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20 Episodes 2022 - 2023
Episode 1
45 mins
Incident Manager Steve Kelly wrestles with the rollover of a HGV loaded with building waste. A bin lorry suffers a rear axle failure in a busy London street. On a live road in Leicester, Steven rides to the rescue of a car transporter.
Episode 2
45 mins
A team tries to rescue an overturned cement mixer full of wet cement. After a week long holiday in Italy, a returning driver discovers problems in her hydraulics. In a Leicestershire river Abang goes fishing for a flooded Ford Focus.
Episode 3
45 mins
A lorry fire poses endless problems for recovery, with burning ash complicating matters further. Joe swings a crashed car out of trouble on a busy road. Plus, an overhanging tree branch damages a trailer.
Episode 4
45 mins
A tipped-over shipment of A4 paper on the A1 ends up being a tough task to take on. After hitting a bridge, a trailer's damage is too much to be towed without some sort of repair. Dud directions leave Mary searching for her destination.
Episode 5
45 mins
A crew trying to take care of a burned-out trailer struggles due to its missing wheels. A broken-down bus blocks a bus stop, with pedestrians complicating recovery efforts. Troy gets lost on a country road searching for a breakdown.
Episode 6
45 mins
Sean faces the mother of all recoveries - a truck loaded with chemicals has plunged down a steep embankment into woodland. Troy tackles a lorry breakdown causing a big tailback at the height of rush hour.
Episode 7
45 mins
Alpha Recovery join the Trucking Hell team, they have to deal with a 45-tonne crane that's become a massive pain. A rescue mission in central London puts Merrie in a mood. Rory takes time out in the great outdoors.
Episode 8
45 mins
This time, Kev battles a big bin lorry that is stranded on a remote country road in Northumberland, Abeng braves a blind bend to recover a crashed car and Aidan has a brush with a bus.
Episode 9
45 mins
A lorry has gone off the road, rolled over and now lies directly underneath overhead power lines, leaving a race against time and the light. Merrie meets the weekend head-on. Aidan has a broken down bus to fix.
Episode 10
45 mins
On the Moors, a 50 ton construction machine has landed in a stream; the team at Alpha faces a dangerous two-day rescue; on The M1, Lantern's Bohdan rescues a stranded 44-ton artic; Stuart is called to the A34 to rescue a broken-down bus. dices with death on a notorious road.
Episode 11
45 mins
A 50-ton construction machine is stranded by a severely-damaged Victorian bridge.
Episode 12
45 mins
On the busy A1, halfway between Newcastle and Durham, an articulated lorry has fallen down a 20-metre embankment. The Alpha Recovery crew must work out how to retrieve the truck with traffic thundering by.
Episode 13
45 mins
In Hertfordshire Lantern, recovery op Sean has been sent to tackle a telehandler that's flipped over in the back of a very muddy garden; to make matters worse, the boom arm is extended and there are trees covering the site.
Episode 14
44 mins
On the M25 near Enfield two lorries, two cars and a van have piled into each other, blocking three lanes. Plus, in remote Cumbria, a freezer lorry laden with frozen chips has broken down in a single lane contraflow on the Pennine Way.
Episode 15
45 mins
When a heavy lorry becomes embedded in a ditch after careering off the M1 and plunging down an embankment, Steve must work out how to free the truck whilst preventing it from falling on its side.
Episode 16
45 mins
On the M11, a truck pulling a trailer is marooned; Alpha recovery is with a motor-home that's been gutted by fire; Merrie's dicing with danger on the side of a slip road; Mark helps a van that is wedged down a muddy ditch.
Episode 17
45 mins
In Northumberland, a heavy tipper gets lost in the dark and ends up badly stuck in a boggy field. Meanwhile, recovery op Zibby gets the keys to a brand-new set of wheels in Leicester.
Episode 18
45 mins
Alpha's Kevin is with a 75-ton crane that's stranded in remote countryside; Lantern's newest op, Euan, battles through a jam caused by the lorry he has been sent to recover on his first solo call-out.
Episode 19
44 mins
Vehicles in need of recovery include a Land Rover Discovery dumped in a canal, a lorry that has lost traction on a steep gradient, and a truck that's nosedived into a domestic back garden.
Episode 20
45 mins
Alpha op Kev has been sent to a popular beauty spot to rescue a bin delivery truck that has got stuck; Lantern op Steve is sent to a scaffolding truck that's stuck in a sinkhole; Crouch op Wes has a weighty problem when a truck hits the skids.