My Baby
Star of the Fleet By Jim “Buck” Sorrenti
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Jim “Buck” Sorrenti, a longtime editor of American Towman, has been our field editor for the past 10 years. He is a freelance writer and photographer with more than 40 years of experience covering motorcycle, hot rod, truck and towing culture. He writes weekly for TowIndustryWeek.com.
onnie Woolard started Woolard’s Automotive Towing and Transport, located in Washington, North Carolina, in 1976. The company is family owned and operated by Donnie’s son Mike and Mike’s wife Janet. Mike has worked in the business his entire life and took over running the business in 2003. Woolard’s offers accident recovery, cleanup, 24 hour towing, a diesel truck repair center with an 8-bay service garage and a well-trained staff of operators and mechanics. They also offer towing and hauling services for both local and long distance projects and provide escorts for over-sized loads with an assortment of trailers capable of hauling equipment from forklifts to dozers and cranes. Their fleet of heavy- and mediumduty wreckers can tow and/or recover any size vehicle. It consists of four heavy tandem rollbacks, two Landolls, three detach lowboys, one service
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This truck’s ability to
rotate 360 degrees allows us to work from all sides without needing more than one lane.
truck, one ERT (emergency response truck equipped with air cushions etc.) and the awesome twin-steer rotator featured here. This beauty is a 2016 Century 1150 50-ton five winch rotator mounted on a 2015 Kenworth T600 twin-steer powered by a 550 Cat with an 18-speed Eaton trans.
