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https://tempeaztreasures.yahoosites.com/ Tow driver advises drivers to exercise caution as winter approaches (Update: Adding video, comments from Consolidated Towing Inc. heavy duty supervisor, Robert Lee) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- With slick, icy roads and more cars on the road, the heavy duty supervisor for Consolidated Towing Inc. said he expects to be a lot busier towing vehicles. What Robert Lee did not expect in his nine years of towing, though, is the recent rise in semi-truck rollovers on one stretch of highway in Redmond. What's surprising, Lee said, is the number of semi-trucks that have rolled over or crashed on a curve on northbound Highway 97 near milepost 119. He said he knows of five semi-trucks that have crashed there just within the last month, and two only days apart. On Dec. 1, a semi- truck carrying cartons of oranges rolled over. Three days later, another semi with an empty trailer rolled in the exact same spot. Earlier in the year, Lee said, a steel truck full of m...
