"It took me a couple of minutes but I finally got my phone out. He says he normally leaves it in his tow truck but this time it was on him – with only 2% battery life. Pickering was able to reach his phone out of his pocket. He wasn't sure what to do until he got an answer after praying: He needed to help himself. "I started screaming for help, but nobody was hearing me besides two dogs and they started barking, but they were trying to warn people and I started praying." "I started throwing up, started gasping for air, and I thought I was going to die," he said. Next thing he knew, his back was pinned up against one of the front tires and he was getting crushed by the cab. "Usually it has a thing that catches it, a bottle jack, and I am not sure if it wasn't there or if it didn't catch it, but it just started falling on me." I got behind the wheel and inside the engine I unlocked the safety latch for it," Pickering explained. "It had the cab up on the garbage truck and I was trying to shut the cab so I could tow it. The 28-year-old has been a tow truck driver for seven years and works for Sunkiss Towing and Lindsay Truck & Towing. The incident happened on Tuesday near North 3700 East in Jefferson County early afternoon. I was going to be dead out in the middle of a field and that was my life," Pickering told. "Honestly, I thought that was it, underneath the garbage truck.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Tyler Pickering was being crushed by a garbage truck for 10 to 15 minutes before he was able to reach into his pocket for his cellphone and call for help.
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