About this season
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 (10)
1. Episode 1
Aired 17 May 2018 • 60 min
The Beast from the East descends, bringing some of the country's busiest roads to a standstill.
2. Episode 2
Aired 24 May 2018 • 60 min
A heavy loader carrying cardboard bales tips onto its side.
3. Episode 3
Aired 31 May 2018 • 60 min
A double-deck HGV rolls over on the A6, Crouch Recovery are sent in to save the day. Elsewhere, recovery operative Rob delivers a wrecked cab to a salvage yard
4. Episode 4
Aired 7 June 2018 • 60 min
Heavy-recovery operator Marcus and his colleague Trigger have their work cut out when an HGV collides with another vehicle on one of Britain's busiest motorways
5. Episode 5
Aired 14 June 2018 • 60 min
On one of the UK's busiest roads, a jackknifed HGV has careered through a front garden, over a ditch and blocked a lane of traffic. Meanwhile, Jim's mettle is tested and Steve has to quell a rebellion.
6. Episode 6
Aired 21 June 2018 • 60 min
In a quiet rural village in Leicestershire, a utility truck has got stuck in the mud in a local resident's garden. Adam and his team are under pressure to get it out without causing thousands of pounds worth of damage to the property.
7. Episode 7
Aired 28 June 2018 • 60 min
Adam dispatches a team of recovery operators when a trailer sheds a 16-ton piece of metal machinery at a junction for East Midlands Airport, causing a collision into a passing van.
8. Episode 8
Aired 5 July 2018 • 60 min
Marta and Fluff are sent to recover a massive digger that plunged into the River Thames after the bank it was sitting on gave way. However, moving 20 tons of dead weight is no easy task. Meanwhile, Rory is dispatched to rescue a Sprinter that is blocking a bus lane, and Jim has to work fast to get a stranded HGV driver to safety.
9. Episode 9
Aired 12 July 2018 • 60 min
A waste truck is involved in a motorway pile-up, and a broken down vehicle towing a cutting-edge caravan presents a problem. Fluff has to transport one of the heaviest loads his vehicle is able to carry, and Marta is called out to a truck that has become stranded in a quarry.
10. Episode 10
Aired 19 July 2018 • 60 min
A lorry loaded with tarmac breaks down. A burnt-out van abandoned on an isolated towpath presents a challenge for Steve and Marta, but a rescue lorry soon comes to their assistance.