Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Gardella, of Ormond Beach, has being towing vehicles out of soft sand and ocean tides on Volusia County beaches for two years ...

Beach vendors and visitors glad the Sand Man is around to pull them out of soft sand For two years, John Gardella, of Ormond Beach, has towed more than 1,000 vehicles "stuck like Chuck" in soft sand ...

The hapless worker had been operating a mechanical digger to replace sea groynes when it became stuck in soft sand around lunchtime today....read full article ...

DAYTONA BEACH - John Gardella, also known as the Sand Man, was under a black sport utility vehicle stuck in the sand near the International Speedway Boulevard approach, working to fit a tow harness ...