Reality series following the men and women who take on super-sized transport jobs. The Beast from the East descends, bringing some of the country's busiest roads to a standstill.
A heavy loader carrying cardboard bales tips onto its side.
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
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
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.
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.
A huge lorry straddling the central reservation of the M1 is a rush hour headache for Steve and his colleague Pat and Kim gets drenched as he risks life and limb.
Steve is called to the scene of an overturned gas tanker that may be leaking highly flammable propane. Sean is asked to pick up an abandoned scaffolding lorry.
When a loaded HGV suffers a puncture on a busy motorway, Crouch recovery op Jim Howard and heavy vehicle mechanic Jack Watson are called to the scene.
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.
At Crouch HQ there is excitement in the air as the team help to make trucking superman Chris's wedding day extra special.
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.
Simon grapples with a juggernaut that has skidded off the M62 and a bus leaking diesel. Rory deals with a mobile library that's been the victim of an arson attack.
A luxury coach gives up the ghost on a busy motorway slip road. Scott races to recover a damaged trailer before dark descends.
A huge 32 tonne tipper truck has slid down a dirt embankment and is lying on it's side.
A recycling plant needs two old portable cabins swapping out for new ones, making for some serious heavy lifting for Nick. Jim sees to an old Toyota abandoned on the motorway.
Recovery op Jim is called to the scene of two crashed artics on the M1. But as the team begin to pull the truck and trailer apart they discover the crash has split the hydraulic tank.
Veteran driver Jim attends an emergency call out to recover a lorry that has broken down in the middle of a busy ring road.
Steve and his team attempt to recover a car that has crashed into a river.
Steve battles rush hour traffic to manoeuvre his truck around narrow roads.
Lantern's only female driver discovers a lorry's secrets.
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.
Jim faces mayhem on the motorway when a massive pile-up blocks the busy M1.
Marta and Pat have to pull a bin lorry out of a muddy ditch.
Jim and Steve face one of their riskiest recoveries yet when a tanker carrying highly corrosive pure sulphuric acid smashes into the central reservation of a busy A road and overturns.
It's all hands to the pump at a bus depot.
Tez and his crew deal with a 20-tonne milk tanker sinking in a muddy field in Leicestershire, while Merrie gets a rubbish job trying to rescue a broken down bin lorry on the M42
Reality series following those who take on super sized transport jobs.
Incident Manager Steve tackles a major job on the A1 following a collision, and must coordinate the recovery of a bin lorry that is now lying on its side in a ditch.
Steve and his team must recover a 26 tonne lorry.
The team risk life and limb to recover a truck and trailer.
Steve makes a grim discovery while trying to lift a truck.
Tez and the team get in a jam.
A delivery truck has gone cab first into a pond. Danny tries to save a horsebox from sinking in a muddy field.
A tipper truck has slid down a steep motorway embankment.
Lee risks life and limb on the M1 when he recovers a lorry with a ruptured fuel tank.
Recovery op Pat heads to a gravel truck has swerved to avoid an animal and ended up in a ditch.
Merrie pitches up at a golf course to rescue a tanker that has landed its very own hole in one.
Following men and women working in the heavy recovery business, as they tackle jack-knifed lorries, crashed HGVs and roadside breakdowns.
At the start of the pandemic, but before the lockdown, a lorry containing vital medical supplies is involved in a collision with another truck on a busy A-road in Leicestershire. Merle heads to Gravesend to winch out a delivery truck that has got stuck in an alleyway, and Marta picks up a bin lorry whose rear steering is broken - but getting such a large vehicle onto a low-loader is no mean feat.
Tez has a difficult job getting a bin lorry out of a ditch, which is so tricky he has to call for back-up. A straightforward lift and shift turns nasty when Lee comes up against a stubborn prop shaft, while Merrie faces a race against time to recover a broken-down eight-wheeler stranded by the River Thames.
Buzz battles to recover the tractor cab of a lorry smeared with manure. Stig needs assistance when he is called to rescue a lorry that careered off the road on the busy A47
Buzz is sent to rescue a double decker artic.
Steve rescues a burning transporter loaded with cars.
Steve tackles a 44-ton lorry loaded with toilet roll that has flipped over and blocked the A50, while Martin rescues an articulated lorry axle deep in mud and sinking fast.
Steve comes to the rescue when a trailer rolls over on a busy roundabout on the A46, scattering hay bales everywhere. In south London, recovery op Merrie faces a boggy recovery nightmare.
When a huge truck rolls over, blocking a busy dual carriageway in Derby, operations manager Steve needs to draw on his years of experience to tackle the job.
Ant and Matt face up to a catastrophic lorry crash on a narrow road, transport manager Dan is called to an offroad nightmare, and a seven-tonne lorry slides off a country lane.
A truck careers off the A1, smashing through the side barrier and gets tangled up in live electrics. Even worse, there is a gas pipe a couple of feet away.
When a bin lorry crashes onto its side, company boss Adam is tested to the max. In blizzard conditions, Lee has been landed with a 44-tonne headache.
Michael is faced with a dustcart leaning dangerously by a ditch, and Lee has to right an expensive tractor that has rolled over on a busy roundabout.
When a horsebox breaks down on the notoriously busy M25, Lantern's heavy operations manager Michael is in for a rocky ride. Meanwhile, Buzz is dicing with danger on the A42.
Crouch recovery op Buzz has to abandon his wrecker as he attempts to rescue a stranded skip lorry, while Merrie is faced with a 26-tonne water tanker stuck on a narrow muddy lane.
Martin leads four of the Lantern troops in an all-night rescue when a 44-tonne articulated lorry careers off the road, spilling fuel and its load.
Disaster strikes on a small country lane in Leicestershire when a 40-tonne truck jackknifes across both lanes.
A 44-tonne truck carrying food catches fire and the cargo keeps reigniting.
A trailer carrying gym weights rolls over a roundabout and needs heavy recovery vehicles.
A lorry breaks down on a busy section of the M25 with a major oil leak and a fire risk.
A stranded lorry must be removed from a busy street before rush hour begins.
A frozen food truck crashes into a ditch, but the driver and the keys are missing.
A vehicle stuck on the A10 means a recovery amidst busy and dangerous traffic.
A sinkhole traps a tanker; a car crashes into a ditch; a lorry breaks down.
A coach that has crashed into a hedgerow requires some creative thinking to get rescued.
A coach that has driven off the road into a hedgerow needs to be rescued before rush hour.
Two trucks need rescuing when one got stuck trying to pull out the other.
A slide bed loses two wheels and a lorry gets stuck in the mud.
A 44-tonne artic verges off a country lane and gets tuck in the mud.
A lorry rolls over on the edge of a roundabout and a truck with blown suspension.
A serious blaze leaves an eight-wheel sewage tanker stricken in a layby on the busy A1 motorway just north of Grantham in Lincolnshire.
Lantern recovery op Steve is on his way to a risky roadside rescue. A 38-tonne mail lorry has taken doorstep delivery to another level by crashing on a London street.
A frost in Warwickshire makes a country lane as slippery as an ice rink, causing a road sweeper to slide into a ditch. The weather also causes problems for recovery op Stephen.
An 18-wheel trailer carrying two modular buildings catches fire in the early morning, closing three lanes just before rush hour, and an 18-tonne lorry smashes into a tree.
Lantern recovery op Merrie faces a dangerous challenge when a 20-tonne drinks lorry gets grounded on a boggy verge, and then becomes entangled in the overhanging branches of a tree.
In Hertfordshire, Sean tries 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.
An artic lorry stacked full of bed frames and mattresses has careered off a busy Lincolnshire A-road into a dry stone wall and is now lying in a ditch.
Return of the documentary following workers in the heavy recovery business. In Corby a 16-metre lorry loaded with waste flips over near a busy roundabout.
In this week's episode, company boss Adam Crouch detours from his morning office commute to attend the scene of a big incident. He leads the team as they try to rescue a rolled-over mixer truck full of tonnes of wet cement. Joining him in this biggest of jobs is patriarch of the family Dave Crouch, Adam's dad and a crane-driving expert. At Lantern, Merrie gets back on the road after a week's holiday in Italy only to discover her hydraulic levers have gremlins in the system — making it difficult to fix a broken-down truck's dodgy turbo. And in Leicestershire, things get wet and wild for Abang as he has to fish a Ford Focus out of a river.
In this week's episode, Crouch incident manger Steve and his team have been called out to a lorry that has caught fire on the extremely busy A1. By the time Steve arrives, the fire has been put out and Callum has pulled the tractor unit onto a low loader. But there's still the mammoth task of lifting what's left of the trailer onto another low loader. Steve and his team move a crane into position, but Dave notices that ash on the trailer is still burning — which could be extremely dangerous if the wind picks up, causing it to re-ignite. They decide to tip the trailer's remaining contents onto the road, making it much safer. Once this is done, they can concentrate on the lift, but the trailer is so badly damaged by fire that it could break up while in the air. So the team must be ultracautious as they attempt this recovery. Lantern boys Daniel and Steve have been called to rescue a trailer that's suffered a serious blow from the branch of an overhanging tree. The truck has managed to pu
Lantern recovery op Stuart is called to assist in the rescue of a rollover, and finds an articulated lorry carrying at least 1,500 boxes of A4 paper has tipped over on a roundabout.
A crew trying to take care of a burned-out trailer struggles due to its missing wheels, and a broken down bus blocks a bus stop, with pedestrians complicating recovery efforts.
Three veteran recovery experts struggle with a terribly trashed truck, and a rescue effort gets off to a bad start when the driver realises he is facing the wrong way.
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.
Kev battles a big bin lorry that is stranded on a remote country road in Northumberland, Abeng braves a blind bend to recover a crashed car and Aidan has a brush with a bus.
A lorry has gone off the road, rolled over and now lies directly underneath overhead power lines, leaving a race against time and the light. Merrie meets the weekend head-on. Aidan has a broken down bus to fix.
A 50-ton construction machine is stranded by a severely-damaged Victorian bridge.
On the busy A1, halfway between Newcastle and Durham, an articulated lorry has fallen down a 20-metre embankment. The Alpha Recovery crew must work out how to retrieve the truck
Shaun has to think outside the box as a trapped telehandler puts the team under serious pressure, A stranded bus may of blown Aiden's chances of an easy recovery and a sunken car causes trouble.
On the M25 near Enfield, two lorries, two cars and a van have piled into each other, blocking three lanes, so the Lantern team must recover the two artics
A 40-ton lorry careers off the M1 and plunges down an embankment, becoming embedded in a ditch. Steve needs to work out how to free the truck
On the M11, a loaded truck pulling an extra trailer has been left marooned after the rear axle on the trailer collapsed while at full speed, causing two of the wheels to break
In Northumberland, a 32-tonne tipper gets lost in the dark and ends up stuck in a boggy field, while in Leicester recovery op Zibby gets the keys to a brand-new set of wheels
In the north of England, Kevin is called to a particularly challenging recovery - a 75-ton crane that has become stranded in the remote countryside, in the middle of the night
Vehicles in need of recovery include a Land Rover Discovery dumped in a canal.
Just outside Newcastle, Kev is sent to rescue a wheelie bin delivery truck that is stuck.
Following the men and women of the heavy recovery business. In Hertfordshire, rookie op Euan is tasked with rescuing a ten-tonne rigid - one wrong move could end his rescue mission.
A toppled tanker with liquid chicken guts needs rescuing, a refrigerated truck stranded on a busy road is leaking water everywhere, and an arctic has smashed into two lampposts.
Alpha Recovery send a crew to a challenging, energy sapping recovery: a fuel tanker has rolled down a steep muddy hill and landed on its side. A huge digger is needed to flip it over.
In Buckinghamshire, recovery op Steve must deal with a mattress stuffed lorry which has hit a low bridge. Rookie Paul tries to extract a wrecked car in rural Derbyshire.
A three tonne passenger ferry is hauled out of the icy waters of a lake so it can be repaired, and there are two cases of massive vehicles stuck in mud.
Recovery op Mark tackles a Vauxhall left dangling over the edge of a canal lock 8n wet weather, and Daniel helps with a recovery operation after a smash on the M25.
A 44-ton gravel lorry careers off the A69, plunging down an embankment, and Gary must pick up the pieces. In Croydon, Stu has a complex recovery: a bin lorry is stuck in deep mud
A 26 tonne tanker gets stuck in a waterlogged verge on the busy A5, fully loaded and leaning to one side. Plus, moving an aging double decker bus that’s been immobile for eight years.
Two coaches which tried passing each other on a narrow snowy lane come to grief, and a bin lorry stuck in mud is in danger of keeling over.
In Northumberland, Alpha Recovery stalwart Kevin's got his hands full winching a tanker out of a muddy ditch on a country road. His load is leaning perilously close to an ancient dry wall.
Rescuing a burnt-out low loader and portacabin, a broken-down bus blocking a mini roundabout during the afternoon school run, and retrieving a car which has careered off the A6.
A 46-tonne artic has veered into a verge on a busy A-road and is going nowhere without some help. And a lorry gets caught in slippery mud.
The Alpha recovery team face a huge challenge as a double decker bus has rolled onto its side, and in The Midlands, a car transporter has become bogged down in the grounds of a venue.
A tipper truck sinks into deep mud on an isolated farm track, a car has crashed onto an embankment, and a lorry breaks down off a busy roundabout in rush hour.
In Warwickshire, Dave Crouch comes to the rescue a tipper truck gets stuck in deep mud on an isolated farm track. And a 26-ton truck breaks down beside the London eye.
A bin lorry has come off a country lane, it’s wheels slipping in mud, and a box van trailer which has been uncoupled and left with the front supported solely by its landing legs.
There's an emergency in East London when a 25-ton truck hits a railway bridge. And Buzz needs to co-ordinate a multi-agency taskforce when a refrigerated lorry catches fire on the A42.
Jobs include a bulker trailer that has burst into flames, a heavily laden truck that is wedged in soft mud by a busy dual carriageway, and a tractor unit with a broken prop shaft.
In a 600-metre-long tunnel on the M25, Steve and Daniel must combine forces to try to shift a 44-ton unit and trailer stacked full of breeze blocks.
Rescue teams are required for a 22-tonne houseboat washed up on a muddy bank of the River Trent by storm babet, and a tractor unit and trailer with a trashed gearbox.
There’s an emergency in Nottinghamshire when the ground gives way beneath a tipper truck fully loaded with stone aggregate. In Middlesborough, a bus gets grounded on a grassy verge.
A 45-tonne crane gets caught out by a crumbling curb, Mouse performs a late-night recovery of a tanker that’s slipped into a sodden gully and a damaged family saloon needs rescuing.
Sean is tasked with recovering a 17-tonne telehandler that’s tumbled off a track, landing upside down in a ditch, while Mouse tries to recover a broken-down bus.
A 44-tonne articulated lorry has attempted to drive up a hill, hit sleet ice, slid back down out of control and jackknifed, leaving it wedged across both sides of the road…
Rescue teams deal with a car transporter that goes up in smoke during rush hour, a car that took a nosedive down a steep bank, and a single decker bus stuck in mud on a mini roundabout
In Northumberland, bad weather causes an emergency in the A1 involving an 18-tonne truck. Plus a tricky recovery on the 17th fairway of a golf course when a beer truck grinds to a halt.
In the north east of England, Alpha recovery ops Kevin and Ian battle the snow and ice to rescue a stricken fuel tanker that's slipped off a frozen track while making a delivery. With nowhere to turn and limited space they must perform a tricky reverse winch pull using hundreds of metres of line. They're relying on a tree as an anchor point and the power of their 4x4 road rescuer. It's a risky manoeuvre, if they get it wrong the cable could snap causing carnage.
Lantern recovery op Stuart has been tasked with rescuing a 26-tonne sewage tanker, fully loaded with waste material, that has got its nearside wheels wedged in a drainage ditch down a narrow muddy track. On top of having barely any room to manoeuvre, the tanker's tilting dangerously to one side, so Stuart must try and get the monster back onto solid ground without it toppling over.
The team endure an epic clean-up after a lorry carrying tonnes of curry sauce jars collides with a huge artic. Gary battles a bin wagon on a dirt track. Euan has a tug of war with a tanker.
Kev and Gary face a Herculean task extracting a fully loaded 44 tonne artic from a forest. Recovery op Bodhan finds himself under a bus in central London.
When Storm Isha hits Northumberland, Mouse attempts a dangerous rescue in high winds; Mick saves a dustcart from toppling over and Steve hauls a fully loaded tanker out of the mud.
In the North East, a truck has taken a tumble into a ditch in the dead of night. In Leicestershire, Snods has got his hands full craning a car out of a field.
Mouse is tasked with recovering a delivery vehicle that’s blown onto its side and Dan is attempting to remove the remains of a burnt-out tar truck.
Wild weather wrecks havoc as Gary and Kevin lift a trailer in the Pennines.
Ian faces danger working metres from a live lane to rescue a truck in trouble. Merrie must extract an arctic sinking in the sand without getting beached herself.
A rolled over tipper truck on a busy road has the Crouch crew scrambling. A vandalised motorhome with broken steering needs saving from a driveway.
