Tow Truck Bodies also known as wreckers, are designed to tow, recover, or transport a disabled, illegally parked, or abandoned motor vehicle or a vehicle which has been involved in an accident.
These are equipped with either a towing device or a combination of towing and recovery devices.
Based on towing capabilities, wreckers are classified as light-, medium- and heavy-duty.
| Light-Duty Tow Trucks are equipped with a wheel-lift or under-lift system with lifting capacity ranging from 3,000 lbs. to 5,000 lbs. Some light-duty wreckers are self-loader units—referred to as self-loaders, snatchers or auto-lifts. These units have automatic wheel-lift hook-up devices which allow operators to engage a disabled or unattended vehicle without leaving the cab. Such units are used to repossess vehicles or move illegally parked vehicles. |  |
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Medium-Duty Wreckers feature a boom with a retracted rated capacity ranging between 24,000 lbs. and 50,000 lbs., one or two power-operated winches with a minimum total pull capacity of 20,000 lbs., and a wheel-lift or under-lift, with minimum lifting capacity of 6,500 lbs. |
| Heavy-Duty Wreckers are equipped with a boom assembly with a minimum retracted rated capacity of 50,000 lbs., two power-operated winches with a minimum line-pull capacity of 25,000 lbs. each, and a wheel-lift or under-lift system with a minimum lifting capacity of 12,000 lbs. Booms in heavy-duty wreckers can be fixed, slide-in or rotating |  |
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