HARRISBURG, Pa.—The International Towing and Recovery Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has a memorial wall in remembrance of the 556 tow truck operators who have died in the line of duty.
Among them is David Duchnik Jr., who grew up riding in his father’s tow truck in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
“When he got his driver’s license, he started driving the tow truck by himself. He said he would never do anything else ever,” his father, David Duchnik Sr., 64, told The Epoch Times.
Father and son often worked together, and that is what they were doing early in the morning of Aug. 4, 2016, the day after Duchnik Jr.’s 29th birthday….