Sentence examples for of the towing from inspiring English sources

The tow rope normally used is about 200 feet (60 metres) long with a steel ring attached at each end, fitting the tow hooks of the towing vehicle and the glider.

"I won't say the language you might use, but you say, 'What the hell happened to my car?' " David M. Frankel, the city's finance commissioner, said of the towing system.

A boom that runs the length of the towing tank can drag models at up to 100 feet a second, or 70 miles per hour -- the equivalent of up to 400 miles per hour accounting for scale.

"Odds are," said Harriet Cooley, the executive director of the Towing and Recovery Association of America in Alexandria, Va., "car drivers don't consider what kind of tow truck to call, what kind to refuse or how they will be charged".

After its largest customer, the New York Trap Rock Corporation, a producer of crushed stone, bought Cornell in 1958, Mr. Spangenberger remained in charge of the towing operations, which continued to be called Cornell Steamboat.

They drive one complete circuit of the bridge at least once every half-hour, riding the endless loops in a bright yellow truck labeled "Bridge Patrol," and packing the tools of the towing trade: cellphones, Thruway radios, work gloves and a sense that what they do really matters.

Fortunately, the cab of the tow truck was toasty.

The driver of the tow truck, a civilian member of the Police Department, was not injured.

At the end of the evening writer hears over the radio that one of the tow-trucks has stalled and will have to be towed.

Our little adventure ended an hour or so later, after we tracked down the location of the tow lot and retrieved our car.

As my mother and I rode home in the cab of the tow truck, I wondered if my father had been watching over us, keeping us safe.