OT - What happens when you tow a woman's car

What do you mean "Bravo to her?" How do you know she didn't park where she shouldn't have. Now she probably will be facing theft charges and who knows what else. I hope it costs her big time!

Well, you do make a lot of sense. I better think it out, again.

Do you not find it a little strange that the tow truck was in neutral?

Is it normal to leave a tow truck in neutral while hooking a car?

Dangerous enough to get a driver fired if caught.. Definitely "staged"

A phony YouTube video? Say it ain't so!

The couple times I've been towed, the driver pulled the diamond / square yellow air brake handle.

Yes, when you make a YouTube video. There are at least 3 or 4 shows on TV based on this sort of thing. On one I watched some seemingly incredible goings on happened, but they showed how it was all staged.

Hey, hold my beer . . .

DerbyDad03 posted for all of us...

I don't get Stormy s*it but I will comment about the tow truck.

The ones I used had PTO units. So if one was to use the cables or hydraulics it had be running in neutral. We had line locks which locked up the front brakes and rears were set and chocked.

Same in fire trucks; gotta get power from somewhere. In pump training school there was always someone forgetting to disengage the transmission and if not chocked would start moving. A big indication of this was when the engine throttle moved away from your hand to bring the pump up to pressure.

The question on the table is this:

Could a person climb into a hooked vehicle, drop it into gear and tow the tow truck away as shown here?

With the vast majority today having automatics - in park - handbrake on, and line lock engabed so all 4 wheel brakes are hydraulically applied as well as the cable operated handbrake - AND in park

If the truck was in neutral with the brakes off, most definitely!!

But *would it be* is the question.

Np, that WAS the question. The current question is "Could a person climb into a hooked vehicle, drop it into gear and tow the tow truck away as shown here?"

snipped-for-privacy@snyder.on.ca posted for all of us...

I agree. Sloppy TT operator.

snipped-for-privacy@snyder.on.ca posted for all of us...

When I was doing it the TT were stick and the line locks didn't use the rears. I don't recall the line locks being on the rears on the auto trucks so park and brakes were good. Long time ago...

This car should have been flat bedded. It probably had AWD and I bet something was screaming, but then again, I could be wrong.