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Would you pay to have a tow truck/wrecker hired by the event to be a sweep vehicle?
If you find yourself going too fast with not enough road, you too might need assistance. If you're unfortunate enough to do this where there are large trees or a downhill embankment, you will probably need something more than what the volunteer sweep vehicles can offer. If you've been there, you know your on your own to find such help. At a rally like STPR, where this could happen late at night (ie. stage ten = 2:00 Am) It's quite difficult & expensive to get this service. Leaving your car in the woods for the night with the growing number of excited rally fans, you're best to collect your toys as soon as possible if you don't want to be missing lights, wheels, etc.
What would it take to hire a local truck to be part of the sweep team?
I had the opportunity to meet one such local service man (in Wellsboro, PA of course) who thought it would be cool.
Would you pay an extra $10 at registration to guarantee you had a heavy wrecker on hand? At STPR, with 120 entries, that would give $1200 to a driver to hire him for the day. Don't you think there are local tow truck drivers who would do this?
If you drove clean and didn't need the help, go find the guy that did, and have him buy you a beer.
Jonathan Bottoms
PGT #916
If you find yourself going too fast with not enough road, you too might need assistance. If you're unfortunate enough to do this where there are large trees or a downhill embankment, you will probably need something more than what the volunteer sweep vehicles can offer. If you've been there, you know your on your own to find such help. At a rally like STPR, where this could happen late at night (ie. stage ten = 2:00 Am) It's quite difficult & expensive to get this service. Leaving your car in the woods for the night with the growing number of excited rally fans, you're best to collect your toys as soon as possible if you don't want to be missing lights, wheels, etc.
What would it take to hire a local truck to be part of the sweep team?
I had the opportunity to meet one such local service man (in Wellsboro, PA of course) who thought it would be cool.
Would you pay an extra $10 at registration to guarantee you had a heavy wrecker on hand? At STPR, with 120 entries, that would give $1200 to a driver to hire him for the day. Don't you think there are local tow truck drivers who would do this?
If you drove clean and didn't need the help, go find the guy that did, and have him buy you a beer.
Jonathan Bottoms
PGT #916