Types of Heavy Duty Towing Equipment

Towing technology allows for the safe transportation of all sorts of vehicles – including large wheeled vehicles like trucks, trailers, or construction equipment. Professional towing services all over planet Earth are relied on in order to transport these heavy vehicles using custom equipment known as heavy duty towing equipment. Chicago Towing maintains a fleet of all sorts of towing vehicles, from light and medium to heavy duty tow trucks in order to provide customers of all types with assistance when they need it. Here’s a brief guide to the types of specialized towing equipment, with an emphasis of heavy duty towing equipment.

Many Types of Towing Services Provided by Chicago Towing

Medium and Light Duty Towing Service

Chicago Towing can easily provide towing administration service to light and medium vehicles ot homes, parking spots – and more often, whatever type of ‘benefit’ station serves the vehicle’s mechanical needs best and is closest by, including auto shops, car dealerships, and gas stations.

Light Duty Towing Roadside Assistance Service

This service is specialized to quickly provide solutions for regular sized automobile drivers who suddenly experience any form of roadside vehicular issues, from flat tires and empty gas tanks, to overheating or other forms of breakdowns.

Vehicle Recovery Service

Chicago Towing’s vehicle recovery service is custom specialized for all forms of vehicles that due to mechanical issue or accident, find themselves stuck off the roadside – either simply on the side of the highway embankment, or even (hopefully not) in a ditch. Our expert team uses winches to access and tow your car out of vegetation, snow, mud, or any form of climate that it finds itself stuck in – a process known as a winch out.

Heavy Duty Towing Service

This broad range of services has, under its umbrella, all the above mentioned services, albeit catered to those operating heavy duty vehicles. It applies to all forms of vehicular dilemmas, including broken tires, empty gas, breakdowns, and the like. Depending on what specific vehicle you are dealing with, the team at Chicago Towing will utilize different types of towing equipment to rescue your heavy duty vehicle – and our service is available at any hour of the day. Examples of heavy duty vehicles that we can provide service for are:

  • Busses

  • Motor Coaches

  • Semi-Trucks

  • Tractors

  • Medium Duty Trucks

  • Trailers

  • Semi Trucks

  • Semi Trailers

  • Storage Vehicles

 

Common heavy duty towing / roadside recovery service equipment includes:

Fully Hydraulic Lowboys

These advanced trucks are used to tow heavy equipment, anything from concrete blended structures, sheds, and all forms of heavy duty vehicles and parts.

Car Transporters

Car bearers utilize a low stack edge in order to safely secure and stack vehicles that are low to the ground. They use pressure assisted flatbeds that guarantee the safe transportation of vehicles.

Tractor Trailers

Tractor trailer towing utilizes equipment to quickly and strongly secure heavy load vehicles to a bed, safely transporting it to a designated location. This equipment can be easily operated by our team of qualified technicians, and quickly arrive at any scene – and they are available in many different varieties from off the street rescuers to forklifts.

Super Duty Vehicles that Utilize Far Reach Axle Lifts

These complicated and advanced towing machines have special pivot lifts that allow drivers to tow vehicles from a concentrated hub area, making sure vehicles towed do not get damaged. This towing equipment can be used to easily tow large vehicles including trailers, tractors, buses, tractor trailers, and even fire trucks!

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