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…)

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…)