Speed's "Wrecked" brings the thrills of tow truck driving in HD

Not that we usually expect to have a need for a tow truck driver, but the Speed Channel has surprised us with its new series Wrecked, focused on a company of tow truck drivers in a Chicago suburb. Speed Channel is pumping up the original content since it launched HD, and with the success of series like Ice Truckers and the recent premiere of the logger show Ax Men, we see where they're going with it, but... tow trucks, seriously? The series' ten-episode run starts off in July.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2008 4:32AM]

Call me a lifeless dork but I would watch it and surely find it neato. That is if cox gets around to adding speedhd in Oklahoma

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2008 9:18AM]

The Lincoln Park Pirates maybe? Now that would be a show!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2008 12:15PM]

OMG, more pandering to the white trash NASCRAP crowd. Speed, what happened to you? You used to carry cool programming like World Rally, and now you're reduced to this?

I have a sinking feeling that when the Formula One contract comes up for renewal, they're going to bail on it. :(

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2008 5:58PM]

Now, I don't know anything more about this show other than what was written here, but somehow I doubt it will be focusing on the tow trucks themselves, but more about the WRECKS that they are towing... such as the sports cars that crash at 90 mph. It will be for the fascination of seeing this wrecks in the same way you can't take your eyes off of a wreck on the side of the freeway... you know, the cause of all that traffic from rubbernecking?

I think this show will do very well based on how many people are eager to see what kind of wreckage there is after a car accident.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 2:48PM]

they focus on the wrecks/the family that owns it

[(Unverified) Posted May 5th 2008 10:05AM]

sounds cool cant wait to see the new series. I am a former tow truck driver and there is alot that goes on and alot to show!

[(Unverified) Posted May 13th 2008 1:13PM]

I am a current owner of a tow company in fact my company was suppose to be the one the show was about. should be interesting to see the way they went. i beleive it will focus on the twoing and family run adleast thats what they told me when it was going to be my company. any info on the compny produceing this show?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 8th 2008 9:57PM]

The parents Jack & Gail Gratzianna owned O’Hare Towing & Recovery also known as O’Hare Truck Service back in the early 70's. Jack always had the best equipment, as the company still have today. Jack Gratzianna alway needed the biggest and the latest greatest tow trucks that money could buy. Size was most important everything from all wheel drive to as may axles that where legal. Jack always thought BIG. As a guy in the same business back then, I never was able to keep up with O’Hare Towing.
I personally know the danger of being a tow truck driver. Because back in the winter of 1973 O’Hare Towing lost one of there drivers to a hit and run UPS driver. He got caught because a witness to the accident read an ad that I placed in the newspaper in Minnesota. UPS inspected all the trucks that travel that route that day and found part of Joe's uniforn still attached to the right front spring assembly. I hope the show does well. Jack & Gail were good friends and I know they would be proud of what there children have done. Keep up the good work Bill
NICE TRUCKS