Portland Heavy Towing

08/25/2026

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08/03/2026

Today everyone threw me a Surprise birthday party at the shop! !
Thank you everyone!
Without friends like you this business wouldn’t exist! I appreciate you all.

08/01/2026

New summer t shirts arrived….. two months late
!
cause George can’t order them until its a 100 degrees and he realizes he needs new thin shirts.

So here they are in Aug ! Let’s hope
It’s a late summer cause these are extra thin shirts.

07/13/2026

Here is a sneak peak of a truck I been working on for two years on the side.

Keep in mind this is on the side of working full time towing, then I built a cascadia and a kenworth w900, in between. Not to mention all the other trucks I’m working on in the yard.
So this project has been slow going.

But thanks
To some good friends who came to help on their spare time, I have been able to get to this point. Joe, Larry, John, Peter, Chris and myself all had a hand in this job at one point or another.

For reference,
The truck was found in a back yrd after sitting for 20 plus years.

This was stripped down to the bare frame, engine and cab. Then rebuilt from scratch. All new wires, air lines and interior. Everything was gone thru and inspected , repaired or replaced all together.

The engine itself , the tranmssion and diff rentals are factory and in excellent shape.

So the internals components of those are left alone other then paint and servicing them.

There are many parts on this truck that didn’t need anything. So they were left alone.

…this is why I choose this truck to rebuild over other trucks I seen.

Not to mention , I got this truck in exchange for the tow bill. The customer wanted it scraped. I said I’ll take it for free and gave him 3 free tows for other units going to scrap.

He agreed and here we are.
I originally was going to just service it and use it as a yrd truck to move trailers.

But thanks to one of my son’s friends not taking no for an answer , we started working on it. Joe is in his 20s and he never seen anything like this on the road and wanted to drive it. He asked if we can make it drivable.

Next thing you know we kept adding to the list of things to replace or repair

The list is slowly getting crossed off. One step at a time.
No telling how many hours of labor we have in to.

As for money , it was built with many spare parts I had laying around the shop.
Stuff I would have Probaly never used anyway. Some paint supplies bought off the miss match paint section and prep materials. The biggest bills was for tires, wheels and been blasting. That alone was over 5 figures all together. But the rest was done in house for the most cost effective way possible.

07/05/2026

July 4 - The Declaration of Independence: The Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration in Philadelphia, declaring that the thirteen colonies were now a new, independent nation.

Two hundred and fifty years ago TODAY (1776) was dominated by the American Revolution. The Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain, officially adopting the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, and setting off a war that forged the United States

Happy birthday to a great nation and also George’s grandma ! Yes!
She shares a Birthday with America!

Let’s wish Mica a happy 90th birthday today!

06/11/2026

Warning !
Be on the look out for dangerous guard dogs!
Do to recent crime waves : we have hired a top tier gang of guard dogs! They are highly trained and skilled at their job! They are very dangerous and to be taken seriously.
Walk on the lot at your own risk!

04/04/2026

Well folks. Here is your public service announcement !

History is in the making!

For those who don’t know me personally , I have been involved in trucking, and truck towing in some way or another, most my adult life.

So, I seen some high fuel prices and changes in freight rates , But this is an official record!

8$!!!! A gallon. (A friend sent me this picture today).

Here is some context : Most trucks get 5-6 mpg loaded!
Then you have to pay state mileage tax for the big trucks. Then it a drivers to drive the truck, a mechanic to fix it and pay for the truck itself and the trailer!

With that said : I warn you folks now: stock up on what you can afford cause these costs will get passed down to the consumers at the check out!

What you pay today for food and goods will go up dramatically in the next few months. Maybe even weeks.

The side effect of high prices on pre negotiated rates at the start of the year between shippers, product producers and trucking companies will all have to be REnegotiated like they did during covid.

Trucking companies will ask for more money, shippers will try and resist and freight will sit, in turn trucks will sit until the rates get settled.

I will expect to see shortages on certain things iF this keeps up and major price increases on what’s on the shelf.

And if fuel is not bad enough ….
the purging of the trucking freight hauling sector will create and demand for drivers.

A true demand. Not like the demand of the past where it was really a shortage of drivers willing to drive for peanuts. This next shortage of cdl drivers will be the real deal!

That will also increase rates for shipping.

This will be very interesting to watch how it plays out. It will be musical
Chairs , survival of the fittest and hunger games all rolled into one big game and the no matter who wins the consumer will pay at the pump, the check out at grocery stores and everything else hauled by trucks to you. Which is everything incase you didn’t know!

Let the games begin!!!

01/01/2026

Happy new year to you all!

12/25/2025

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas to you and yours!