Tuesday night members of the Flatlanders Jeep of West Texas club worked together to help free a Dodge truck severely stuck in the mud. 

The truck was stuck on County Road 7500 off south University Avenue. Heath Johnson, the club’s organizer, said it took seven Jeeps to pull the truck out of the mud. 

“You know these Jeeps,” Johnson said. “While they work great and can go pretty much anywhere we want them to, you know they don’t weigh a whole lot. So when we have to do a really heavy extraction you know it takes several of us and we will chain each other to each other to gain the traction and to gain the weight to get the job done.” 

Johnson said there are several hundred members of the group here in west Texas and they are not all Jeep owners. 

The club, which can be reached on their Facebook page, have been summoned during the rain, snow and ice. Johnson said many drivers are just inexperienced. 

“You see a dirty, muddy road that’s got water on top of it and you think that may be a fun choice to go play on,” Johnson said. “You don’t know how deep the bar ditches are, you don’t know how deep the water is, you don’t know what is under that water. And that is normally what causes people to get stuck or get in trouble is not knowing what is underneath what you are getting into.”
 
Johnson said most of their rescues happen out in the county on dirt, gravel and caliche roads. Although, he said they have rescued some cars in the city, when they get into high water or slide into railings.