Light Recovery - Page 1
Our Photographic albums of recovery incidents
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The majority of our recovery transporters are slide beds which means the transporter slides hydraulically off the chassis and meets the road to load the vehicle. The angle of these slide beds does not exceed five degrees, so sports car with low spoilers are unlikely to get damaged. All the functions, including the winch, are hydraulically operated.

Every transporter has a second car lift which is used for suspended towing or alternatively as an adapter to tow a trailer or machinery plant.

The image to the right is, however, of our Scania 114 Accident Unit complete with Fasi F170 Crane which is featured in use on this page.

This Catering trailer was being towed along the M4 in Reading when the driver of the tow vehicle was overtaken by his own trailer! The A frame broke away and allowed the trailer to uncouple. Unfortunately the brakes were so bad out of adjustment that the break-away cable did not have any effect on applying the brakes. Luckily it hit no one and we were called to recover the very awkward trailer as it had only 3" of ground clearance.

This little Ford KA was overtaking when a vehicle appeared in front of it, causing it to swerve out of control and flip over, landing in some-one's front garden. Amazingly the driver had only bruising injuries. We Hiab lifted from over the front of the cab and cleaned up the front lawn.