Removing trucks could be almost 'impossible,' say heavy towing experts (Advice wellcome)

[applegrove]

Removing trucks could be almost 'impossible,' say heavy towing experts

Incredibly difficult without co-operation from drivers, say those in the field

Michelle Allan · CBC News · Posted: Feb 07, 2022 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Trucks are parked south of a police roadblock on Metcalfe Street on Sunday as a protest against COVID-19 restrictions extends into its second week. Police say there are 500 trucks in the main protest area, and towing experts say they could be incredibly hard to remove. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-protest-truck-tow-remove-1.6339652

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Heavy-duty towing experts say it will be difficult or impossible to remove the hundreds of heavy trucks entrenched in Ottawa's downtown — unless the drivers allow it.

CBC counted 40 trucks on Kent Street and 109 on Wellington Street Friday, with dozens more on other streets spread around the downtown core. Then on Saturday, Ottawa police said 500 heavy trucks were in the so-called "red zone."

Trucker Lloyd Crowe from Picton, Ont., has been parked just a couple of blocks away from Parliament Hill since last weekend, but he's not worried about being towed. 

"If you know anything about truck air brakes, once you pull that button, all 18 wheels are locked," Crowe told CBC on Wednesday.

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And they need 2000 more police officers:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/watson-state-of-emergency-update-1.6342156

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. I bet the army could handle it

Dismantle the trucks and sell them for scrap if needed.

Hold the drivers in jail until they agree to cooperate in removing the trucks.

[CanonRay]

16. I was going to say this

Don't they haul away broken down tanks?

[samsingh]

17. i bet on the tanks

[TheRealNorth]

2. Ummm

Break the window and push the air brake button in.

Afterward, impound the truck and either make them pay heavy fines or sell it.

[zaj]

4. Impossible? Yeah, that seems like a stupid concern.

[RockRaven]

3. So arrest the drivers and remove them from their vehicles.

What's the hold up?

[justhanginon]

5. How about "move it or lose it". Confiscate the trucks as a public hazard on a thoroughfare.

If trucks break down on the highway they find a way to tow them. The army can put tanks up on truck beds surely a semi cab weighs a lot less and is a whole lot less complicated. As far as trucker Lloyd, air brakes can be unlocked one way or another, the easy way or the hard and really expensive way.

[Runningdawg]

6. Set up a perimeter. Nothing in or out. They want a siege - give it to them.

When the alcoholics go into the DTs and start attacking other drivers and the rest of them get tired of the smell of their own shit in their cab - they WILL move.

[soryang]

7. it's simple really

arrest the driver, seize the keys and drive the truck away.

[applegrove]

8. Ding ding ding WINNER!!!

[sdfernando]

9. You don't even need to seize the keys /nt

[2naSalit]

20. That's the correct answer!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Dismantle them in place and dump the parts in that parking lot. Use torch on toughest bits. . nt

[2naSalit]

21. State of Georgia...

Back in the day, would impound the rigs that went really fast, like so many of mine, they not only arrested you, they would take the axles off the tractors and put it on a train back to your home state so you could deal with the costs there. I made a point of staying far away from there because I was fast runner and could not afford the cost of getting busted for speeding there.

[Girard442]

11. I'll do it. I have an acetylene torch.

May take me a while to get the job done, but I guarantee those 18-wheelers will start to look real sad right quick.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Break-in and hotwire them. Drive them to the impound. . . . nt

[LastDemocratInSC]

13. What about access for fire trucks and EMS vehicles?

I'm sure those loyal patriots will fire those big rigs up and right out of the way.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Cut or disconnect the brake lines and pressurize them with an external source. . . . nt

[PortTack]

15. They'll come up with something. Those rigs are too valuable to either let sit or be ruined

Very frustrating for the ppl Ottowa

[samsingh]

18. a daily fine might do the trick or enrich the treasury

[LuvLoogie]

19. There is always a way, but never the will...

unless you're Occupy Wall Street, or protecting rivers on native lands, or in a BLM protest.

[dem4decades]

22. Drag it out with a bulldozer, the more of the truck that is destroyed the greater incentive there is

for the rest to move them.

[applegrove]

23. Maybe if they flattened one truck with a tank or a front end loader......

they are doing construction on Parliament Hill at there are two huge construction cranes there .... maybe they could pick up a truck and drop it on the ice in the Ottawa River. Actually men around the country would like to see that bit of destruction. It would make Trudeau look bad ***ed.