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Your Business Is Our Business

heavy-duty-towingWhen you run a business that depends on wheels, any lost man-hours can be costly. If one of your rigs breaks down, you need to know that help is available and just a phone call away.  Getting assistance and the right equipment to the scene as promptly as possible is essential to your bottom line. When you call Dr. Hook, we will get your vehicle back on the road as quickly as we can, and your driver out of harm’s way. We offer emergency and scheduled service with direct dispatch 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Our services include:

Our state-of-the-art vehicles can handle any size job and our team of highly-trained professionals are dedicated to delivering courteous and efficient service. Our business is helping people, and treating each person with dignity and respect. When you give us a call, know that you can rely on Dr. Hook Towing to dispatch the best-trained, best-equipped heavy equipment towing operators in Manitoba, to keep your business moving.

To learn more about our commercial vehicle assistance capabilities, call Dr. Hook today at 1-800-561-4665 or fill out our contact form now.

New to Trucking? Dr. Hook’s Got Your Back

heavy-duty-trucksDriving a truck is a tough proposition. For the right person, it can be extremely rewarding, both financially and personally.

Even the best truck drivers and owner operators will tell you that their first days on the job were among the hardest – that they were nervous, they got lost, and made mistakes. Starting a job behind the wheel of a huge, lumbering diesel truck armed only with a logsheet, a cellphone, and some instructions and heading out into the world is daunting. Lots can go wrong. In talking with a lot of truckers who were once rookies, we’ve heard a lot of war stories. Drivers got hopelessly lost, sent miles off course by their GPS units onto residential streets where there wasn’t enough room to turn the truck around. Accidents, mostly minor, as a result of unfamiliar roads and vehicles – including knocking over a light standard and getting stuck under a low bridge.

Any driver can run their truck out of fuel, but we find more often than not it is a novice who does so. New drivers can find themselves exhausted and nearing the end of their legal driving limit when they’re miles from civilization. Solo drivers, for the first few months of their careers, find themselves adjusting to their new jobs.

Thankfully, it gets better. For the first week, something new and scary will seem to happen once every hour you’re on the job. For the next month, it will fell like it happens every day. After that, weekly. Then, one day you’ll find yourself to be the seasoned veteran, looking back with a chuckle and telling stories of the things that happened to you when you were just starting out.

Until you get there, and even after you do, we’d like to let you know that Dr. Hook Towing has heavy trucks covered. We offer all kinds of services, from out of fuel, boost service and lockout service to full-scale vehicle recovery. We service the Winnipeg area and province wide in Manitoba, call us 24 hours a day Toll Free 1-800-561-4665. Contact us online or learn more about our Heavy Duty Recovery service here.