One last story to tell and I'll quit. I'm enjoying the trip down memory lane
The first ups "rescue" I did was in my own yard. One day my son and I were outside working on something in the yard and we hear the ups truck coming up the driveway and by the sounds of it they are spinning tires a good bit. We can hear the motor revving and the tires spinning. My son is like "why all the spinning its not that bad today" and I told him it must be a new driver. That said the driveway there isn't the best in the world as the water table is pretty much right at the surface so the driveway was always loose or muddy to some extent no matter what.
Anyways the driver makes it to where the driveway opens up into a circle that goes around the house and slides to a halt and goes to backup and buries the rear end of the fully loaded ups truck into the muck that's off to one side of the yard.
She gets out and starts crying. This lady looks like she's 16 years old at the most but its because she's under 5 feet tall.
Turns out this is her first day on the job and she just knows she is going to get fired. I told her to calm down and for her to get whatever she is delivering from the truck while I get my truck to pull her out.
When I get back around the house and start hooking up to her truck she starts crying again. I'm like what's wrong now. Apparently she thought because of what I chose to pull her out with that I was either making fun of her or that she was doomed since there was no way an s10 blazer was going to pull her out.
I told her to calm down and to get back in the truck and that if the s10 didn't work I had larger trucks and even tractors I could get her out with. I told her to just sit in the truck and turn the wheel and to just put it in neutral.
The little s10 is posi and a perfect center of gravity plus killer tires so it wasn't a big deal pulling her out. I don't even think it spun any. I pulled her out the highway and when I got out of the truck and had disconnected the tow strap she leaped out of the ups truck (you had to of been there to fully appreciate the "leaped out" part with her being so short) and ran across to me and jumped into the air and wrapped around me like towel. She's hanging on the front of me yelling thank you thank you over and over again. My son is standing there with his mouth hanging open.
After she finally calmed down she kept telling me how I saved her job since she was determined they would fire her if she had of had to call the tow truck. I told her no problem and gave her my number to call if she got stuck again.
Which for her worked out well since about a year later she rolled a truck over on its side on a baaaad dirt road she had no business being on but dispatch forced her to use it. I was able to sit it back on its wheels with no damage using one of my larger trucks.
I imagine that's how word got out about me "rescuing" trucks which snowballed from there.
