Five years ago , after a 18" snow fall one of our one ton trucks caught fire and burned all the way to the ground. I was plowing a parking lot across town and a friend of mine stopped to tell me he heard on his scanner that a truck was on fire at one of the accounts that I plow. It took me around 20 mins. to get there, the entire time I was hoping it was nothing serious, while when I got there one large fire engine was leaving and there were about 3 other fire trucks, police cars, ambulence, town highway trucks and alot of curious on lookers. When I got there the driver was in shock but was at least not hurt, and all he said was that he heard a loud bang and the hood blew open and the engine basiclly exploded. I had to call the garage I use to come and tow it away, when the tow truck got there he was unable to tow it because it was still in four wheel drive, so I had to get in the still smoldering truck and try and find the 4x4 shifter and take it out, was unable to find it so we had to take the driveshaft off to tow it. Needless to say in that same storm one of my other trucks broke down and I was only down to 2 trucks thank god that I have friends with plow trucks they helped me out. It was a very bad weekend, but about a week later when I found out how much the insurance company was giving me for the truck I auctually made out better than if I kept the truck. The only hard part was finding a 4x4 plow truck in the middle of the winter. I hope I never have another storm like that. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong, but in the end we finished everything with a few complaints and no one got hurt.Just My two cents