Obviously a joke call as a man is upside down sitting in his car and makes a phone call to his breakdown cover company in the USA, in this case the breakdown cover company is TripleA.

He tells Triple A that his car is upside down and on fire and will they come and give him a tow. he breakdown cover company just does not flinch and asks for his membership number. I suppose what is missing is he fails to tell them he is still in the vehicle.
he must have good hairspray as his hair stays in place right through this and the answering system of Triple A is terrible. So you wonder if he rang the emergency number or the main switch board. Anyway another attempt of being funny on the subject of breakdown cover.

I promised some footage of the 2007 tow show in the uk which is a show for recovery trucks in the UK. Here is an interview, talking about the requirements of the UK recovery vehicle market in 2007.

I am sure there are a few foriegn voices in the video, so the world tow show may be an apropriate title. Not for the avaerage individual, but if you are into tow truck or in the breakdown cover game, you may want to watch.

I know scarborough pretty well with it only being an hour or so drive from where i live, so when i saw this video of a boring breakdown cover man on the seafront, I had to out it here.

Of course these guys who attend breakdowns are often run off their feet, working in all types of weather (it looks a tyical Scarborough day there) and at all times of the day and night. But obviously they get some perods that are just boring waiting for theat breakdown cover call to come in, this looks just like thats cenario.

Reading his newspaper on a quiet day, down by the caost at scarborough, with a yorkshire voice, letting us know what he is doing.
The word boring is his own, not ours, but you should watch anyway. Lets have it for the breakdown cover man in Scarborough.

You will now need ot search for “scarborough, supramat tacho break” as the feed has been stopped.

Well you would not expect the AA, RAC or any other national breakdown cover Guide comapny to be able to do this. A vehicle recovery over a bridge in Cresent city above the river. A huge crane is needed well above the river to haul the truck out if the water.

It doesn’t show how the vehicle got there and is probably just as well, becasue if it went off the bridge, I can’t see how anyone could have survived that kind of fall. They have used some awful guitar music that just does not suit the proceedings, you may want to turn this down. The recovery is succesfull though and obviuosly the film was cut down to the high lights.

Anyway, recovery over a high bridge above the river, here it is.

I have filed this under international breakdown cover, because I din’t know where it is from, i am guessing Canada.

Believe it or not there is a show for recovery vehicles and it is called the tow this last one was in June 2007 in the UK. Of course it is not just aimed at the national breakdown cover organisations but for garages throughout the UK who as part of their service offer a recovery service.

You will se here an example of the recovery trucks that may have appeared at the tow show as this was the promo before hand. John Coldwell Chairem of REMSA whatever that means presents this short video.

There is a focus on working trucks, again what ever that means, but you can see a couple of examples of what was going to be there.

I will lokk for the actual show video.

Imaging you have spun off the racing track and you are left relying on the recovery truck to get what is left of your racing car back to your transport truck to assess the damge or to just get home. Well would you trust them? Well I would, here is a video of one such incident. (more…)

We see our break down cover specialists important to get us on our way to work, holiday or destinantion. But there are other types of breakdown cover service, this is a video regading the heavy side of the business, recovering heavy vehicles.

This is a sugar tanker that had rolles over and then caught fire in Cananda, the video shows the process to some awful music, that was supposed to improve the watching experience. There is nothing much left of the tanker and I have no idea if there were any casualties from this accident.

It does show what recovery vehicle are faced with when attending accidents like this. It is not just an anoyed driver wanting to get on their way, there could be serious accidents with even deaths involved and may mean a road being closed waithing on you before it can be reopened. There is something different when dealing with this type of call out.

it is not the most likely place to see a recovery truck, but the Santa Pod speedway track is the location to see on ready to see how fast it can get down that run. It sits there reving its huge engine, but when the lights go out, what will it do against the hod rod it is racing against?

The answer is awful, it strolls along as if it is going to help a car rather than being a racing machine. it appears it was just a joke, to get the audience going and probably the slowest time of the day. On saying that wouldn’t it be a good idea to have breakdown recovery truck hot rods.

Instead of the breakdown cover companies quoting call out times of 35 minutes, they could slash their times say to 15 minutes. with super fast recovery machines. of course it wouldn’t do their image much goos with the safety issues they like to remind us of.

Anyway, it was worth a watch, but proably not two.

The national breakdown cover companies are pretty much prepared for most things, but I am not sure you would be covered for something like this. I can see your insurance company paying for the recovery.

It looks like the truck was parked without the handbrake and so rolled in the lake. It took a diver to locate where it was and to connect a rope and a tractor vehicle to pull it out. Anther example of where many would laugh at some ones elses misfortune. On saying that, not sure I would park next to deep water and not make sure my car was secure.

Unfortunatly we cant show the video clip as it the code has been unbedded from You tube, probably the person was too embarressed to allow it to be used on other sites.

Go to Youtube and search for Underwater truck recovery.

We have all seen the radio joke calls, where the broadcaster or a friend rings up a local company live on air and asks some silly questions to get laughs from its listeners. Well this another one, but based on breakdown recovery.

The caller pretends to have rung the wrong number stating he wants help frpm a personal breakdown, bur obviously has rand a breakdown cover company. The person on the other end of the phone, is forced to take this seriously, not knowing it is a joke and keeps saying over again, he can’t help him, but ther is someone who can.

To be honest I did not find it that funny, and I think the person recieving the phone call did a great job and acted professionally, but of course you may have a different opinion. give it a listen and make your own mind up.

Here it the breakdown cover call, it sound english an it is a garage rather than a national breakdown cover company, he rings