have to admit, I was starting to get a little nervous. "Take two," he said, grinning at me. We repeated the exercise, and this time, it went even smoother.

As we made our way back down the trail, Tom pulled over and declared victory. The truck had performed flawlessly, and we were all impressed. But just as we were about to leave, disaster struck again. "I almost went down only halfway," I said, feeling a little silly. Tom chuckled and replied, "That's okay, that was just part of the fun."

As we wrapped up the test drive, Tom explained that he had learned how to drive by watching videos online. He wasn't even 40 years old when he got his first car! I have to admit, I was a little jealous. But as we said our goodbyes and headed off into the sunset, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the adventure we had just shared.

**A Word of Thanks**

As we drove away from the trailhead, Tom pulled over and asked if we wanted to stop by the yard on the way home. We agreed, and a few minutes later, he was pulling up with a box of shirts in tow. "We forgot the box of shirts," he said with a grin. I laughed and replied, "That's actually pretty normal for us." Tom smiled and handed me a shirt with our company logo on it. "Here you go," he said. "Thanks for coming out to test drive our new recovery truck. We really appreciate your feedback."

As we left the yard and headed back home, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement. We had learned so much about each other and ourselves during this adventure. And who knows? Maybe one day we'll take on an even bigger challenge together.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyeah how's this getting worse so we got a call for a car that is stuck in the mud up by Beaver so we're going to head up there see if we can get it out got Lizzy back there with the weather there's some snow on the ground it wasn't snowing in Hurricane but it's about 40° and we're going to get him out col's going to be swinging a camera today we just stopped at Maverick he's got us some breakfast swinging a slice I got some chicken nuggets what' you get Lizzy a Brio the customer got the car stuck a couple days ago sorry I'm eating my chicken nuggets very rude of me all right so we're gonna be picking the customer up here at their place of residence and uh hopefully they've got the keys but we'll head up there and get it how are you guys doing today pretty good how about you pretty good good good thank you again for doing this it really means a lot like seriously so what happened so I was trying to Door Dash and I don't normally use the door Dash app for directions but I don't really know my way around like Beaver or Cedar City really and so I thought where I was was like the beaver little town and it wasn't and so it started taking me down a dirt road it was just it was dry all the way there up until I tried to stop the car and it just slid into mud and almost into like a river Creek type of thing well we'll go see you got your keys I do okay that same important part sometimes we forget the keys y we'll go get them 1 2 1 2 3 all right we just turned off the pavement onto dirt road here we got about 2 and 1 half miles of this before we get to the vehicle according to our GPS GPS has got someone into trouble on this road recently so I don't know how well we can trust that we're going to go as far as blue steel can take us then we're going to unload the more a and we're going to pack in there like sardines go get this car this is as far as we're going to go the road doesn't look bad but we're sliding all over the place all right we're crammed in here Lizzie's going to be driving today because I'm too lazy to drive oh okay I'm in the driver's seat of the morar and we are going down the road how are you guys doing back there all right good might take a nap yeah this road looks dry but it's wet the ugly mud fenders work Mom and Lizzy did a job yesterday so they bolted them on I'm glad they're still on so was this orange sign there when you drove past no let's see what this sign has to say right it says water over roadway yeah this is a mud puddle yeah it was not this bad last time May that L worse well it looks like we're getting our boots muddy today so let's see how bad it is in front Okay well that guy drove right down here to check on it no one's been past you yeah you got to get over here almost in okay stop right here I think we're going to be just pulling backwards so we're not going to spin you around yeah until we get back there um that's fine I'll put you in that car yeah okay you're just going to get muddy there's no two ways around it juicy sloppy oh wow man I'm going to lose my boots this is bad oh man I hope this car still runs look at that oh my gosh oh I can't get my gosh I can't I cannot get in front of the car I'm up to my knees will you unlock it I'll see if I can get the door open for you I don't know whether it's better to take baby steps or huge steps okay okay Lizzie once you're in here you're in here yeah this is insane I'm sorry I'm going to get your car muddy okay it started up that's good I'm going to get you hooked up this is the luckiest Buck I've ever been in how confident are you Matt pretty confident we'll get this out of here it's quite stuck though we'll see I'm hoping we can just do it with kinetic energy that'll be the least amount of messing around okay look on should have wore some boots today okay put it in reverse you need help all crossed up I almost lost my boot not cool okay let's try this again it's pretty bad when your only options to wash your mud off in some more mud this is how's this getting worse I was walking around in it pretty good seems to be okay this is killing my ankles what are you laughing at Lizzy Lizzy's laughing at me all right let's see if we can get out of here Lizzy will those front wheels break loose try put it in Drive first see if you can get one of the front wheels to spin I yeah they're spinning good okay put it in reverse I got to get over here on the other side it's come just far there we go one we were looking for we'll just have Lizzy take it back up to where we unloaded I was scraping the front end the entire time like it was just sunk and the morar was just pulling it the whole way have fun luckily mud will dry it'll turn to dust the wind blow it away that's the good thing how are your shoes well I got a little bit of a clay treatment on my socks over all not too bad all right we'll head back what did we learn today Apple Ms is more accurate ring rubber boots I hate mud actually I didn't I didn't learn that today I just reinforced it oh there's some plastic stuff underneath that there's going to be got ripped out a little bit but it drives fine yeah so there's a there's plastic panels that go underneath the engine and transmission they fuel mileage and wind noise they put go together with pop rivets and zip ties so you're going to want to get this washed off yeah on and then and then get those all popped back in together oh yeah yeah it'll drive fine forward this just going to make some noise okay there's yours thank you here's yours thank you very much you're welcome okay we'll uh send you guys on your way thank you oh boy now I got to go to the dentist I kind of regret not getting a victory Pi for that job because that job was really tough the car came out actually pretty easily but walking around that mud I am exhausted I am really out of shape because I had to lift my foot in a weird way to keep from losing my boot with every single step I made every single one I use some muscles on the top of my foot top of my leg that I just don't ever use Matt told me about this job he's like it's car stuck in mud in a mud puddle that's what he said I was like oh I should bring my muuk boots you know a ranch girl on my Muk boots well I forgot wish I would have though that would have been nice but we did get it out so we got a call for an SUV or something like that up on the colop Terrace Road I think he's in the Lambs null area we're going to head up there we're driving in digdug today we're going to go get him out and I got the weather it's pretty nice out there you might be wondering why we're in dig duck and the answer is because the wrecker the banana and the mor are all at the tow truck games and and this is all we had left it'll do get her done dig tug get her done so the customer said they were going to meet us here at the intersection of SR9 and the co up Terrace Road we'll see if uh that's the case or if one of us is waiting for the other what do you think is he going to be there I think we beat him unless he's driving a greater says he's arrived oh that's him oh we got here at exactly the same time how's it going I'm gurus stew gurus stew awesome I show people their path all right you're such an extraordinary person I can't believe all the people that you guys have helped thank you I get paid to tie ropes to people and throw them off cliffs well that's a heck of a job we tie ropes to people and pull them back up Cliffs so kind of the opposite so we're riding here we've been talking with Stu here about what he does and he does canyoning guiding repelling there's a deer there's some deer squirrel helping people overcome their fears of height and I'm afraid of heights and he's afraid of heights see I am scared to be on camera so but yeah being on camera was a huge fear took me about a year I have a whole bunch of footage of me filming myself trying to get used to it wow that never made it because it like I had nervous ticks really bad but anyway it's beautiful beautiful evening and I was just thinking did we explain very good why we're taking dick dug not really we just said that the other ones weren't available but Tom's planning on building this truck up a little bit and we were thinking I don't know if dig dug's up to the task so we decided to take it we'll find out here in a little bit if it's got what it takes to be a recovery truck we haven't even driven it up slip Lun yet no we have we need to just go try it go break it not till you have those spare parts not till your front axle's buil all right we'll build that then we'll go break it and then we'll put in the axle that's the right order Matt you've changed saved you from saying it them elk we got deer and Elk on the same trip that's going to get you a discounted price you think so yeah I guarantee it luy Tom this is quite a bit of snow are you nervous yeah I'm nervous what are you getting me into here do you get the lockers put in this yet that has a locker in it but we don't have any air so I can't turn it on what have I done I need a shraer valve in a Makita air pump oh that Tesla he probably ran out of BTS all right so we got to lock in the hubs lock in the hubs put it in four low low low I can show you where the tube is that we need to apply 80 psi This Is Us right here we get on the trail yeah yeah you got to have you'll have to imagine it but he's down there twisting The Hub into the locked position this is the same setup in the mor so we got to get both sticks forward okay there we go you got them yep party mode oh there's a chance it just pulls out easy yeah you might as well get in position we got nice nice pull points there yeah might as well start it up and get it warming up this is going to be a nice slow static pull okay don't hit it too hard don't hit it at all okay look at this look at this oh I got it I got it patience I need to learn patience you think so yes you don't think you have that quality I'm a very impatient person whatever you know the cool thing about patience what's that you don't have to do anything but see I love doing stuff that's all I do I just do stuff but with him right now I don't know if you've actually taught him anything but just taught me a few things how do you feel about that that'll be perfect so what we're going to want to do here is there's going to be no bounce it's going to be a static pull this is a drill if you fail you'll be disowned oh man are high all right go ahead and jump in it just just put it in Drive can you don't you don't have to give any gas and you're going to swing wide okay drive yeah oh stop come on back this didn't get hooked up there we go we're good now all right take two whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa slow down I think you can drive that I didn't wanted to get the wheel wrapped the the Rope wrapped around your wheel awesome awesome okay pull forward a little bit Tom let's see if this will drive now nope you going have to back up all right I'm just here working supposed to be swinging the camera but I just I just can't stop all right nice gentle slow no gas no gas no gas for you I'll just let it going have to give a little gas yeah baby that's did it okay stop yep okay okay just drive down the road a little bit okay give this one to see if yeah you got it now all right SI oh my gosh such an honor to have you my woohoo my fun fact is I didn't I learned how to drive in third grade but I didn't own a car until uh I was 40 oh yeah a bracer something I I am all right woo you okay I almost went down only halfway what was that I only went halfway down all right I always say if a job's worth doing it's worth doing halfway that worked out really good oh we should have brought a box of shirts we forgot the box of shirts all right you're going to have to stop by the yard because we don't have any t-shirts with us which is actually pretty normal even if we're not driving this vehicle so uh looks up come by absolutely we'll get you one totally I really appreciate you guys coming out yeah this was awesome I had so much fun beautiful night am I glowing oh yeah Halo so that wasn't too bad Tom did an excellent job Stu here did an excellent job I think I did an excellent job totally and that's that thanks for watching oh this windowyeah how's this getting worse so we got a call for a car that is stuck in the mud up by Beaver so we're going to head up there see if we can get it out got Lizzy back there with the weather there's some snow on the ground it wasn't snowing in Hurricane but it's about 40° and we're going to get him out col's going to be swinging a camera today we just stopped at Maverick he's got us some breakfast swinging a slice I got some chicken nuggets what' you get Lizzy a Brio the customer got the car stuck a couple days ago sorry I'm eating my chicken nuggets very rude of me all right so we're gonna be picking the customer up here at their place of residence and uh hopefully they've got the keys but we'll head up there and get it how are you guys doing today pretty good how about you pretty good good good thank you again for doing this it really means a lot like seriously so what happened so I was trying to Door Dash and I don't normally use the door Dash app for directions but I don't really know my way around like Beaver or Cedar City really and so I thought where I was was like the beaver little town and it wasn't and so it started taking me down a dirt road it was just it was dry all the way there up until I tried to stop the car and it just slid into mud and almost into like a river Creek type of thing well we'll go see you got your keys I do okay that same important part sometimes we forget the keys y we'll go get them 1 2 1 2 3 all right we just turned off the pavement onto dirt road here we got about 2 and 1 half miles of this before we get to the vehicle according to our GPS GPS has got someone into trouble on this road recently so I don't know how well we can trust that we're going to go as far as blue steel can take us then we're going to unload the more a and we're going to pack in there like sardines go get this car this is as far as we're going to go the road doesn't look bad but we're sliding all over the place all right we're crammed in here Lizzie's going to be driving today because I'm too lazy to drive oh okay I'm in the driver's seat of the morar and we are going down the road how are you guys doing back there all right good might take a nap yeah this road looks dry but it's wet the ugly mud fenders work Mom and Lizzy did a job yesterday so they bolted them on I'm glad they're still on so was this orange sign there when you drove past no let's see what this sign has to say right it says water over roadway yeah this is a mud puddle yeah it was not this bad last time May that L worse well it looks like we're getting our boots muddy today so let's see how bad it is in front Okay well that guy drove right down here to check on it no one's been past you yeah you got to get over here almost in okay stop right here I think we're going to be just pulling backwards so we're not going to spin you around yeah until we get back there um that's fine I'll put you in that car yeah okay you're just going to get muddy there's no two ways around it juicy sloppy oh wow man I'm going to lose my boots this is bad oh man I hope this car still runs look at that oh my gosh oh I can't get my gosh I can't I cannot get in front of the car I'm up to my knees will you unlock it I'll see if I can get the door open for you I don't know whether it's better to take baby steps or huge steps okay okay Lizzie once you're in here you're in here yeah this is insane I'm sorry I'm going to get your car muddy okay it started up that's good I'm going to get you hooked up this is the luckiest Buck I've ever been in how confident are you Matt pretty confident we'll get this out of here it's quite stuck though we'll see I'm hoping we can just do it with kinetic energy that'll be the least amount of messing around okay look on should have wore some boots today okay put it in reverse you need help all crossed up I almost lost my boot not cool okay let's try this again it's pretty bad when your only options to wash your mud off in some more mud this is how's this getting worse I was walking around in it pretty good seems to be okay this is killing my ankles what are you laughing at Lizzy Lizzy's laughing at me all right let's see if we can get out of here Lizzy will those front wheels break loose try put it in Drive first see if you can get one of the front wheels to spin I yeah they're spinning good okay put it in reverse I got to get over here on the other side it's come just far there we go one we were looking for we'll just have Lizzy take it back up to where we unloaded I was scraping the front end the entire time like it was just sunk and the morar was just pulling it the whole way have fun luckily mud will dry it'll turn to dust the wind blow it away that's the good thing how are your shoes well I got a little bit of a clay treatment on my socks over all not too bad all right we'll head back what did we learn today Apple Ms is more accurate ring rubber boots I hate mud actually I didn't I didn't learn that today I just reinforced it oh there's some plastic stuff underneath that there's going to be got ripped out a little bit but it drives fine yeah so there's a there's plastic panels that go underneath the engine and transmission they fuel mileage and wind noise they put go together with pop rivets and zip ties so you're going to want to get this washed off yeah on and then and then get those all popped back in together oh yeah yeah it'll drive fine forward this just going to make some noise okay there's yours thank you here's yours thank you very much you're welcome okay we'll uh send you guys on your way thank you oh boy now I got to go to the dentist I kind of regret not getting a victory Pi for that job because that job was really tough the car came out actually pretty easily but walking around that mud I am exhausted I am really out of shape because I had to lift my foot in a weird way to keep from losing my boot with every single step I made every single one I use some muscles on the top of my foot top of my leg that I just don't ever use Matt told me about this job he's like it's car stuck in mud in a mud puddle that's what he said I was like oh I should bring my muuk boots you know a ranch girl on my Muk boots well I forgot wish I would have though that would have been nice but we did get it out so we got a call for an SUV or something like that up on the colop Terrace Road I think he's in the Lambs null area we're going to head up there we're driving in digdug today we're going to go get him out and I got the weather it's pretty nice out there you might be wondering why we're in dig duck and the answer is because the wrecker the banana and the mor are all at the tow truck games and and this is all we had left it'll do get her done dig tug get her done so the customer said they were going to meet us here at the intersection of SR9 and the co up Terrace Road we'll see if uh that's the case or if one of us is waiting for the other what do you think is he going to be there I think we beat him unless he's driving a greater says he's arrived oh that's him oh we got here at exactly the same time how's it going I'm gurus stew gurus stew awesome I show people their path all right you're such an extraordinary person I can't believe all the people that you guys have helped thank you I get paid to tie ropes to people and throw them off cliffs well that's a heck of a job we tie ropes to people and pull them back up Cliffs so kind of the opposite so we're riding here we've been talking with Stu here about what he does and he does canyoning guiding repelling there's a deer there's some deer squirrel helping people overcome their fears of height and I'm afraid of heights and he's afraid of heights see I am scared to be on camera so but yeah being on camera was a huge fear took me about a year I have a whole bunch of footage of me filming myself trying to get used to it wow that never made it because it like I had nervous ticks really bad but anyway it's beautiful beautiful evening and I was just thinking did we explain very good why we're taking dick dug not really we just said that the other ones weren't available but Tom's planning on building this truck up a little bit and we were thinking I don't know if dig dug's up to the task so we decided to take it we'll find out here in a little bit if it's got what it takes to be a recovery truck we haven't even driven it up slip Lun yet no we have we need to just go try it go break it not till you have those spare parts not till your front axle's buil all right we'll build that then we'll go break it and then we'll put in the axle that's the right order Matt you've changed saved you from saying it them elk we got deer and Elk on the same trip that's going to get you a discounted price you think so yeah I guarantee it luy Tom this is quite a bit of snow are you nervous yeah I'm nervous what are you getting me into here do you get the lockers put in this yet that has a locker in it but we don't have any air so I can't turn it on what have I done I need a shraer valve in a Makita air pump oh that Tesla he probably ran out of BTS all right so we got to lock in the hubs lock in the hubs put it in four low low low I can show you where the tube is that we need to apply 80 psi This Is Us right here we get on the trail yeah yeah you got to have you'll have to imagine it but he's down there twisting The Hub into the locked position this is the same setup in the mor so we got to get both sticks forward okay there we go you got them yep party mode oh there's a chance it just pulls out easy yeah you might as well get in position we got nice nice pull points there yeah might as well start it up and get it warming up this is going to be a nice slow static pull okay don't hit it too hard don't hit it at all okay look at this look at this oh I got it I got it patience I need to learn patience you think so yes you don't think you have that quality I'm a very impatient person whatever you know the cool thing about patience what's that you don't have to do anything but see I love doing stuff that's all I do I just do stuff but with him right now I don't know if you've actually taught him anything but just taught me a few things how do you feel about that that'll be perfect so what we're going to want to do here is there's going to be no bounce it's going to be a static pull this is a drill if you fail you'll be disowned oh man are high all right go ahead and jump in it just just put it in Drive can you don't you don't have to give any gas and you're going to swing wide okay drive yeah oh stop come on back this didn't get hooked up there we go we're good now all right take two whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa slow down I think you can drive that I didn't wanted to get the wheel wrapped the the Rope wrapped around your wheel awesome awesome okay pull forward a little bit Tom let's see if this will drive now nope you going have to back up all right I'm just here working supposed to be swinging the camera but I just I just can't stop all right nice gentle slow no gas no gas no gas for you I'll just let it going have to give a little gas yeah baby that's did it okay stop yep okay okay just drive down the road a little bit okay give this one to see if yeah you got it now all right SI oh my gosh such an honor to have you my woohoo my fun fact is I didn't I learned how to drive in third grade but I didn't own a car until uh I was 40 oh yeah a bracer something I I am all right woo you okay I almost went down only halfway what was that I only went halfway down all right I always say if a job's worth doing it's worth doing halfway that worked out really good oh we should have brought a box of shirts we forgot the box of shirts all right you're going to have to stop by the yard because we don't have any t-shirts with us which is actually pretty normal even if we're not driving this vehicle so uh looks up come by absolutely we'll get you one totally I really appreciate you guys coming out yeah this was awesome I had so much fun beautiful night am I glowing oh yeah Halo so that wasn't too bad Tom did an excellent job Stu here did an excellent job I think I did an excellent job totally and that's that thanks for watching oh this window\n"