Well we have all seen that film from the 70’s called Convoy, so here we have another version, also clearly filmed in the 1970’s but this time a convoy of National Rescue recovery vehicles.
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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.

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…)

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.

It seem like an American term but breakdown coverage seems to be taking over from the term motoring club, or have I been watching too many Columbos? (more…)

After haveing ablog for a while you notice that at certain times of the year you write the same things. Fow example i have noticed the cold night are creeping in now quiet quick and the traffic on the internet is picking up and so are breakdown cover requests.
But this is nothing new, in fact I remember talking about the same thing last year and maybe the year before, although not in this blog.

They say repetition is the mother aof all skills but maybe this is just a little to much. Breakdown cover is important this time of year as many cars don’t take too lightly the fact of colder nights, we are in our warm homes, very often our vehicles are left outside to defend themselves, and we compain if they don’t handle themselves very well. (more…)

I have talked about breakdown cover tv adverts quiet a bit in this blog so I have decided to bring Mohamad to the mountain. on the home page we now have alink to a menu page showing the latest breakdown cover televison adverts from the RAC and the AA.

If I could find the recent one from Green Flag, I would show that one too, but all I can find is an older add with no date attached. There is also an ad from the 80 and 70’s not to mention a few roadside assistance commercials from the USA and Australia.

As I find more ads and information, hopefully I can make quiet a considerable catalouge of old new and borrow tv commercials, for you to play live on your PC.

There are currenly 8 to choose from, but soon there will be more I am sure.

Every morning whether it is hot and sunny of -10 degrees below I see drivers with their windows down, elbows out of the window and a cigarette in hand. Well it seems it has now been added to the highway code as something you should not do whilst driving. (more…)

I was in my local Asda superstore a few days ago and was inetersted to find a leaflet offering breakdown cover. Of course on closer inspection theis Asda breakdown cover was actually provided by the RAC.
This got me thinking into why would someone buy breakdown cover branded as Asda, rather than RAC. To be honest I have not compared the prices against the normal RAC premiums, but I can’t see the RAC shooting themselves in the foot by allowing Asda to sell their service cheaper than they sell it themselves. (more…)

The whole principle of inusrance and what includes breakdown cover is that things just happen when we don’t expect them, to people you would not expect and in a way you would not expect.

An example of this, is the sad dissapearance of Steve Fosset the man famous for breaking many world records including flying, hot air balloonng and many more. (more…)