Trucking Hell

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.