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 (20)
1. Episode 1
Aired 3 January 2019 • 60 min
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 drenched as he risks life and limb trying to rescue a tractor.
2. Episode 2
Aired 10 January 2019 • 60 min
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
3. Episode 3
Aired 17 January 2019 • 60 min
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
4. Episode 4
Aired 24 January 2019 • 60 min
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
5. Episode 5
Aired 31 January 2019 • 60 min
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
6. Episode 6
Aired 7 February 2019 • 60 min
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
7. Episode 7
Aired 14 February 2019 • 60 min
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
8. Episode 8
Aired 21 February 2019 • 60 min
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
9. Episode 9
Aired 28 February 2019 • 60 min
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
10. Episode 10
Aired 7 March 2019 • 60 min
Crane operator Nick is called out to a particularly unusual job on a recycling plant. Meanwhile, recovery operative Jim faces a hazardous callout
11. Episode 11
Aired 14 March 2019 • 60 min
Jim and his team face a difficult foggy morning on the M1 when a crash between two artics causes a five-mile-long tailback
12. Episode 12
Aired 19 March 2019 • 60 min
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.
13. Episode 13
Aired 21 March 2019 • 60 min
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.
14. Episode 14
Aired 28 March 2019 • 60 min
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.
15. Episode 15
Aired 4 April 2019 • 60 min
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, but that it is housing many a guilty secret.
16. Episode 16
Aired 11 April 2019 • 60 min
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.
17. Episode 17
Aired 18 April 2019 • 60 min
Jim faces mayhem on the motorway when a massive pile-up blocks the busy M1.
18. Episode 18
Aired 25 April 2019 • 60 min
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.
19. Episode 19
Aired 2 May 2019 • 60 min
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.
20. Episode 20
Aired 9 May 2019 • 60 min
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.