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alt. A motor vehicle typically equipped with winches, chains, and related equipment, and used to tow disabled vehicles. n. A motor vehicle typically equipped with winches, chains, and related equipment, and used to tow disabled vehicles.
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A tow truck (also called a wrecker, a breakdown truck, recovery vehicle or a breakdown lorry) is a truck used to move disabled, improperly parked, impounded, or otherwise indisposed motor vehicles. This may involve recovering a vehicle damaged in an accident, returning one to a drivable surface in a mishap or inclement weather, or towing or transporting one via flatbed to a repair shop or other location.
A tow truck is distinct from a motor carrier that moves multiple new or used vehicles simultaneously in routine transport operations.
Recorded by Len Milne at Bedside Studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Tow Truck is the third album from The Perpetrators. The follow-up to the 2005's The Gas and The Clutch, it is the first Perpetrators album to feature Chris "MAMA" Bauer on drums (and guitar on his composition, "R.Cowboy," which features J Nowicki on the drumkit) alongside founding members, Nowicki and Ryan Menard. Guest musicians featured on the disc include (original band member) Chris Saywell and Donny Zeuff of the D.Rangers; Sarah Dugas and Andrina Turenne of Madrigaia; Damon Mitchell of Nathan and The New Meanies; Grant Siemens of the Corb Lund Band; Joanna Miller of the Scott Nolan Band; Andrew Neville and Rob Vaarmeyer of the Poor Choices; Alice Ramsay and Billy Merritt.
Usage examples of "tow truck".
In the middle of the afternoon, as I returned from dumping a load of Honey Bucket waste out behind the shed, I saw Reggie Beauchamps's tow truck parked on the Factory lot.
Usually, Randy drove the tow truck out with him and they came back together.
He made four more quick turns to lose the tow truck and the van, and then sped toward the airport.
One down the street in the tow truck, one on the roof of the warehouse behind the station, one in the red van parked beside the western bar and diner next door.
We'll come across a farm soon, or a village, and I'll get whatever's there, even if it's a tow truck.
Eight minutes later, the tow truck stopped on the street outside the wall around the mansion, and Po raced toward the gate.
While the tow truck hooked up the Saab, Pedro Luz forced himself to reflect on events.
Using the F-16 like a tow truck, he pulled the F-lll to the cliff at the edge of the runway and nudged it.
He dived behind the tow truck as bullets crashed through the windshield and pocked the hood.