Lloyd Sinner of Wauneta, who provides towing service and other services in a wide area of southwest Nebraska, has a new state-of-the-art wrecker that can rotate 360 degrees and is completely computerized. (Johnson Publications photo)
State-of-art wrecker only one in area
Never let it be said that Lloyd Sinner is a man who doesn’t have pull.
In fact, with a wrecker purchased about a month ago, Sinner said, he can pull anything that can be driven on any road.
The massive new state-of-the-art wrecker, the 13th truck owned by Sinner’s Paint and Body Shop in Wauneta, is known as a “rotator.” Its boom can turn 360 degrees, enabling crews to lift not just from the vehicle’s back, but also from the side and front.
On a normal wrecker, the boom is fixed in place so it can only lift from the back.
“If you’re working off of the side, or over a bridge, with these other trucks, it can be done, but it’s very, very hard,” Sinner said, requiring the driver to jockey the truck into place.
The vehicle boasts five winches, two more than on a normal wrecker.
The wrecker also is completely computerized, the first such vehicle in Sinner’s fleet. While the controls are on the truck, it even has a scaled-down version that can allow him to control the truck remotely.
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