Trucking Hell

A gravel truck has swerved to avoid an animal In the middle of a busy B road near Coventry, before going into a ditch and rolling over several times. Recovery op Pat Jennings has come to get the truck back on its wheels and help the clean up team get the road reopened as quickly as possible. He has to deal with a number of problems on the way, including a fence which has attached itself to the truck and a broken hydraulic pump. Stig is called to the hard shoulder of the M45 near Rugby to help a scrap truck with a broken wheel bearing. Shifting the high and heavy truck is a tough job even for a man of Stig’s abilities and experience, but he deals with the job next to the live lane of the motorway with his usual grace and charm. Plus, Lee heads into the Leicestershire countryside to rescue a gas tanker which has come off the icy drive of a chicken farm – it’s a tricky lift and shift made even more complicated by the precautions needed to deal with such a volatile cargo. And Tez takes his American made Peterbilt truck to a muddy building site near Daventry to help a truck that’s stuck in the muck. Tez gets down and dirty and uses the slippy mud to his advantage to get the truck back on terra firma – before taking himself and his truck for a serious clean up