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00:00Go, go, go!
00:02Another wipeout.
00:04This season...
00:05Ah!
00:06...on highway through hell.
00:07Oh!
00:09Holy...
00:09Ha!
00:10I can't believe this guy lived.
00:12Holy...
00:15She's gonna go over!
00:17Ah!
00:20Ooh, that's stiffy, eh?
00:22Whoa, whoa, whoa!
00:25Broke the hook!
00:27Yee-hoo!
00:29Hey!
00:30Whoa!
00:31Lookin' us go!
00:32Better than Mesquite Hill!
00:34Whoa!
00:35That's nuts!
00:37You gotta be a little nuts to be in this business.
00:39I don't wanna have an explosion.
00:42Get out!
00:43Hey!
00:44Hey!
00:45Troddle off!
00:46Whoa!
00:48This is what we live for!
00:50Here we go, buddy.
00:54Does anyone have a...
00:56This is gonna be more soon.
00:59Slippery section.
01:03Late fall...
01:05That's your best turn to have a bent away shop.
01:09...brings early snow...
01:12You better slow it down.
01:15...to the Rocky Mountains.
01:16It's been a long summer, and this is our first taste of winter.
01:24Jamie Davis!
01:25Running a 50-ton heavy.
01:28We're working all across the province.
01:31500 kilometers from his base in Hope.
01:35We're just going wherever the customers need us.
01:37Jamie Davis rolls into southeast British Columbia.
01:52Watch out for black guys.
01:55I think somebody spun out.
02:00As night falls...
02:02We're just headed out to a wreck that's apparently on its side.
02:07Jamie is called to a crash.
02:10Now on a week in the winter, Harry.
02:13On highway one...
02:15A tractor trailer slipped right over, and it's down a bank.
02:26Rolling in with H.R. 100.
02:28It's supposed to be just a light load, 5,000 pounds.
02:32Jamie arrives for the recovery.
02:35That's what this park here...
02:40Whoa!
02:41Looking at this wreck, it's almost completely upside down.
02:45Well, boys, she's down there pretty good.
02:48Yeah.
02:48It's brutal.
02:50That corner gets the barrel the time.
02:55Yeah, just happened
03:13Oh, no, no, no.
03:15I'm lying.
03:18Oh, no, no, no, no.
03:18No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
03:18No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
03:19So, I've seen the arisenist there.
03:23the highway, H.R. 130.
03:26I'm just headed out to meet Jamie at a wreck.
03:29With operator Rob Wall.
03:33I've done quite a few wrecks together now with Jamie.
03:37Big truck is off the road there over the bank.
03:42Must have been a good ride for the guy driving it down.
03:49The semi came around a corner.
03:54Lost control.
04:00Tumbling deep into the ditch.
04:07The wreck's on eastbound side with alternating traffic.
04:11You know, Rob, I think you've got to be facing this way.
04:15We're going to put the 50 ton on the back of this unit
04:18to handle the trailer and whatever load it has.
04:23And we're going to use the 30 ton on the front on the tractor.
04:26Are we stopping?
04:28You might, we did.
04:30This white California 50 ton is really taking the place of the
04:34rotator while it's in for repair.
04:39Last season...
04:40It was a sheet of ice.
04:43Jamie and his rotator were involved in a devastating crash.
04:48Oh, that sucks.
04:50Cab blown right off the back end.
04:52Knocking the machine out of commission indefinitely.
05:00I'm glad I got the 50 ton.
05:02It's a big, big horse.
05:04Big hunk of iron.
05:06Right here.
05:08Rob positions HR 130 in line with the tractor.
05:12You're really under time pressure when they shut down a lane of
05:15traffic because they don't like shutting it down for any more
05:18than they have to.
05:22Pull them off there, Martin.
05:24Helping tonight...
05:26Swamper, Martin Steffek.
05:28A little more, Brad.
05:30And Jamie's step-son, Brandon Codales.
05:34This is the first wreck of the season.
05:36Gonna be with Jamie Swamper today.
05:38Okay, right there. Stop.
05:40We'll get it done.
05:41Okay, you got your block now and you've got your snatch block.
05:43Run both of them down to there.
05:46This bank is steep.
05:47We'll make a path down to it, but it is straight up and down.
05:51Help him pull the winch line once he gets over the bank there, right?
05:54Go ahead, Martin.
05:56Pull some line out.
06:03Go down there with him.
06:06It's pretty dangerous being on an angle like that.
06:08That's straight down.
06:10The main objective right now is just to get it up the bank
06:13and have it on its side right here.
06:16Okay, good to go.
06:17Okay.
06:21We're starting to do the pull.
06:27And it's really working my big record.
06:33The winches are powering out.
06:36Something's wrong.
06:38You can hear the stress in the machine for such a light load.
06:43Okay, stop.
06:45You know, that wants to roll over right there.
06:48Something's not adding up here.
06:50But he said it's only 5,000 pounds.
06:51We're starting to try and get it up on the air.
07:07Let's go!
07:095,000!
07:13Go, go, go!
07:16Go, go, go, go!
07:18Go, go, go!
07:20Go, go, go go!
07:20Go, go, go, go!
07:21In the Fraser Valley,
07:31BC Highway Patrol are on the scene of a dry weather crash.
07:36This is a bit of an anomaly year for us.
07:39It really doesn't look like winter right now,
07:41but we are at the start of the winter season,
07:43and people need to be prepared.
07:47The semi drifted off the highway.
07:51Caught the shoulder.
07:53Sucking it into the median.
07:56Only held back by a high tension cable barrier.
08:02I'm amazed no lives were lost.
08:06Nobody was injured.
08:08Not even the driver of the semi.
08:11Heading to the scene.
08:13We're going to see what she's made of tonight.
08:15Reliable Towing's new 50-ton tandem, Hornet.
08:19It's a very versatile truck.
08:22It's powerful.
08:23It's going to suit us well.
08:26Flatlanders to mountain boys.
08:27Here we go, buddy.
08:29With new operators from the prairies,
08:32Jace Summers.
08:34From Brandon, Manitoba.
08:36It's a little small town.
08:38And Evan Party.
08:40Me and Jace go way back.
08:41We worked at prior towing companies together.
08:44Doing it with my best friend.
08:46Aw.
08:47We've been down many, many roads together.
08:52Tonight I'm operating our new 50-ton V100 Vulcan record.
08:57We have named it Hornet.
09:01I'm eager to see what it's made of,
09:03and what it's going to do.
09:07Oh, it's a bad day to do that.
09:11I've seen a truck and a trailer that's on its side.
09:16The trailer is on top of the high tensile cable,
09:19and it's actually cut into the edge of the trailer.
09:23Wow.
09:26Also on scene, regional manager Ty Kennedy.
09:30The only crappy part is that it's going to be hung up
09:32on that front.
09:33Well, it's hung up on that tension.
09:34I know.
09:35Right now, let's just grab this back end.
09:37Let's just drag it over.
09:39This section of highway,
09:42it's notoriously bad for big accidents.
09:45Good luck getting through this.
09:48Traffic is blocked in both directions.
09:53We got a couple fire trucks.
09:55We're just going to drag it off
09:57because we got to open westbound.
10:00Evan.
10:01You can operate.
10:01Just throw the PTO on.
10:03We'll man the controls of the Hornet tonight.
10:06The back of the trailer is into westbound traffic.
10:10We immediately have to drag that back into the eastbound lanes.
10:15Lines are rigged to the frame rail of the trailer.
10:19Half inch chain.
10:20Yeah.
10:21The pressure's immense.
10:22We have all the general motoring public watching us.
10:25We've got all the truckers that need to get through.
10:30Line one.
10:31Two, two.
10:3343,000 pounds of vegetables are loaded in the trailer.
10:38Oh, there we go, buddy.
10:41You just want to get it off that fast lane, right?
10:43Yeah.
10:47I guess we'll all just stand back because I don't know how this cable's going to react.
10:53The cable barriers are designed to absorb the energy of a vehicle and bring the vehicle to a stop.
11:01Throughout my policing career, I've seen how they could help.
11:06Now the life-saving steel cable is a danger to the reliable team.
11:12And if it snaps, it's under probably like 10,000 pounds of pressure, so it's going to go whew!
11:17And take everybody's legs out.
11:20We're pulling.
11:22This can be a very dangerous situation.
11:25Watch yourselves.
11:26If it were to snap, it could shoot back and cause injury or fatality.
11:33Stop!
11:34Hey!
11:37We're still sitting on the highway here waiting to go.
11:41In the Fraser Valley.
11:43Keep going. Try and get across the wires.
11:46Reliable is wrestling with a loaded semi.
11:50Hey!
11:52Snagged on the safety barrier that caught it.
11:55He's just pulling it right through the frame.
11:57Up!
11:58Yeah, hold on.
12:01We can't just keep dragging it.
12:02We're going to wreck the cables, rip the trailer open.
12:06To extract it off the cable.
12:09Okay, I got to back my lines off.
12:13They'll need more firepower.
12:15It's safest if we just call in another truck.
12:21Heading to the scene.
12:23Another new reliable 50 ton.
12:26Dubbed heavy metal.
12:28This should be interesting.
12:31Its lead operator.
12:32They need a little more muscle.
12:35Andy Cullum.
12:41I got a new Vulcan V-100.
12:44Try drive.
12:4735,000 pound winch.
12:49200 feet of 5-8 cable on it.
12:52Great addition to the fleet.
12:54Like a Swiss Army knife of trucks.
12:58As I pull up, I'm seeing a truck and a trailer laying on its side.
13:03It's in it.
13:0543,000 pounds.
13:06It's all sitting on the bottom wall.
13:08Right on top of all these cables.
13:10High tension cables.
13:12Be careful.
13:13I don't know what the damage is to these cables under here.
13:16Don't cut them.
13:17We're apparently, yeah.
13:18It can take weeks, if not months, to get new cables.
13:23It's like a three to four month backlog to get new ones.
13:26That means maybe a vehicle's going to break through and somebody's going to get hurt.
13:33We're going to try and lift as opposed to drag.
13:36So let's pick the back and pull it over.
13:38Okay.
13:39I'll get almost beside you then.
13:40Yeah.
13:45Vandy wants to actually pick the whole truck and trailer off the cable.
13:49And then we'll slide it backwards.
13:52One high, one low.
13:56Okay, so yeah, that's going to go high.
14:02Heavy Metal lifts its end of the trailer off the cable.
14:08The more we can get it off that line 100%, the better off we are.
14:13Okay, back away from the line.
14:15And working in sync with Hornet, they slide it off the cable barrier.
14:23And out of the westbound lanes.
14:30We're off that line now.
14:33We're off of it right now.
14:35We're releasing westbound traffic.
14:37Okay.
14:42The westbound just opened up both lanes.
14:45Now they can finally look at the load.
14:49Full of vegetables.
14:50There's garlic and peas and the whole load is on its side.
14:54It's garlic.
14:55You can definitely smell it.
14:56We have another truck that's coming.
14:58We'll unload it as it sits.
14:59Because if we drag it, we risk ripping it open and then having an even bigger mess to clean up.
15:05Fire Farm is trying to pressure wash all the diesel off of this road.
15:09Do you want his rear end right here?
15:11Like, up here though, so we can pull it ahead.
15:13Oh, because he's going to suck it that way, right?
15:14He's got to pull it ahead first.
15:16Okay.
15:16The goal here is to separate the tractor from the trailer.
15:21They'll use Hornet to winch the sideways tractor forward.
15:26Stop him there.
15:28Stop.
15:30Jace.
15:31Give it a good whip.
15:33Releases the kingpin.
15:35Now we've got to separate the tractor off the trailer.
15:42There we go.
15:52Keep going.
15:53Is it free yet?
15:55Now it is.
15:58Ah, she's off.
16:01Okay, grab two lines right here.
16:04Put one to the front, one to the back.
16:05Flop it over.
16:07The team rigs two lines from Heavy Metal to roll the tractor.
16:13Okay.
16:15They'll be, uh, flipping out right pretty soon.
16:28Watch your faces.
16:30I'mma lower it.
16:34There it goes.
16:38They'll call the boys in and they'll unload it.
16:41Get this load shifted over to a good trailer.
16:46Eastbound is still closed.
16:49Not going to be open for a while.
16:53They're pulling a wreck out of this ditch there.
16:57Six hours northeast.
16:59Watch out for Jamie Davis.
17:00Okay, stop.
17:02On the Trans-Canada Highway...
17:05It wants to roll as I'm bringing it up.
17:08Jamie's crew is struggling to drag a semi up the bank.
17:13The trucks are pulling too hard for such a light load.
17:17They were told the trailer is only carrying 5,000 pounds of cargo.
17:24So it's wanting to roll this way, eh?
17:25Yeah, it wants to come already.
17:26So I'm going to put a strap around it too.
17:28Yeah.
17:29And then we're going to rig it for a rollover.
17:31But what should be a simple recovery job...
17:35It wants to roll.
17:37...is becoming more complicated...
17:40We have a tear in the trailer.
17:42...by the minute...
17:43There's a tear in it?
17:44Yeah.
17:44I don't know.
17:46Where?
17:47No.
17:47No.
17:48They've moved it enough...
17:50See?
17:51Uh-huh.
17:52...to reveal a big problem.
17:55Oh my God.
17:56The trailer's got a hole in it now.
17:57Which one?
17:57The tree punctured it.
17:59Oh, it's pretty smashed up.
18:02Oh my God.
18:02Oh my God.
18:03That changes everything.
18:05The trailer's damaged.
18:07We're going to have to re-rig it.
18:08I'm going to try not to lift on that roof too much.
18:11So that we don't damage it even more.
18:13I don't think we can get on the top.
18:16Now I've got to think about what I'm going to do here.
18:21And I'm starting to believe now that the load is way more than what's been advertised.
18:26Way more than we've been told.
18:28Well, another thing I can do is power buckle it like on the suspension.
18:32Yeah, on the top of the suspension and get the top of the trailer coming like you're pulling on...
18:36I thought that wall would come up but it's not doing anything, just ripping.
18:40So we're going to try to power buckle the rear ends.
18:43Get it to flip over that way.
18:45Right around the wheel to me.
18:47Now pull it.
18:50So that gives it a downward pull.
18:53That's what we want.
18:57Lines from HR 100 to the trailer's frame and bogies and lines from HR 130 to the drives and tractor
19:06will initiate the roll.
19:13Should be one, two, three, four snatch blocks, right?
19:16So now, tighten this one up.
19:19Just snug it up.
19:21And I'm going to get on this side, okay?
19:24With his two heavies rigged for the power buckle...
19:27We're going to pull on the bogies.
19:30Okay, let's go.
19:32Jamie tries again.
19:35We've got big, big machinery here to pull this stuff up.
19:39You can feel the force in there.
19:42This cannot be the weight that was given to us on this trailer.
19:48Something seems terribly wrong here.
19:50The wreck isn't budging.
19:55That whole trailer's just imploding.
19:58Hang on!
19:59We're going to go down and have a look, see what's inside.
20:02This ain't coming out too easily now.
20:04No, no, I don't know.
20:06Well, it's just destroyed.
20:10There's no way that that is 5,000 pounds.
20:14No way.
20:15We're looking through the trailer and this thing's fully loaded, front to back.
20:19Now Jamie has new math to contend with.
20:24We're talking 42,000 pounds, plus the weight of the trailer.
20:29That's a lot of weight.
20:34They pulled again.
20:36We're past the point of no return.
20:40We have to just carry on with this.
20:43Go on.
20:44Oh my God.
20:49Oh, that's so bad.
20:53Can you do any more?
20:55Yeah, I can go more.
20:56Yeah, just keep going.
20:57Pull.
21:01Wreckers are having a hard time and we're struggling.
21:06No luck?
21:07Slide my truck.
21:16Oh, holy.
21:17Oh.
21:18Oh.
21:20Oh.
21:21Oh.
21:24What a frickin' nightmare.
21:29We're doing everything we can do to pull this thing.
21:34This truck of mine is winching its guts out.
21:37Nothing we can do.
21:39Just bring out what we can.
21:41I know that this customer is a good customer.
21:43I think it's a mistake.
21:45So I think they've mistakenly told us 5,000 pounds in the box.
21:53Winching is becoming harder and harder.
21:56Wow.
22:00There.
22:01Done.
22:01Just pull all the rear end right out of it.
22:03Yeah, what else can we do?
22:05The miscommunicated weight...
22:08Unbelievable.
22:10...is resulting in a worst-case scenario.
22:15We're pulling so hard, this trailer's starting to self-destruct.
22:20Yeah.
22:30Unreal.
22:31I've never seen anything like it...
22:33in my life.
22:40There.
22:42Done.
22:43On Highway 1.
22:45Just pull all the rear end right out of it.
22:48Unbelievable.
22:51Bad intel on the weight of the load.
22:55Unreal.
22:57Has scuttled Jamie's recovery.
22:59I made the decisions based on the information.
23:03Information's wrong.
23:04We had a bad outcome.
23:06Destroyed trailer.
23:08And we have cargo all over the place.
23:13Hours ago, the semi lost control.
23:18And rolled into the ditch.
23:22All right.
23:23Man, this is disappointing.
23:26I think we gotta just take the tractor out of here.
23:29And then shut it down.
23:31Yeah.
23:32I'm gonna put this down now then.
23:34Hopefully it'll sit there.
23:36We're gonna get the tractor off the road.
23:38Get it rolled over and out of there.
23:39It's a total loss anyway.
23:42Yeah.
23:43Everything off.
23:44After three hours of struggle...
23:47I gotta unhook this.
23:48We're just gonna flip the tractor over.
23:53HR 100 is unhooked.
23:56On the side, I just went back.
24:00And moved out of the way.
24:03So HR 130 can muscle the tractor over.
24:11Yeah.
24:12They'll reuse the same rigging.
24:15Full straps.
24:16Okay.
24:20Brakes are on?
24:21I think so.
24:24They're on.
24:26Okay, I'll get out of your way.
24:27Stand back, Martin.
24:32Free of the trailer.
24:35Rob starts pulling the tractor over.
24:46I think that thing's ever had grease.
24:52Pull it up.
24:59Touchdown.
25:00Yeah, take all the chains off.
25:05I got some straps for the hood.
25:16Now we drag her home, Buzz.
25:19Man, oh man.
25:20It really sucks when things don't work out.
25:24We had a plan.
25:26We knew what we were gonna do.
25:27We had it figured out.
25:29But we got thrown a curve ball.
25:31What can you do about that?
25:33But they're not giving up.
25:35We're gonna take the tractor back tonight.
25:39And tomorrow, we'll come and try to deal with the trailer at some point.
25:44Then phase three, we'll be actually picking up the cargo.
25:48It's turning into a bigger job.
25:51We'll go back, regroup.
25:54And it is what it is.
25:57I wouldn't have thought it would still be like this.
26:04There's always tomorrow.
26:11500 kilometers southwest.
26:13Trailer on its side there.
26:16A crew is unloading 43,000 pounds of vegetables.
26:22This is a high value load of garlic and peas.
26:25So we want to make sure that we save as much of it as we can.
26:32Earlier today, the semi lost control.
26:37And landed on top of the cable barrier.
26:43Yeah, we are reliable down here.
26:47With the unload complete.
26:50You're just moving it back, yeah.
26:53And the transfer trailer out of the way.
26:56Pull.
26:57Plan here is to roll the trailer over.
27:02Two lines from heavy metal.
27:05Right through there.
27:07A rig to the trailer's top corners for the rollover.
27:12Ready?
27:13Are you ready?
27:14All right, let's do her.
27:17Flip her over, buddy.
27:26Andy's trying to pick up this trailer right now.
27:30But it's just sliding all over the place.
27:34Come on.
27:36That does not look good.
27:39I haven't opened her side yet.
27:42In the Fraser Valley.
27:44All right, let's do her.
27:47Flip her over, buddy.
27:49Andy and his brand new 50 ton heavy metal.
27:57Wrestle with the last piece of a wreck blocking the Trans-Canada Highway.
28:03Come on.
28:06Come on.
28:11There it is.
28:16Woohoo!
28:18Hey, buddy.
28:21You're almost done.
28:23How's it do it?
28:25I'm very happy with the crew and the team today.
28:29One thing that I've learned over the last three years is that with the group of people on the size
28:35of our company now, I'm sure that our team can handle anything that comes our way.
28:42Hey, man, good job.
28:44Good job.
28:45Successful day at Reliable. I think, I think I got a few more ahead, yeah.
28:50It's definitely a lot of relief getting over the first big recovery, working with a new team.
28:54Let's get these back to the yard.
28:58Well, that was quite a job, eh?
29:03We did pretty well together.
29:06Team Reliable clears out, and traffic is ready to roll.
29:16It literally just opened now.
29:24Anybody else want to put a truck in the ditch tonight?
29:28But just 10 kilometers east, down the road...
29:35That's a seed train!
29:37Another truck has gone off Highway 1.
29:41He's in a solid 60 yards to get.
29:45Heck yeah!
29:47Heading to the crash in a 50-ton rotator.
29:50We had a customer with his Super B's in the ditch.
29:54Aggressive towing's Chris Mervin.
29:56I believe there was another car accident right in front of him,
29:58and he just veered off the road.
30:01Driver's okay.
30:07He's in there.
30:09Wow.
30:14Rolling to the scene in Truck 90.
30:17This is Merv's old truck.
30:20Operator Jaden Dick.
30:21Ah, I love this sort of thing.
30:23Every day's different.
30:24You never know what you're going to do.
30:26Been with Aggressive about two and a half years now.
30:29Really enjoying it.
30:30This season...
30:32Wow, that's way out there.
30:35Jaden is stepping up to a 50-ton heavy.
30:38Merv kind of suggested that I move up into it.
30:41He figured I was ready to do a little more for recoveries on my own,
30:45some bigger stuff.
30:46This is a loaded super in the Brussels throats, that's for sure.
30:51This beach range is fully loaded with wheat and grain.
30:53It's definitely a heavy pull.
30:55Ah, it's a challenge.
30:59Helping with the massive wreck tonight...
31:02A mess.
31:04It looks like a mess.
31:06...is Jordan Cumaford.
31:07At least we're not in a swamp.
31:10It's dry, but it's soft.
31:13Definitely buried itself in there pretty far.
31:16Being that it weighs well over 100,000 pounds, fully loaded.
31:20It's going to move some earth around, that's for sure.
31:25So what we'll do, took one truck to the nose of you, one truck to the middle of you,
31:29and just started trying to train it out.
31:31They're generally not meant to be pulled out this heavy.
31:35There's quite a bit of weight to be pulling out of that ditch.
31:37I think we take the nose and turn it.
31:41Like that.
31:42And we aim up.
31:43We don't want to go further down.
31:44It gets real steep down there.
31:47It's getting her moving will be the big part.
31:50But Merv is wary of another problem.
31:56Working with a live lane, we've got to keep our head on a swivel here.
32:02One brief second of stepping somewhere you shouldn't or not paying attention,
32:06that could pretty much potentially end your career right there.
32:10Wall down.
32:14What is up with tonight?
32:17In the Fraser Valley.
32:18Wall down.
32:23Speeding traffic on Highway 1.
32:26It's another wipeout.
32:28Threatens the safety of Team Aggressive.
32:32A D train of grain went off into the field.
32:36We accept the flagging to get our lane closure in, so we're safe.
32:39The flaggers are in route.
32:42We're not allowed to start any work until that closure is in, so.
32:47With traffic control in place.
32:50They're pretty much got her beat now.
32:52Merv can turn his attention to the B train.
32:56I feel it's a lot simpler if we just leave it all as one piece.
32:59And it is free rolling.
33:01I'll grab the trailers.
33:03Put you on the nose.
33:05I'm going to put Jaden and his try drive on the front of the truck.
33:12And then my rotator behind him.
33:17Okay, let's rig the pup.
33:19We'll grab around the fifth wheel.
33:26Lines from the rotator will take on the heavy trailers, while lines from the 50-ton will pull the tractor
33:34on a sharp angle to avoid the steepening slope.
33:41He actually went in on one of the lesser ditches.
33:45It's not as sharp as if we were to go down another 80 feet.
33:56So what we're looking for is for it to turn right away and start coming up and out of the
33:59ditch.
34:03Okay, let's start.
34:05Let's knock him up and let's see what we got.
34:15Both cables.
34:17Make sure you keep tension on both, right?
34:19Jaden must keep his eyes...
34:21There you go.
34:22On the ends of his winch lines.
34:25You want to share the load because we're pulling 90 degrees on them things right now.
34:29We overload one, we're bound to rip it out.
34:32Front towpins are designed for pulling trucks forward.
34:36Pulling hard like we are on almost 90 degrees is definitely can put a lot of strain on them.
34:41Keep going.
34:44As the wreck turns toward the road...
34:47Definitely seeing it now.
34:50That is quite a bit of weight, and it's buried in that dirt.
34:55The tractor plows through piles of soft ground.
35:04Pull, pull.
35:05Oh, pull, sorry.
35:06There you go.
35:10Already moving 9-0.
35:13This is where it's going to get hard.
35:15I don't want to rip the hooks out of it.
35:18We are dealing with the incline of the hill and quite a tremendous amount of weight.
35:22The massive unit is fully loaded.
35:26Ah, that's good.
35:27It wants to move.
35:29With 100,000 pounds of wheat.
35:36Okay, hold the brakes.
35:39But now...
35:41Let it down.
35:44The 90-foot B train must be coaxed into the granny lane.
35:50The front of the tractor has to come out on, like, a 10, 20-degree angle.
35:56So just turn ever so slightly to the right.
35:59We're only going to go 5, 10 feet.
36:01Slow and steady wins the race.
36:04Okay, jump in there, Ben.
36:07A swamper climbs into the tractor to steer.
36:13Boom, up, Jake.
36:14And the team can shift their focus.
36:18I just don't want to break them walls on the other side.
36:21To the trailers, tilting towards the ditch.
36:26The biggest thing I'm looking at right now as we're pulling on this thing is making sure this load isn't
36:33going to shift to the point where those walls are going to fail.
36:37A lot of torque on the axle.
36:41As pressure builds on the back wall...
36:45I'm not liking life.
36:47A crack is opening up.
36:50With it leaning, this wall could blow out.
36:52And then we end up losing this guy's load of wheat.
36:55And all his money is now laying in the ditch.
36:59But then...
37:00That's a big berm of dirt there, boys.
37:02Merv notices an even bigger problem.
37:05The passenger stiff leg for the trailer is actually burrowing underneath the roadway.
37:11Starting to catch dirt on that landing leg.
37:12If we don't address this problem, we're definitely going to be doing damage to the road and to the customer's
37:16trailer.
37:17Never adult homies.
37:19We've got to dig out that other leg.
37:21We're going to rip it off.
37:24There is a granny lane.
37:26Samber lane is wide open.
37:28On Highway 1...
37:30Heavy load here.
37:32In the Fraser Valley...
37:34Bricks!
37:35A massive B-train tilting into the ditch...
37:39That's a ball of earth.
37:41...has team aggressive...
37:43We've got to dig out that other leg.
37:45We're going to rip it off.
37:47...digging deep.
37:52It's into the pavement.
37:54It's literally that much until it's up and over.
37:57We'll put one there and it'll pull this way.
37:59It'll lift the tension off that leg.
38:01Yeah, yeah.
38:02And then Jayden can get it up on the asphalt.
38:06Lines from the rotator are re-rigged.
38:11To lift on the passenger side.
38:14Chains to the frame rails on the trailer.
38:16Run them underneath.
38:19It's re-spoiled.
38:21I've got to run a strap over top of the trailer.
38:25We're just looking to support it.
38:26Give it a little bit more lift on its downward side.
38:29He's hooked on.
38:31I'm a little nervous about that wall actually letting go on that side.
38:35So this will also help with that.
38:37It'll hold it, right?
38:42Happy?
38:43With additional support from the strap...
38:46Fingers crossed.
38:48...they pull again.
38:51Even if it's just skimming it, it's okay.
38:54Clear?
38:57Oh, yeah.
38:59She's rolling.
39:01That wall don't look very happy.
39:04I've got a little bit more to go here.
39:06There's still a chance I can blow the wall out.
39:09Keep going.
39:11Having Merv's rotator here, he's got four wrenches on his main boom.
39:14So you've got a couple different spots you can pull off of.
39:20We're looking pretty good now.
39:22Our new rigging setup saved the landing gear.
39:27And the road.
39:28Pretty much back up on the road, so...
39:31We can probably unhook you and we'll just put it in gear and drive it forward next.
39:36Hey, Wompatong.
39:38This is another one that went textbook perfect.
39:41Yay!
39:42The track's out of the ditch!
39:44That's definitely a pretty good feeling.
39:46Feeling accomplished.
39:48Oh, Jayden's good, eh?
39:49We've moved him into our 50 ton here and he seems to be enjoying it and doing a good job.
39:55The B train gets back on its way.
39:58I think we've got a pretty good crew coming into this season.
40:01Hopefully we get a couple good storms and stay busy throughout the winter.
40:05This is where we say...
40:07Yee-hoo!
40:09And Team Aggressive...
40:12Clear off the highway.
40:15What a pretty sight.
40:18Yep, that's where.
40:31Looks like it's warmed up a little bit here.
40:35The next morning...
40:37No fresh snow.
40:39Back in the foothills of the Rockies...
40:42It's beautiful and sunny up there right now.
40:48We're going to go and head out to the accident site again and, you know, we had a bad night
40:52last night.
40:54This is a job you don't get every day.
41:02Last night, wrong information from the trucking company caused a significant setback for Jamie.
41:14Unbelievable.
41:18Today's job is really just to get it ready for the unload.
41:22Now, they have to pick up the pieces.
41:27The main goal here is to get the bogeys out of there, clear a path to the underside of the
41:33trailer.
41:35I'm going to flip this over.
41:38It's in every recovery guy's DNA to want to recover things without doing any further damage to them.
41:46We take pride in recovering something.
41:49But this is a salvage job.
41:52We need to actually cut it so that we can get in and get the cargo.
41:57See where it's hanging? It's right here.
41:59Everything has forces.
42:03And everything is moving a different way and wants to go a different way.
42:07Cut that. I'll hold it.
42:10Feel like I'm in the belly of the beast.
42:12If you make the wrong decision, you make the wrong cut, somebody could get hurt.
42:18That was Jamie Davis right there, wasn't it?
42:23Yeah, he's not in a very good spot, eh?
42:28Jamie is determined to get it done.
42:33There's a lot of work here.
42:34This is a big, big job.
42:37But you just don't give up.
42:42Next time, on Highway Through Hell.
42:45Unreal.
42:46In the belly of the beast.
42:48Getting really up close and personal.
42:51Jamie.
42:52It's out.
42:53Powers through.
42:54Somebody went for a ride.
42:56Aggressive.
42:57I'm so sorry, Bertha.
42:59Sends big iron.
43:00That is a lot more truck than I thought.
43:02Into the back country.
43:05Got her.
43:05And quiring.
43:07It's a bad spot there.
43:08Feels the squeeze.
43:10Getting real tight.
43:41This is a bad spot.
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