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Trucking Hell

Disaster strikes on the M1 when a 44-tonne truck carrying all the ingredients for a full-English Breakfast catches fire. Firefighters are battling to put out the blaze, but its cargo has a dangerous habit of reigniting

A trailer laden with 29-tonnes of gym weights has rolled over on a busy roundabout. Lantern boss Lee and his team rush to the scene to get the trailer upright using two heavy recovery vehicles.

Lantern Recovery Operator, Michael risks life and limb when a worrying call comes in concerning a broken down lorry on one of the busiest stretches of the M25.

On the A1 motorway northbound, recovery op Jason is in a 4am race against time to remove a stranded lorry before rush hour begins. It's suffered an electrical fire on its underside, but what first appears a straight forward recovery is anything but.

A trucking disaster strikes on a country road when a 44-tonne truck, loaded with frozen chips, careers into a ditch and ends up resting dangerously on its side.

Crouch Recovery op Steve Hodges gets the call that a truck is stranded in a park. The stricken vehicle is stuck on a wet and muddy field that has become incredibly soft due to heavy rainfall.

A 15-tonne Water Tanker has been swallowed by a Sinkhole in Wokingham town centre. Lantern lass Merrie rushes to the scene where her concern is what might lurk within.

Rookie Recovery Op Joe has a challenge on his hands when a delivery van slides off the road, ending up precariously balanced on the verge between a farm track and a muddy field.

In Burton On Trent, Lee is in a race against time to rescue a coach that's careered off a road and straight into a hedgerow.

In a muddy Leicestershire field, recovery op Simon is confronted with not one, but two trucks in need of rescuing. The first got stuck following its sat nav, while the second came a cropper trying to pull it free.

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.

It's Friday and just as rush hour hits, a lorry load of fizzy drinks has exploded, going up in smoke and causing traffic chaos on the busy M1.

Weekend traffic grinds to a halt when a fully laden fruit and vegetable lorry rolls over on the edge of a roundabout near Kettering. The driver escapes uninjured, but police are forced to close the road, causing a giant tailback.

It's a baptism of fire for rookie recovery op Callum when a serious blaze leaves an eight-wheel sewerage tanker stricken in a layby on the busy A1 motorway just north of Grantham in Lincolnshire.

Lantern recovery op Steve Knight is on his way to a risky roadside rescue. A 38-tonne mail lorry has taken door step delivery to another level by crashing on a London street.

There's a tricky situation for Recovery Operator Stephen in Warwickshire after an overnight frost makes a narrow country lane as slippery as an ice rink, causing a road sweeper to slide into a ditch.

It's 4.30am and as Britain's network of roads and motorway stir the team at Lantern gear up for a huge emergency call out. An 18-wheel trailer carrying two portacabins has caught fire closing 3 lanes of the eastbound carriageway of the M25.

Lantern Recovery Op, Merrie faces a dangerous challenge when a twenty-ton drinks lorry gets grounded on a boggy verge. The truck is stuck fast and initial attempts to pull it free leave the lorry leaning over and threatening to topple on its side.

In Hertfordshire, Sean is in a race against time to shift a tractor unit and trailer fully laden with 27 tonnes of wood, after it left a busy section of road and toppled over into a muddy ditch alongside a row of bushes.

In Lincolnshire Recovery Operator Jay hopes he won't have sleepless nights over an Artic stacked full of bed frames and mattresses which has careered off a busy A road into a dry-stone wall and is lying in a ditch.