Trucking Hell S05E11 - Episode 11

There's a perilous situation on the M25 when a slide bed truck carrying a van loses both its offside wheels. It threatens to topple into the inside lane and, to make matters worse, it's on a blind bend just beyond a junction. Lantern recovery op Merrie faces a race against time to stabilise the vehicle and prevent a calamitous collapse before she can even consider towing it to safety. The process calls for two full motorway closures as well as a lane one closure throughout — yet not all motorists obey the rules, making this one of the most hazardous rescues Merrie has faced. In Leicester, Crouch Recovery boss Adam sends op Jamie out in a brand new tractor, after a misguided shortcut across a boggy green in a housing estate has caused a dustbin lorry to sink deep down into the mud. The lorry is so firmly wedged that initial towing attempts see it pulling the tractor back towards it, so Jamie must use all of the bespoke tractor's hardware to stand any chance of taking out this trash titan. With wintry weather setting in, the workload is increasing for op Kevin. While on shift with a double decker recovery truck, he has two jobs to contend with — one car that has had a collision with a petrol tanker and a second with a mechanical failure on the hard shoulder of the M6. Kevin must contend with an inaccessible car park, disgruntled customers and an absence of support on the motorway, while also being buffeted by the winds caused by HGVs hurtling past at 60mph.