
The series
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
Season 2 · 20 episodes · 2019
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Episode 13 Jan 20191h 0m
Episode 1
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 drench…
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Episode 210 Jan 20191h 0m
Episode 2
Incident manager Steve is called to the scene of an overturned gas tanker that, while Sean is asked to pick up an abandoned scaffolding lorry
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Episode 317 Jan 20191h 0m
Episode 3
Recovery operation Jim and heavy vehicle mechanic Jack are called out to help a loaded HGV with a puncture, and a fuel tanker is stranded in an SOS bay on the M25
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Episode 424 Jan 20191h 0m
Episode 4
A road in Leicester is blocked by a 26-tonne digger, while rescue specialists Richard and Lee have the unusual job of retrieving a load of straw from a broken down trailer
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Episode 531 Jan 20191h 0m
Episode 5
A 40-tonne lorry overturns and spills its load, forcing a major road to close. Meanwhile, heavy recruit specialist is called to recover two crashed cars from the side of the M69
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Episode 67 Feb 20191h 0m
Episode 6
Father-and-son duo Dave and Adam try to recover a lorry transporting a 100-tonne train engine, while rookie driver Warren has to move a HGV on the busy M1
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Episode 714 Feb 20191h 0m
Episode 7
The Crouch team deals with some monster jobs, while Simon and his crew have to grapple with a juggernaut that has skidded off the M62 and down a steep bank
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Episode 821 Feb 20191h 0m
Episode 8
A luxury coach breaks down on a busy motor way slip road, and recovery operative Jon is on hand to try and tow the vehicle amid heavy traffic and misty conditions
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Episode 928 Feb 20191h 0m
Episode 9
A huge 32-tonne tipper truck has slid down a dirt embankment and is lying on its side, and a lorry stuck in reverse severely blocking traffic in Leicester city centre
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Episode 107 Mar 20191h 0m
Episode 10
Crane operator Nick is called out to a particularly unusual job on a recycling plant. Meanwhile, recovery operative Jim faces a hazardous callout
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Episode 1114 Mar 20191h 0m
Episode 11
Jim and his team face a difficult foggy morning on the M1 when a crash between two artics causes a five-mile-long tailback
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Episode 1219 Mar 20191h 0m
Episode 12
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.
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Episode 1321 Mar 20191h 0m
Episode 13
Steve and his team attempt to recover a car that has crashed into a river, while Jim is tasked with recovering a van that has become wedged on top of a garden wall.
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Episode 1428 Mar 20191h 0m
Episode 14
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.
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Episode 154 Apr 20191h 0m
Episode 15
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, bu…
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Episode 1611 Apr 20191h 0m
Episode 16
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.
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Episode 1718 Apr 20191h 0m
Episode 17
Jim faces mayhem on the motorway when a massive pile-up blocks the busy M1.
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Episode 1825 Apr 20191h 0m
Episode 18
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.
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Episode 192 May 20191h 0m
Episode 19
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 road.
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Episode 209 May 20191h 0m
Episode 20
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.
