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MAN: That wind is kickass.

NARRATOR: This time on Heavy Rescue 401...

My eyes are sticking together.

..biting wind...

Zach, it's all on you.

..breaks Zach.

So, I gotta take cover here. This is insane.

You can't take it like this.

Chatham performs...

..a delicate operation...

Whoa, whoa, whoa, watch your back!

..and an overturned tanker...

That's a big leak.

Fire. Fire department.

..lets loose.

Spring is just a couple of weeks away...

..but in southwestern Ontario, March is still a lion.

By morning, the storm has passed,

and the snow is already melting away...

..but the damage is done.

Unbelievable.

Fighting me way too much. It shouldn't be doing that.

On the 401, near Ingersoll,

Bear Renders is an hour deep into a losing battle...

I got a jackknifed tractor-trailer facing the wrong way,

and I got to get the front end spun around,

so I can recover it the rest of the way.

It just doesn't want to work.

Solid ice out here and nobody's moving over for us.

Icy, treacherous roads.

There's cars and trucks in the ditch everywhere.

I've done everything I can.

But as the temperature again drops below freezing,

the semi is locked hard into the frozen ground.

When I first got there, I tried the rear axle,

hoping that I could spin it around, but when I started to pull there,

it went closer into the trailer, causing more damage.

Now he's fighting with the front end

and to get the angle he needs, he's been forced to improvise...

I went to a Holmes tree 150 feet off the road,

trying to redirect the front end and get it to come out.

No, I'm gonna lose my truck.

This thing's spun around degrees and he's stuck in frozen mud.

Yeah, I can't move this truck.

Damn it.

On north America's busiest highway...

..closure...

..is not an option.

Roads are a mess.

Just to the west,

some help is pulling onto the scene...

Ross Services' lead operator, Mike Ross.

It's all or nothing some days.

Let's go have a look.

Hey.

I grabbed the front rim, trying to spin it around,

but it still wants to turn my truck.

When Michael got there, I felt relieved.

He's one of the best operators I know.

It's lifting my truck off the ground.

He had to work off the shoulder there.

It's a tough job for the one truck.

Well, Mike's gonna grab the back of the truck

and give it a little pull

and hopefully we can get it spun around.

Let's see what it does.

As Michael's pulling the back,

I'm still hooked onto the tree up on the hill,

so I still have the front axle

and I'm spinning it around to face the right direction.

OK, can you straighten your wheel out a little bit?

Lookin' better.

Yeah, I think we're done all we can do there.

They've wrenched the front axle from the frozen mud...

I gotta go and get that.

I'll tug it over another three feet, I guess.

..but they still need to direct the tractor onto the road...

Got 'er? Yeah.

..and as they re-rig, drivers are getting careless.

Get over, you stupid ass.

Idiots. Unbelievable.

On this icy road, any distraction could lead to disaster...

Other people driving down the road

are looking at the wreck that's in the ditch.

They're not looking in front of them.

They can rear-end this tractor-trailer

and cause a catastrophe.

Make sure they're even.

Turn your wheel, buddy, turn your wheel.

..and as they begin the final pull...

What the hell?

..one distracted driver decides to get a closer look on foot.

Blocks the whole highway.

This guy blocks the whole lane to take pictures of his partner.

This guy stopped in the driving lane.

We need to get off the road.

I don't know, you'd think that was common sense

that that isn't a good idea, but some people, eh?

Almost got 'em out.

Just pulling it back sideways.

Once we got the truck on the road, it felt awesome.

Holy.

Alright, we're outta here.

As the driver rolls his semi away,

the crew's next job is already waiting.

We got this guy out, but the day is still gonna be long.

90 miles down the 401...

..the final traces of last night's storm have blown through...

..and on the westbound highway near Tilbury,

one semi driver is on his way for treatment

following a bad rear-end collision.

He's in pretty rough shape, so hopefully he pulls through.

After a busy night on the road,

Chatham Towing's Trevor Girard is facing one of his worst scenarios.

The way I understand it, traffic was stopped,

the gentlemen in the rear tractor I guess,

either didn't see it, or something went wrong, anyway.

And this is the end result.

It never gets easy seeing a cab demolished like this...

OK.

The OPP's put a hold on the actual tractor unit

until they're done their investigation.

So Trevor and crew

will need to preserve the tractor as-is.

It will complicate the job...

It's a fairly big cleanup.

It's gonna take considerable time.

..but Trevor understands the importance

of finding out exactly what happened.

My wife is a professional truck driver,

so it's always in the back of my mind,

you know, if, you know,

you hope you never get that phone call, you know,

it's happened to your loved one.

Today, the Chatham crew is stretched thin.

This second axle's even knocked out, Ron.

Is it, the second one too? Yeah.

His crew is busy across the region,

but Trevor's got one veteran backing him up.

I got Ron Aarts out with me.

You know, he's been helping John for, you know,

longer than I've been here,

and I've been here about 30 years.

Looks like a lot of steel forgings.

Heavy stuff, special order.

It's on a four-axle trailer, so it's a heavy load.

I'm the last call, if John's really stuck, he calls me.

We've got the OK to begin our process on the one.

They're still investigating the truck that caused it,

so at least now we can get started,

get this cleaned up as fast as we can.

We're gonna chain this back axle up.

It took the hardest impact, obviously, so...

It's not gonna be pretty, but we'll get 'er off the road.

Just give me a little tension, we'll see if that hook will set.

They just need the axle to hold long enough

to limp the trailer off the highway...

Put a binder on that one? We can.

Beautiful.

That's got it, Trev.

OK.

Wanna pick up some of these blocks? Start swingin' 'em up there?

We have to get 'em towards the front, though, right?

Yeah, we can swing 'em right to the front.

..but before they can move the first truck,

they need to clear the spilled cargo,

a dozen pieces of awkward, heavy steel.

I wanna get it down at this end.

OK, the pin puller is gonna drop the chain,

and then slide the, uh... Yeah. Lift 'er.

We come up with the idea of using a pry bar,

so we can try and noose a strap around 'em,

but they're anywhere from,

you know, five, to 1,000 pounds apiece.

She's definitely time-consuming.

Just get outta there, Ron.

It's going through the back of your head, right?

How we gonna do this? We got two guys here.

Where's these other guys at? I don't know.

Ridiculous.

The 401's shut down.

You know, the police, they want it open

and here we've got this basically,

it looks like an explosion that's happened.

Yeah, when's the other guys gonna be back here?

We gotta do something here, 'cause we gotta get this cleaned up.

Like, it's me and Ron out here, and that's it.

This good right here, Ron? Yeah, right in there.

On the westbound 401, Trevor and Ron are scrambling

to clear scrap from the brutal rear-end collision...

Go right by that tire and that skid.

..and hoping some relief arrives soon.

There's only two of us here.

You're gonna keep working as fast as you can

and productive as you can, but you're wondering,

you know, how long before your backup shows up.

I don't know what other ones we can get under and lift.

As the police finish investigating on scene,

Trevor needs to clear the two trucks...

You wanna back up and I'll set the axle on ya?

Sure.

..but they need the tractor kept as-is.

They don't know if this guy's gonna pull through or not,

so now they want to kind of keep the actual tractor unit intact.

Are you actually doing the mapping?

No, Josh is going to do the mapping right now.

OK.

Police collect all the evidence they can at a crash site

before vehicles are moved.

If we clear the scene and want to come back later,

that evidence will be gone

and it will certainly not be admissible in court.

So if they require further investigation on a vehicle,

they need to preserve its condition.

We need to make sure that the evidence

that we have on scene is collected and maintained.

We don't want to have it compromised.

That's crazy, eh?

It lifted the cab right over the gearshift.

Today, it'll be an added complication for a shorthanded crew.

That's probably the tough one. Pull on it some more?

And it's starting to get dark

and Trev and I are going, "What are we gonna do here?"

Well, let's just keep doing what we do.

I'm still short in manpower.

I can't get an ETA on any help,

so it's, uh, it's not good right now.

Where's these other guys at?

90 miles east...

..the storm has left its mark around London...

..and on a county road north of town...

..Ross Services veteran Dave Moss...

Hello, sir.

..has been called out of retirement once again...

How much is in it Austin?

Roughly 15 to 20,000l.

..to help Austin Hutchinson get a fuel tanker back on its wheels.

Obviously you have to worry about a spill.

Where this accident has happened, it's right on a bend.

It's kind of an S-curve.

When the tanker crossed into the oncoming lane,

the driver tried to correct

and the shifting weight

of the liquid load slammed his truck over.

How much road rash did it get? Much?

I can't see it.

There's probably a certain amount of road rash

to the side of the tank.

Because it's laying flat on the road,

it's hard to determine how bad that damage is.

Want to try and maybe get one up here around the front?

We'll put one on the... 'Cause we can get frame up here.

Yeah.

Dave will pull down on the underside,

while Austin helps lift and then catch the truck as it rolls.

Come on, muscles.

And as they start rigging,

owner David Ross has joined the fight.

This is a big four-axle tank.

We're fortunate both 75 tonne rotators were available.

So Austin is working

under the two most experienced operators in the company.

It's so slippery out here,

you don't know until you start pulling on it.

These are gonna be catch lines.

Austin's doing a good job.

He's not a senior driver at our place, but he's very capable.

But as a single dad and a provider,

Austin is highly motivated to work his way up.

Do you want your mitts? Here, here.

Some days it's a challenge but I wouldn't trade it.

I don't want my hands cold on.

At some point or another, I need to step up

and take on a bigger role to fill the void

of some of these other guys

that are going to start stepping away from the business.

Hang on tight.

As the sun goes down...

You need more strap, David? Yep.

OK, give 'er a pull. Yeah.

..Austin is rigged up and ready...

That's good.

The straps underneath,

that's going to be our lifting point,

and we're gonna catch with our two lines going over the top.

..but the boss sees a problem.

I'm concerned about this pipe come into the manifold.

That manifold's the main manifold for all the valves.

Oh, OK.

They need to re-rig.

Well, let's go behind the hanger, and just onto the spring, then.

Go right around the spring in front of the...

Well... Eh.

My big operators make million-dollar decisions

and they gotta make 'em quick.

Go right here. Hm.

How about right here?

It's not something you can sit down and draw out or something.

It's right now.

It's right now time.

We'll put it somewhere but won't be there.

Either that, or we run a strap between the rims.

Yeah.

He's one of those guys that's been in the business for so long

and he has done so many recoveries,

that it's always good to have an extra set of eyes.

OK.

Alright, let's tighten these lines up one at a time.

We're just starting to take some of the straps here.

We're getting ready to make a lift.

As they begin that lift,

no one knows just how much hidden damage the tank has suffered.

Right now it's not leaking, but as soon as you twist

a little bit on the tank,

if it's very thin where it's been rubbing on the ground,

it can split open and leak the product out.

OK, can you pull on the front axle?

And as they make the first small move...

Tell the fire guys to come here for a minute.

Fire?

Fire department to David.

We're happy with the way it's coming up...

Hang on a minute, Dave.

That's a big leak.

..and then we see the leak.

On a county road north of London...

You're gonna have a big flood here. We're leaking. Yeah.

It's in the middle of the tank, that's why it's coming.

..the damaged tanker is gushing fuel.

It's a significant leak. It's pouring out pretty good.

Oh, yeah, she's got a good hole in 'er.

Come on, let's go. Tighten 'em up.

Take 'em up? Yeah, keep them other two loose.

We need to get this truck on its wheels,

so that we can get this leak stopped.

The pressure's on.

How you doing, Dave? I'm fine.

Get them lines all tight back there. We're gonna put it up now, OK?

Once it's in the air,

you're pretty much committed to what you're doing.

OK, keep going. Pull it up?

Is your boom out all the way? No.

Stick it out.

As the tanker nears the upright position,

it will be up to Austin to take over with the catch line and set it down.

You want a smooth transition.

You don't want any crashing and banging

when you got flammable products.

Just keep them other ones slack until I tell ya.

Keep going.

Don't stop. You want me to keep lifting?

Keep lifting until I tell you not to.

I'm out of red.

Hold it there, then.

Because of the product that it's in it, it's liquid,

so, like, when you start to roll it, like, it's like a bucket of water...

Get this one tight.

Keep going.

It sloshes, and you can flip them right back over the other way.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, watch your back.

OK, she's coming down, boys.

Put 'er down.

OK. It's all him.

Let 'er down on the back!

Boom down, yeah. That's faster.

There it goes, right there.

Well, she's back on 'er wheels.

She's a little bit more messy than we would have liked

but we definitely won the battle.

And with the truck upright,

the fuel has settled below the puncture.

Oh, has it?

As the truck comes down, the fuel stops leaking.

You guys did a pretty good job.

Yeah, it's not even down the ditch.

Austin did a fine job.

Yeah, and he had two of the old school people with him, eh?

It's a solid victory for two operators

at opposite ends of their careers.

I can go back home, where I belong.

I should be able to hook that there, Dave.

These guys have been in the business for a long time.

They've built a very reputable name for themselves.

Alrighty, man. OK?

Yeah.

He really tries to do a good job.

Some of the people just want to work to 5:00 and go home.

Well, Austin doesn't.

I'd like to keep doing what I'm doing,

and just try to bring as much as I can to the table

to help them, and continue to grow my own set of skills.

OK. Thanks for the help.

I'm definitely really happy to be at Ross.

It feels like home.

90 miles east...

OK, don't worry about it. Let him through.

..as evening pushes into night...

Keep 'em coming, guys!

..Kerry Schmidt and police from multiple forces

are out on the road in Etobicoke,

working to get impaired drivers off the road.

Had any alcohol to drink today? No.

Any alcohol in the vehicle? No, no, no.

Alright, you have yourself a good evening.

Drive safely, OK? Thank you so much.

So we're doing a RIDE check

and you'd be amazed how many times

we'll find drivers who have either been out drinking,

or, you know, taking something that's impairing themselves, a drug.

The RIDE is, reducing impaired driving everywhere.

Tonight, they're already making an impact.

Is this your car, my friend? A little too many to drink?

Yeah, that would have been a good idea.

Now this'll kind of sit with you for a while.

When you start drinking,

you're not able to objectively look at yourself

to determine whether or not you are safe and ready for the road.

OK, oh boy.

Yeah, this won't go over well.

If you've been drinking,

just make that decision, make that promise.

Aim for zero.

We demand and expect drivers to make good decisions.

Continuing to drive just puts themselves,

their passengers, and obviously everybody else

on the highway at risk.

And police will be out long into the night,

looking for drivers who aren't making those good decisions.

Any alcohol to drink tonight? Uh, no.

Be safe. Thank you. Drive safe.

200 miles southwest...

Traffic's backed up huge over there.

..traffic has been crawling off the 401

and onto detour routes for over six hours.

About time these guys showed up.

And with Trevor and Ron prepping to start the main recovery,

the rest of the crew has finally started to arrive.

Ah, man.

What a mess, eh? Oh, you wouldn't believe it.

Led by Chatham owner John Verkaik.

When I first come at the scene and seen what happened,

man, you just say, "God, not another one like this."

You want to go behind the cab or what are you thinking,

or just grab there? The front corner of the trailer?

Trailer get it all up? Pull 'er out.

We're going to attempt to pull the truck and the trailer up.

Gotta kind of be nice to it 'cause there's a hold on it.

They did not want anything touched of the cab,

because sometimes we take the cab off

or squeeze it down.

The tractor is critical to the OPP investigation.

So I'm wrapped around the outside of the tranny mount, motor mount...

Oh, yeah.

..but just separating it from the trailer could tear it apart.

I'm gonna put most of the force on the trailer, pull-wise.

I'll see what happens here.

This tractor itself is so demolished.

I'm unsure at this point if this frame's gonna stay together.

Sliding good.

And she's out.

Plan A worked.

Going to pull the tractor out.

There we go.

It's free of the trailer...

The tractor's so badly mangled.

..but now they have to somehow move it off this road.

We couldn't put it on our float because it was too high.

What if we take the boom and just lower it?

There's a hold on it. Yeah.

He doesn't want... He said if we can, don't.

Well, there's not much we can... You can't take it like this.

It's one hurdle after another with this wreck.

It's just, it's fighting right to the end.

Damn.

On the 401 outside Tilbury,

westbound traffic has been shut down for close to seven hours...

..and the Chatham crew can't clear the road

until they move the tractor.

You can't take it like this.

We couldn't put it on our float because it was too high.

To preserve the integrity of the police investigation,

they need a new plan.

It would have been a lot easier just to take the cab off it

but they want to kind of keep it intact,

so you try to keep them happy, right?

Hey, Jay.

Operator Jason Verkaik has just joined the crew...

Anything holding it on still?

..and he might have an idea.

You wrap chain at far enough back, then cradle everything.

Yeah, let's try it.

We're just gonna tow it in. Eh?

We're gonna tow it in.

They'll try to chain the tractor together,

so it survives the trip but the damage is extensive.

You can't tow that home, man.

The cab is right off the chassis,

the engine is hanging loose in it, the transmission is gone out of it.

Yeah, the drive shaft's ripped out of it, too.

If the boys think they can do it, let 'em do it.

Gotta give 'er a shake.

With the rigging in place...

There we go.

..it's time to see if the chains will hold.

I thought we were gonna lose the engines and all,

but then the guys did a proper rigging on it

and nothing fell.

I can get hooked up to the trailer

and then we can make our way back to town.

We're going into...

I think it's around a 40-hour marathon here,

so it's gonna definitely feel good to get home tonight.

An impossible job and impossibly long stretch of work,

is finally behind them.

That's it!

Gonna be a nice night to go home and relax.

Who knows how long you're going to be there for,

but we're gonna go home.

Just to the north...

..the next day,

the last of the storm has passed through Sarnia.

Not perfect, but better than it was.

At the Preferred Towing yard, a visitor is rolling in.

Welcome to Sarnia. Hey, Andrew.

Long ways from home. Yeah.

How ya doing, buddy? Good. You?

Welcome.

Herb's Towing co-owner Andrew Vink is visiting his old family friends,

Gary and Collin.

So I was just down there on personal business,

picking up a snowmobile trailer and, you know,

being so close to Gary,

I just thought I'd pop in and say hi.

So we got a job going on. Do you want to go?

Seriously? Yeah.

Are we bringing the new 'tator? We are.

Hey. Play with some new toys.

Play with some new toys. That's awesome.

Alright, you guys have fun. Sounds good.

These two guys are both the sons of owners,

both in the same position...

She's a beast. Man, she's beautiful.

So it's really neat to see these two go out

and do a recovery together.

It won't be a big job...

Oh, yeah. A bit more, and she was going over.

Yeah, it's pretty lucky.

Alright.

..but three other companies turned it down

over concerns of flipping the car.

We'll try to bring this side up first

and see if it wants to level out for us.

His car is undamaged in the current position

and he wants to keep it that way.

So Collin wants to lift, rather than pull.

The new rotator is ideal for the job.

This truck, you can tell it's a marvel of engineering.

Yeah, I've got to admit, I got a, I got a little truck envy.

We got it now?

And Andrew is the ideal example for Collin's own career.

I'll be your eyes on this side? Yeah.

It's looking good.

There we go.

I grew up going to the tow shows and meeting Andrew and Herb, so.

Your ass end's completely clear off the ground.

OK.

You know, we always have this kind of friendly competition.

Oh, yeah, that's good, Collin. Perfect. Beautiful.

I can relate our business to theirs.

They're going through pretty much the same phases.

Look at that.

We all have the same business model,

and always want to raise the bar in the industry.

Nice. Nice job.

I think I'll have to make a trip down to Herb's Towing

and do a wreck with Andrew sometime,

see how they do it up on the east end of the highway.

Thanks for coming along.

Any day of the week.

As the sun sets on the eastern end of the 401,

the storms that battered the southwest are moving in.

There's high winds, blowing snow.

As the weather gets worse, Andrew's father, Herb,

is heading to join his son's crew just off of Highway 417.

Andrew is off for the weekend, so I'm stepping in

and at the same time, it gives me a, a good picture of what goes on.

Looks like a mess.

He came out of the exit

and turned a little too sharp and the trailer fell into the ditch.

We've got a load of specialised soil and some fertiliser.

That's 46,000 pounds.

It's got no strength on the side, so it's gonna be awkward to lift.

Gettin' a little nippy.

As rotator op Bill Fell joins the crew,

heavy gusts are hitting hard.

Temperature's dropping, eh?

The wind goes right through you.

It felt like minus 30 with the wind.

It made it the coldest night of the winter.

OK, Bill, we're going to take the small rotator,

unhook the tractor... Yeah.

We're gonna slide it back and then we're going to upright it.

With cold like that,

you want to do it as fast as you can.

OK, Steph? Yeah?

Put a rim sling on this one and a rim sling on the front one.

Please and thank you.

Here comes, Zach.

Just after 06:00pm,

junior operator Zach Thompson arrives on scene.

Better late than never.

I was on the way back from another tow job.

The closer I got to where everyone was working,

I realised,

wow, the weather's deteriorating pretty bad out here.

OK, Zach, you're gonna go to there,

keep the front end from going towards my truck.

Herb stepping in to lead the crew tonight

is a prime opportunity for the 22-year-old rookie.

Put your, uh... Clevis?

..clevis there. and there is no way it'll come out.

Alright.

Every time he's on a scene, it's more stressful

but you know that you can prove yourself to him

and become a better operator with him around.

Pass me the hook?

You gotta go slower.

I can't, like, I'm...

Hey, stop. Stop. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Earlier this winter, when Herb supervised Zach...

Whoa.

Let me get on the control for a minute.

..the boss's patience gave out.

You don't wanna do something

and show him that you're not capable

of what you're doing.

Just like that.

Zach and Bill's first task, disconnecting tractor from trailer.

That wind is, uh... Hoo-hoo.

It's kickass.

The weather is a little treacherous.

Hoo-wee.

My eyes are sticking together.

Face was frozen, you couldn't even open your eyes.

Your nose was frozen solid...

OK, Bill, try sliding.

OK, pull, Zach.

Before Zach can even start...

I can't see my snatch block.

..he's forced to stop.

Yo, I gotta take cover here.

This is insane.

Oh, my god, I can't feel my cheeks.

On a back road off of Highway 417...

OK, Zach, just the drag winch a little bit.

OK.

OK, in.

..Zach is fighting the conditions just to stay at his controls.

So, we're dealing with wind and snow

and it's night-time Andrew's not there.

OK, pull another six inches.

Snug it more?

OK.

Whoa. Now pull.

This is insane.

Come on, baby.

There we go.

They've wrestled the tractor free but as they turn to the upright,

the conditions have taken a heavy toll.

Fingers are cold, aren't they?

Your hands are very important.

You can't have frozen fingers if you're operating a rotator.

You cannot.

OK, Zach... Oui.

On the controls.

When your gloves are freezing, you really gotta pay attention,

and you almost have to eyeball it, see how much that lever's moving

because you don't have the correct feeling in your hands anymore.

OK, Zach, very slow on your...

On my drag? Yeah.

Boom in, uh, Bill...

..and boom up at the same time.

OK.

As you turn, she'll come down a bit.

OK, perfect.

Yeah, that came over nice and smooth, man. All textbook.

The tractor was quick.

Now they're facing the trailer

and 46,000 pounds of soil and peat moss.

We can't flip it over with all the weight in it.

If we do that, we risk ripping the whole trailer apart

and we don't want that.

You want to double it or no? Yeah.

The first step, drag it onto the pavement.

Let's hope it comes back onto the road in one piece.

Bill, can you look on the other side and just make sure that the...

That we're not tearing everything apart?

It was across a six or an eight-foot ditch,

which meant that a major portion of it wasn't supported.

OK? OK, guys, whenever you're ready.

Go slow.

Yeah, she's dropping, she's dropping.

You got another six feet to go at least.

Bring 'er right tight to ya.

OK, good.

Good job, boys.

OK. I taught you well.

Time to unload this crap.

It will take at least three hours to offload

and the dropping temperature is draining the crew.

The quicker we could get the job done,

the safer it was for everybody

and the cold made it tremendously treacherous.

You ready? Yeap.

OK, let's do this.

This was the most labour-intensive wreck we've had all year,

and wouldn't you know,

it happened on the coldest night of the year.

Pretty much the workout done for the weekend.

Happy that's over.

Good job.

Now the upright.

Put a strap underneath, ready to roll it back over

and put the strap on the top here, too.

OK.

There's one strap there and one strap here.

Zach's wrecker will work from the front

with Bill on the rotator on the back end,

rolling the trailer in mid-air and setting it down.

You got enough?

And by now, they've been working in the minus 30 conditions

for six straight hours.

Finding out that we're doing a mid-air roll,

it'd be my second one I've ever done.

Zach will need to time his move perfectly with Bill,

lifting and then rolling

and the wind will make it even tougher.

Whenever this trailer's completely up in the air,

and nothing is touching the ground anymore,

it would act like a kite.

Swinging around.

OK, Zach? Yeah.

I want you to do yellow and red both at the same time

to lift up a bit and then mostly yellow.

OK.

Keep pulling slowly, just feather it slow.

Up.

You can lift on the bottom one, Bill.

Zach is attempting his second-ever mid-air roll...

That wind is treacherous.

..and the weather isn't helping.

You've got a 53-foot kite out there.

If the wind did catch it, you'd have to react pretty quick.

So hold on, Zach, for a sec.

Zach was under quite a bit of pressure.

Precision was the name of the game.

Bottom one lift in.

Zach, yellow in.

You could actually go red down.

You never know what's going to happen.

It could swing into one of our trucks,

it could put extra load on the lines, lines could snap.

So we wanted to do this as quickly and as efficiently

as possible to get it back onto the ground.

It's all on you, Zach. OK.

Hoo-wee.

You did a beautiful job, Zach.

As soon as I saw the wheels touch the ground,

I let a huge gasp of air out. I couldn't have been more excited.

I would say that was frickin' perfect.

I'm impressed.

Zach's second winter on the heavy crew

has ended with a big win...

I'm not in the office on a day-to-day base

but he's learning quick.

That's a great feeling.

She's back on 'er normal side. Doesn't look so funny no more.

It was a proud moment for me.

Couldn't have asked for a better one than that.

I think we did really good. Yeah.

And as Herb spends less time out on the highway,

he can breathe a little easier.

The heart and soul of any business is your people.

We are successful not because of the brass

that sits on the top floor

but the people that serve your customers on a daily base.

I definitely can't wait to get home,

go see my dog and my beautiful girlfriend.

It's a good night now.

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