Ice Road Res-Q Tow... The Calm Between the Storms Sorta' 

Ron Thanks for the Treat...God Bless You and stay safe. It surely looks cold ..I Love it when you talk to yourself...LOL.

Well , if people would remember the saying " no zoomy zoom on the slicky slick or you will go boomy boom in the ditchy ditch and you will be waiting for the towey tow in the cold snowy snow " , it wouldn't be that bad .

I love the driving part, it makes me feel like I’m there with you. 😁

Love the driving part. Keep up the great work !

14:30 LoL "It'll be the only BMW sittin in the middle of County Road 214" I almost choked on my coffee when I heard that 😂

Poor Ron getting really roughed up by all this. Could definitely tell you were getting tired when you drove off, then pushed the brake button a 2nd time while already rolling pretty well. Just going through the motions. My prayers for your safety out there.

Great job. Great video today can't wait to see ur next videos. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work Roy Tow On. God Bless.

Appreciate the video Ron and thanks for the ride along with you to see the countryside. Something we don't see here in the city. Looks peaceful... Nice to see what your world looks like...! Glad to see you have your chains and rock salt too btw...

Cool, A Tuesday video. Stay safe Ron and family team.

The stress alone having to be on your p's and q's the whole time dealing with the ice. I've mention it before snow and ice I avoid at all cost. I make sure I have sufficient supplies before the weather upsets and stay clear of driving until Mr. Sun melts the snow. My prayers go out to you and your crew at MidWest. All of Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas has had a brutal February. If I think about past winters I usually have our coldest temps in February and end up with frozen pipes in my kitchen for about 18-20 hours.

Scott, I was pleased to see how carefully you eased down that icy hill. I was born and brought up in New England. It’s always the down side of the hill that gets you when it’s slippery. So many people think because they have 4wheel drive and antilock brakes that they don’t have to be careful. Wrong! There are places you just don’t even want to try going down if it hasn’t been salted or sanded.

Ron thank God this world has people like you i wish more people would have the love and compassion like you. Thank you for all that you do.

Love the driving to - and driving back from the scene parts. Also your seizure warnings are GREATLY appreciated. Love the videos keep them coming !!

Dang Mr.Pratt you are awesome on backing anything,great job

Love watching your videos, amazing job you all Do

"This doesn't look promising." Au contraire...it does indeed look promising. You just don't like what it promises. (Me either.)

Stay Safe Ron. Hope You Have A Wonderful Rest Of Your Day Ron. God Bless.

I’m 51 and this storm was the worst thing I have ever seen thank god my family is safe...Benton strong...

Haven't seen ice on roads like that since I left Rome, NY. Average winter temp was 40 Below there. Be careful and stay safe all of you.

Yes I noticed. And you are very good at it

I love your videos, from South Africa

Thanks for sharing another frosty recovery with us today Ron.. I'm surprised the BMW was still sporting those low profile fat shoes it was wearing considering the weather and conditions...

You should not be allowed to be out in the middle of nowhere by yourself. Thank you for sharing. God Bless.

Better then a middle of the night, between 2 blind hills, in the middle of an ice storm, on iced over roads recovery

I like the views it lets me see a lot of your area and state I’m trapped in New York so it lets me travel without leaving my house

A extra Ron Pratt video heck yes

Good Morning My Good Big Bro Ron Pratt Sir & God Bless You & All Of You're Whole Family & I'll Be Praying For The People & You All You're Whole Family Also

A nice treat on a Tuesday, thanks Mr.Pratt!

You have to love your job as this is plain hard work.

I like the way you through your equipment around. Lol

As usual, great job and you’re entitled to an easy one from time to time.

Sitting here in sunny Australia thanks for showing us how “the other half lives”. When you placed your camera onto the tray back to crawl under the front of the Beemer I’m embarrassed to say I tilted my head to try to find hook up points!!

I enjoyed the whole trip rather than time lapse, thank you, just my opinion!!!

There is no way I could drive backwards like that , I'd be " Every Which Way But Loose " ~~~~~~~~~😁

Backing up to the stranded car was a wise choice that resulted in an easier recovery. As always, a great job by Ron.

Rotators and rollback are a thing of beauty, these 2 inventions made recovering vehicles so much easier. Not to mention the millions of jobs a rotator opened up for their owners. Essentially providing a mobile crane in a compact package to an industry that needed to evolve as the trucks and trailers evolved. And that is why these 2 trucks (but mostly rotators) are so cool to me. (Also not to mention rotators just look so mean)

I always appreciate the driving sections. Thank you for including them.

Live in the Dallas/ Ft. Worth Metroplex and I remember that pike up so well. It happened on the Express Lane heading north on I-35 right next to downtown Ft. Worth. That express lane should never have been opened that morning. The expressway had not been worked by crews, it was completely iced over, and most of the cars and semis crashed into the pike up as they topped a rise, many of them going way too fast for the conditions and when they had to suddenly stop it was way too late and they piled in. I want to say there were 70 or so vehicles and at least nine people were killed. Many lessons to learn that day. State and city officials took hell over this one. You’re right, Ron, an awful tragedy!

Yea a Tuesday treat No better way than a Ron Pratt video to start a day off.

I'm with you on the automatic's shortcomings in snow and ice - always pushing the drive wheels, it is. Neutral is where you have to be for delicacy in braking!

Great reversing skills there my man :o)

Thank you for choosing us to keep you company. Please continue to be safe out there.

Thanks for the driving time stamp !

I remember driving in conditions like that when I was a truck driver doing deliveries. I sure don't envy you in times like that. Keep the great videos coming 👍. Thanks for sharing and God bless

Backing down the county road sure made it easy to get the working end of the rollback into position. Nice bread and butter recovery. Way better than having to work that pileup in Texas.

Greetings from Nova Scotia, bud!

Great video Ron!👍👍 Enjoying it with my morning tea and sausage, egg & cheese bisket. When I was driving OTR, I keep a full set of chains in the truck from Sept. thru March. More or less just to comply with the chain laws, if I need to chain up, it's to hazardous to drive. But sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do! I thought the message notification on your phone was the plush Mater on the dash but then I always wondered why I could hear him outside the trucks. LOL Stay safe and healthy to all at Midwest Trucks. Spoke at ya later, Ka moan.😎

I love your videos and love how you are very professional hope to meet you and the crew some day

I'm so thankful I live in Alabama and we only have to deal with weather like you have about every ten yrs. Y'all stay safe out there.

Ron, thank you for spoiling us with an extra video this week!! Please stay safe and take care.

Morning from the other side of the world New Zealand

Note to self: If you need a tow, take a location-enabled photo to pass on to your operator so they can make the best decision.

Thx for leaving driving portions in. Its like a mini-drive thru of Missouri.

god bless stay strong. busy is a good way to deal with these time

40min vid 🥰

@Ron Pratt, you give a whole new meaning to "back to work"!

They will for sure wear you out Ron. The BIG winter storms in Northern Minnesota would keep my trucks rolling with tired operators behind the wheel. We were lucky enough to have two back-up operators so everyone got some sleep, or at least a good nap. Take care out there Ron, eat well a d try to sneak a few naps.

Admire the backup, even reverse parking is a trial to me, much admiration Ron! God bless you brother and your family 😇🙏🇬🇧

Ron on Backing = When my Daddy, a professional OTR driver, taught me to drive, he said “if you can’t back it, I won’t allow you to drive it forward”. I will say, I can back a trailer anywheres I want !! LOL

I would need pulling out if I were to have to drive backwards 😩 good job 👏

Some of the roads you travel are so out of the way and narrow makes me wonder how you and the other guys can traverse them no less how two can coming and going in different directions at same time. Be safe out there and have transponder going just in case.

Not as straightforward as it looks. Why? Because of the treacherous conditions! Another well executed recovery safely completed. You're right, the pictures I saw here in the UK of the Texas pile-up didn't look good. The only 'good' thing about it was the amount of work available to the recovery teams, but the cost of lives will always leave a bad taste and feelings of great sadness, methinks. May God rest the souls of the deceased and bless the workers and families involved. God bless you, Ron.

I love Missouri from Belen New Mexico

Youre like Mater you like backing up LOL!

Man going through icy hills backwards, gotta give you props for that. Most people would mess that up somehow real quick.

Don't you just love how they lock up the car and take the keys with 'em... they only think of themselves, and not the guy who's there to help.

I do like the tow truck song

The joys of living on a dirt road,POTHOLES and WASH BOARDS,no matter how you drive one or the other is going to get you

Ron, you've been running hard for a few days and you're likely tired. Be careful out there. No tow or video is worth getting hurt.

Living is the back country we always carried two bags of Kitty Litter all winter. It does make a difference if you can't move on Ice.

Job well done just another day which means another dollar no matter what

I feel sorry for you southern people that have to deal with the winter weather. I wish we could have your weather up here in Northern Wisconsin where we like it.

I would imagine that the shoulder of the road would have provided the traction needed to carry the car over the next hill. Even with an ice storm, the non-paved ground would have more "give" to it (as in the case of the semi-truck rescue video 4 days ago).

Ron you folks are more use to this type weather than we are here in Texas but it did scare the ladies here at the shop thinking I was involved as I came back from your neck of the woods

even more scary backing up on a icy hill

Ron, You should ask the PD's/FD's/Customers if there's a "what3words" location for the incident, what3words has divided the world into 3m squares, it's a precise location that has a unique name for every square. As an example, the location of this job I believe is in "///endpoints.tweeted.liberty", and your shop is located across various squares, with your rotator parked at "///deprive.fragile.central". Hope this helps. Stay Safe and God Bless from God's Own Country - Wales.

What a Ron Pratt video and it’s not Friday. Good job and be safe.

Got kinda a funny story for you, I was called to assist the county on an accident, the road had a hill on it that had another road deadended into it, on the main road at this intersection there was a hill, driving a normal speed no problem, but if going a higher speed the car could go airborne, a lot of kids would purposely go that higher speed to go airborne, one night a sixteen year old kid jumped the hill, his car ended up flipping and landed on its roof spinning down the road, the measurement we took was from the landing of the car to its resting point was just over 150 feet, it had a sunroof it which shattered on impact giving us the starting point, the kid flipped over inside the car with his butt hanging out of the sunroof, when the medics got there we got the kid out and once in the ambulance being evaluated he had some severe road rash on his butt, it even ate through his jeans, his dad showed up on scene and asked his son what happened and he made up a story why he had a wreck, when dad talked to us he got really mad at his son, dad told him when his "butt" (dad said another word for this) he was going to beat his "butt" again, the ambulance transported him to the ER so the could clean the wounds, he was not driving impaired just under the influence of stupidity, he did get a ticket for failure to control and dad grounded him by taking away his driver's license for six months making him ride the bus to school everyday, when his friends found out about his injury the taunted him mercilessly, dad did say after that the kid did learn his lesson, the deputy said when he went to court for the ticket the judge even laughed at his injury

I’m from Texas. One of my good friends worked that wreck and he said the same thing.

but those jobs are the bread and butter of this industry. And all season there you see the problem.... people never put winter tires on here ... no idea why.

Those hills are deadly never know who is coming up the other way making power to climb. Nerve racking.

Even a set of 4 studless snow tires, with good rubber compounding, might have given that BMW the edge it needed. I bet it had only all-season tires on it. Its amazing what a decent tire will do, in marginal conditions. But I understand that in Missouri, one hardly expects New England weather.

I'm used to little back country roads, but that road looks more like a fire trail!

Good job Ron

Listening to you talk about being prepared for the rest of this winter, driving around east of Atlanta, I was noticing the blooming daffodils and dogwood trees, a sure sign of Spring. I hope we've dodged the winter bullet again, but it seems a little premature.

You might suggest to the owner they use a heat gun and take that bumper dent out. Plastic will just heal itself. I’ve done it. It’s spooky.

Morning from beautiful Kansas usa

Nope it’s good you backed in, cause when you say you’ll just drive in and you’ll be alright, then you end up backing out, turning around, and backing back in. I once reversed my Pete with a 30 ton for 2 miles give or take down a road just like this one and I was glad I did cause there was nowhere to turn around and couldn’t get past the casualty

Thanks for leaving the driving in for us who want it! Nice video as always. In case you don't know Ron, you can add timestamps to your description for the video. Helps those who want to skip to parts, or show divisions/parts of videos. Could be more useful when making more educational content.

Be careful Ron the road so slippery with ice.

Awesome job ron

Less excitement is fine with me. Had enough excitement this past year or so to last me a lifetime. Stay safe please.

Hello ron from south australia

Hey Ron! Love the videos! But, what are the 2 red numbers under the parking break? Stay Safe!!

Bless you for letting us know at 16:06. The voice has bugged me for years. Reminded me of a crazy used to CB broadcast in the Everret stretch of I-5 in Wa. pleading: "Are you out there? Billy Bob, are you out there?" over and over, pumping out at about 10 watts swamping the channel. FCC could not find them. On the lighter side, well and carefully done.

Nice little treat to watch while having my lunch here in the UK. Thanks for posting and stay safe.

They wanted the other abandoned BMW on that county road.

Tuesday Treat.. That BMW was in pretty rough shape .

Just another day at the office. lol

That road looks bad. You are a good backwards driver 😄.