SILVERTHORNE, Colo. — When you work towing cars and trucks on I-70 and on mountain roads, owner of Mountain Recovery Charlie Stubblefield says you see a lot of action and a lot of drama.
“We have the most incidents per interstate mile of any interstate in North America,” said Stubblefield. “It's action packed for sure.”
Drivers do a lot to keep traffic flowing. Towing cars, trucks and big semis in some of the worst weather, on some of the most dangerous stretches of road and even once recovering a modular home that had slide down a hillside.
“It’s fun. It’s exciting. We run into all kinds of stuff,” said Stubblefield. “People going off the edge, people crashing, we help out with patient care all sort of stuff, it's action packed.”
This might be why producers called asking if film crews could follow drivers with Mountain Recovery for a new TV series "Rocky Mountain Wreckers."
“We are in the middle of a three-month shooting process and the show is set to air in nine months,” said Stubblefield. “It will be ten 60-minute episodes. It’s following us and two other towing companies in Wyoming and Utah.”
“We have a lot of good characters this year with Big John and Bad Grandpa and Danger Ramos and Little Arron.”
The show will highlight the dangerous work tow truck drivers do to keep traffic flowing on I-70, but it will also try to show how drivers can be safer when on mountain roads in the winter.
“When should I chain up? What kind of vehicle should I rent from my rental company when I come to a ski vacation? What kind of tires should I have? How should I operate in the mountains? What kind of space as far as responder move over slow down?” said Stubblefield.
The show will air on the Weather Channel and Discovery Canada sometime in the fall.
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