News & Events
Safest Way to Get Your Truck Out of the Ditch
Stuck in the snow? As featured on the Weather Network, the safest and easiest way to get your truck unstuck is by using the Ditch Hitch Vehicle Recovery System. Airing across Canada during winter snow conditions, Deb Matejicka from the Weather Network reports on the use of the Ditch Hitch for getting a truck out that has become stuck in the snow. Check out the video below.
Ditch Hitch Sponsor At 2015 PSAC Stars & Spurs Gala
As a member of the Petroleum Safety Association of Canada (PSAC), Ditch Hitch proudly sponsored the 2015 Annual PSAC Stars and Spurs Gala, helping to raise over 1 million dollars to support the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS). STARS provides time, hope and life-saving transport to critically ill and injured patients in helicopters outfitted as mobile intensive care units.
Ditch Hitch Featured on The Battalion Fire Fighters Reality Web TV!
Principal Photography for The Battalion, a web-based Firefighter/1st Responder Series, starts on September 3rd with the fire department at the Edmonton Airport. This production focused on the fire service in Alberta, the filming of a segment of this series featured the Valley View Fire Department and its use of the live saving Ditch Hitch on September 14th and 15th. You can find existing video-webisodes with the Edmonton Airport Department as well as the City of Devon and most recently the City of Leduc bellow:
Ditch Hitch Feature and Cover of Oilfield Hub Dec 2014
Ditch Hitch, an Alberta based, family run business was recently featured in the December 2014 issue of the Oilfield Pulse, an operations-focused on-line magazine targeted at companies doing business in the oil and gas industry. Not only on the cover, the magazine targeted Ditch Hitch and the problem of vehicle recovery in an in-depth feature story. The article provides detailed coverage of the dangers inherent in vehicle recovery and the solutions offered by Ditch Hitch for safety getting vehicles unstuck from the snow or mud or wherever they may be stuck. The article describes the often times reality of needing to shock load the vehicle to get it unstuck.
Ditch Hitch Secures Further Orders from Top Energy Companies
Ditch Hitch®, the industry leader for safe vehicle recovery has confirmed two of the top ten energy companies in Canada have gone company wide with the Ditch Hitch System.
"Leaders in the energy sector are now more than ever dedicated to protecting their employees and reducing liability," stated Vern Sparkes, CEO Ditch Hitch, "we’re extremely pleased to have secured additional orders from these major players in the oil and gas sector and look forward to a continued relationship."
