Las Vegas hosts tow truck pageant – PHOTOS
Heavy duty towing accessories are displayed at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Conventiongoers walk past a 1970 Cadillac DeVille displayed on a flatbed tow truck at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Felipe Madruga, 6, of Hilmar, Calif., takes a picture of a wrecker at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Conventiongoers check out heavy duty tow trucks at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Conventiongoers check out heavy duty tow trucks at the American Towman Showplace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Heavy duty wrecker is displayed at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Heavy duty, flatbed tow trucks and wreckers are displayed at the American Towman Showplace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Conventiongoers are reflected on the bumper of a tow truck at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Victor Casanova, right, owner of Casanova Towing Equipment, talks to Don Roberts at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Conventiongoers walk past a 1970 Cadillac DeVille displayed on a flatbed tow truck at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
A conventiongoer checks out heavy duty wreckers at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Conventiongoers check out a wrecker at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Felipe Madruga, 6, of Hilmar, Calif., takes a picture of a wrecker at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Conventiongoers check out heavy duty tow trucks at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Conventiongoers check out flatbed tow truck and heavy duty wrecker at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Conventiongoers check out heavy duty tow trucks at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Heavy duty wreckers are displayed at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Heavy duty towing accessories are displayed at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Heavy duty wrecker is displayed at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Heavy duty towing accessories are displayed at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Conventiongoers are reflected on the bumper of a tow truck at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Heavy duty, flatbed tow trucks and wreckers are displayed at the American Towman ShowPlace trade show for towing services at South Point hotel-casino on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
The American Towman ShowPlace convention ran Wednesday through Thursday at South Point, south of the Las Vegas Strip.
About 3,600 tow business owners attended, show organizer Henri “Doc” Calitri said. Among the 170 exhibits were $500,000 heavy duty rotators as well as smaller wreckers and car carriers.
This was the show’s sixth year in Las Vegas.
Contact Wade Tyler Millward at (702) 383-4602 or wmillward @reviewjournal.com. Follow @wademillward on Twitter
