Trucking Hell
Super-sized transport jobs require even bigger trucks to perform them. Lifting the lid on the heavy recovery business, featuring industrial strength trucks capable of towing and lifting the biggest and heaviest machines on the nation's roads.
Episodes
A 44-tonne truck carrying food catches fire and the cargo keeps reigniting.
A trailer carrying gym weights rolls over a roundabout and needs heavy recovery vehicles.
A lorry breaks down on a busy section of the M25 with a major oil leak and a fire risk.
A stranded lorry must be removed from a busy street before rush hour begins.
A frozen food truck crashes into a ditch, but the driver and the keys are missing.
A vehicle stuck on the A10 means a recovery amidst busy and dangerous traffic.
A sinkhole traps a tanker; a car crashes into a ditch; a lorry breaks down.
A coach that has crashed into a hedgerow requires some creative thinking to get rescued.
A coach that has driven off the road into a hedgerow needs to be rescued before rush hour.
Two trucks need rescuing when one got stuck trying to pull out the other.
A slide bed loses two wheels and a lorry gets stuck in the mud.
A 44-tonne artic verges off a country lane and gets tuck in the mud.
A lorry rolls over on the edge of a roundabout and a truck with blown suspension.
A serious blaze leaves an eight-wheel sewage tanker stricken in a layby on the busy A1 motorway just north of Grantham in Lincolnshire.
Lantern recovery op Steve is on his way to a risky roadside rescue. A 38-tonne mail lorry has taken doorstep delivery to another level by crashing on a London street.
A frost in Warwickshire makes a country lane as slippery as an ice rink, causing a road sweeper to slide into a ditch. The weather also causes problems for recovery op Stephen.
An 18-wheel trailer carrying two modular buildings catches fire in the early morning, closing three lanes just before rush hour, and an 18-tonne lorry smashes into a tree.
Lantern recovery op Merrie faces a dangerous challenge when a 20-tonne drinks lorry gets grounded on a boggy verge, and then becomes entangled in the overhanging branches of a tree.
In Hertfordshire, Sean tries to shift a tractor unit and trailer fully laden with 27 tonnes of wood, after it left a busy section of road and toppled over into a muddy ditch.
An artic lorry stacked full of bed frames and mattresses has careered off a busy Lincolnshire A-road into a dry stone wall and is now lying in a ditch.
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