Trucking Hell

A 44 tonne Artic straddling the central reservation of the M1 is a rush hour headache for Incident Manager Steve and his colleague Pat. Recovery op Steve rescues a broken down dustcart from a busy London street. Recovery op Jim gets drenched as he risks life and limb trying to rescue a tractor. On the night shift, Jason faces a battle to rescue an articulated lorry that has crashed down a steep ditch off the A1.

Steve is called to the scene of an overturned gas tanker that may be leaking highly flammable propane. Sean is asked to pick up an abandoned scaffolding lorry that is blocked in on a dead end street, locked and with no key.

Things are far from simple for the recovery crews this week. When a loaded HGV suffers a puncture on a busy motorway, Crouch recovery op Jim Howard and heavy vehicle mechanic Jack Watson, are called to the scene.

A digger has fallen off the back of a lorry and rolled over on its side - blocking one side of a busy A road. Richard Crouch and recovery op Lee Brown have a hay bale of a time trying to get a valuable straw load on a broken down trailer back safely to its owner. Recovery op Marta earns her daily bread rescuing a stricken van load of loaves.

At Crouch HQ, there is excitement in the air as the team help to make trucking superfan Chris's wedding day extra special.

Dave and Adam are under pressure to recover a 100 tonne train engine before it sinks into the soft ground. Jim has to rescue a lorry that has become stuck in a ditch.

Simon grapples with a juggernaut that has skidded off the M62 and is leaking diesel. Rory deals with a mobile library that's been the victim of a shocking arson attack.

A luxury coach gives up the ghost on a busy motorway slip road. A straightforward job segues into disaster for Marta. Scott races to recover a damaged trailer before dark descends.

Jim must rescue a 32-tonne truck from a soft dirt embankment. Chris manouevres a skip lorry out of city centre traffic. Marta is driven around the bend trying to deliver a 48-foot articulated bus.

Jim and his team face a difficult foggy morning on the M1 when a crash between two artics causes a five-mile-long tailback.

Veteran driver Jim attends an emergency call-out to recover a lorry that has broken down bang in the middle of a busy ring road. Motor racing fanatic Merrie has a hunch she may have landed her dream job when she attends a broken down lorry.

Steve and the team find themselves in deep water when they attempt to recover a car that has crashed into a river. Jim is tasked with recovering a van that has become wedged on top of a garden wall.

Steve battles rush hour traffic to manoeuvre his recovery vehicle around the narrow roads to get to a 7.5-tonne lorry out of a ditch, while Rory must deliver a dodgy van to a scrapyard for destruction.

Lantern's only female driver Merrie is tasked with the removal of an abandoned lorry, but it is soon clear this will not be a routine job. As she takes a closer look, she discovers that not only has the lorry been used as a mobile home, but that it is housing many a guilty secret.

Rory risks life and limb to recovered a skip lorry from the M1. Jim has a happy reunion with his own truck. Chris has to find a way of separating two HGVs that have somehow become wedged together.

Jim faces mayhem on the motorway when a massive pile-up blocks the busy M1.

Marta and Pat have to pull a bin lorry out of a muddy ditch. But first they must battle their way through a thick wall of thorns.

Jim and Steve face one of their riskiest recoveries when a tanker carrying highly corrosive pure sulphuric acid smashes into the central reservation of a busy A road and overturns.

It is all hands to the pumps at a bus depot in Tamworth, where Crouch's finest are joined by Lanterns' Merrie. Just days after Christmas the owners lost their school coaches to a devastating fire and need the wreckage removed.