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Trucking Hell

A 44-ton food lorry is on fire, putting motorists in grave danger. Steve Kelly and his team need to get it shifted off the road as quickly as possible, making this one of the most dangerous jobs the team has ever encountered.

Crouch Ops Rob and Lee race to the scene of a horrific traffic collision where a van has slid out of control on a country lane and landed on top of a car. With the car wedged underneath the van, the recovery team is faced with a complex challenge.

Incident Manager Steve and the team are called out to upright an artic that's rolled over on the A1. With rush hour fast approaching, the boys need to raise the heavyweight payload before they cause traffic mayhem.

Crane Operator Nick cannot find a 4x4 that has taken the term 'off road' to another level on the busy A10 and is buried on its side in a water-filled ditch. Once it's discovered he is forced to stop his truck in a live lane to winch it out.

Recovery op Tez has to fly to a job. After a birdstrike, a 44-ton artic needs rescuing from the side of the busy A1 dual carriageway, one of the UK's deadliest roads. Double act, Stig and Lee need to shift a totaled tractor with a busted axle.

Incident Manager Steve is sent to coordinate a recovery on the Northbound A1 after a collision that has closed both lanes. With a Bin Lorry on its side in a ditch and a truck pulling a refrigerated container rolled over, this is a major job.

On the M1, Crouch incident manager, Steve, and his team face a massive task trying to recover a 26-ton lorry that careened off the motorway, catapulted across a 6-foot ditch, broke through a fence, and landed a shocking 30 meters from the road.

Steve and the team attempt to rescue an enormous rubble truck that's tipped over in a ditch. Forced to close the road they're up against the clock, but having to work in the dark is making the job a lot more precarious.

Stig is called out to an oil tanker stuck in the mud in the middle of an isolated farm track. Stig is forced to reverse his massive truck through the surrounding tiny lanes to try and reach the stranded truck from the other side.

Tez and the team get in a jam when they recover a parcel lorry that has taken the term 'stuck in the post' to another level. They have the risky job of getting it shifted before rush hour begins.

A delivery truck's in hot water, cab first into a pond, and its recovery ops Sean and Michael in at the deep end, figuring out how to extract a 38-ton delivery lorry from its watery grave.

A tipper truck has spun 180 degrees and slid down a steep motorway embankment. The job calls for a five-man team, 2 trucks, and a crane. Lee faces his biggest fear trying to locate a remote yard, before coming face to face with a stranded school bus.

Recovery driver Sean is faced with a thorny problem when he tries to recover an SUV that's skidded on black ice and ended up 20 feet down a ditch, wedged in dense shrubbery.

Stig is called to the hard shoulder of the M45 to help a scrap truck with a broken wheel bearing. This is a tough job even for a man of Stig's abilities as he deals with the job next to the live lane of the motorway with his usual grace and charm.

Merrie pitches up at a golf course to rescue a tanker that has landed its very own hole in one, but before she even arrives, a second tanker goes off course and suffers the same fate. But she's in danger of getting stuck herself.

A truck full of gravel rolls into a farmer's field. Steve and the team get in a jam as they try to get it out. Soft ground and the angle the truck is resting at mean they can't clear the gravel out, making it dangerous and unpredictable to lift.

A lorry containing vital medical supplies has been involved in a collision with another truck on a busy A road in Leicestershire – Tez, Buzz, and colleagues Dan and Moz have to get the medical truck back on the road as quickly as possible.

Rescue Op Tez has a stinker of a job getting a bin lorry out of a ditch. After calling for backup and asking the bin lorry's mechanic to assist, Tez puts all his might behind winching the heavy lorry out of danger.

Crouch op Stig fears for his safety and needs assistance when he's called to rescue a refrigerated lorry that careered off the road on a blind bend of the notoriously busy A47.

Buzz is sent to rescue a double-decker artic marooned at the junction of a busy roundabout. Danny's day starts badly when the windscreen on his truck is smashed by a stone.