The competition for breakdown cover is fierce with every organisation trying to one better on the competition to get those extra sales. At the moment, you still can get a Green Flag breakdown cover policy for £25 online, which is amazing value and clearly is this price to get the quanities in.

Here is a video od a more extreme service that many motorists may want ot have in the future, although highly unlikely, how to get rid of other motorists on the road that get in your way. The ironic thing about this, is that the other guy will need the breakdown cover man also after the event. You will get the point when you watch this video.

One of the most popular reasons for calling out that breakdown cover man is because you have locked yourself out of your car. You can see you keys dangling from the dashboard and of course you have somewhere to go now, or in fact you are stuck somewhere away from home. (more…)

It seems that those guys from the RAC guys down under. It gives the message, that if you do need help it is better to ring your breakdown cover man or roadside assistance they call it down there, than freind or member of the family.
It is only 17 seconds long, but enough to get the message across, although I have to say I needed to watch it a few times to get the point.
Probably the UK side not quite understanding the humour down under.

Watch the video here

An update on Green Flag, shows basic Rescue service from only £25, amazing value. Even their recovery service options start from £46 today.

It does not take a genius to compare an annual policy price against a call out charge from a recovery agent should you breakdown. In fact it makes you wonder, how they make a profit from this.

A basic annual breakdown cover policy for less than a tank full of petrol. If there was a time to consider based on price, it must be now.

Well it seems they are competing with each other again as the AA are also offering offering 25% off their breakdown cover policies when you buy online.

The AA always tend to be more expensive than the rest of the field, probaby becase they have more patrolem on the payroll than anyone else. But in this case they are only £1.40 more expensive than the RAC, with an annual membership starting from £34.40 after their 25% discount is applied.

In fact compared to the RAC, all their prices seem pretty close.

The latest on the RAC promotion offers is that they are offering 25% off, if you buy online. That means that you can get a roadside policy from £33, for a years cover, that is down from £44.

The cheapest option that offers nationwide recovery is now £69 down from £92 and is called solution 1. There are even better options that curently all offer 25% off.

As a breakdown recovery agent or breakdown cover man there is often recovering cars fron an accident, sometimes when someone has died at the wheel or seriously injured. In this video, no one died but clearly it has turned over a few times and has blood inside so someone had a headache from it. You need to slow down is the message.
I would imagine they visit some terrible accidents sometimes. This one was deemed as near fatal.

I like driving in my car by madness is the theme music to this video recorded back in 1986 shows the life of a breakdown recovery man. Dealing with the snow accidents and even a Tesco lorry. The police are there in abundance showing the amount of work is accident realted. Not the safest of jobs being a breakdown recovery man.

There are a few more parts to go, I will add as I go along.

It says it is from the 80s and has the music from Boon, (remember that). This is part 1 of the breakdown cover organisation National Rescue doing a rescue, hi ho silver

Not sure why this was filmed as you tube was not born yet and I can’t remember if video cameras were around either. The recovery vehicles however seem like they are from the 70’s or before, so maybe the early 80’s. Of course I will look at future parts of thes riviting (just kidding) breakdown recovery organistations story.

If you ever wonder ho they recover vehicles or what kind of breakdown cover service the Ameican Army offer in Iraq, well here it is. (more…)