Trucking Hell: Greatest Rescues

In the Pennines, Alpha Recovery send a crew to recover a fuel tanker that has rolled down a steep, muddy hillside and landed on its side. There is an early morning call out for Steve when emergency services respond to reports of a cement truck that has careered off the road and smashed through a fence, ending up on its side in a farmer's field.

A 22-ton houseboat has washed up on a muddy bank of the River Trent in Nottingham after storm Babet battered the UK with 70 miles per hour winds and heavy rains. Steve Kelly from Crouch and a boat rescue team have the task of trying to winch it back into the water. In Hertfordshire, rookie recovery op Euan has been tasked with rescuing a ten-ton rigid.

In the North East, Alpha's team rigs three wreckers to pull a 44-tonne truck from a ditch. Steve Kelly leads a team to clear a burning car transporter and there's a chemical spill on the M25.