Trucking Hell (2018)
Synopsis
Super-sized transport jobs require even bigger trucks to perform them. Lifting the lid on the heavy recovery business, featuring industrial strength trucks capable of towing and lifting the biggest and heaviest machines on the nation's roads.
Network
5
Episodes
Episodes
Episode 1
The Beast from the East descends, bringing some of the country's busiest roads to a standstill.
Episode 2
A heavy loader carrying cardboard bales tips onto its side.
Episode 3
A double-deck HGV rolls over on the A6, Crouch Recovery are sent in to save the day. Elsewhere, recovery operative Rob delivers a wrecked cab to a salvage yard
Episode 4
Heavy-recovery operator Marcus and his colleague Trigger have their work cut out when an HGV collides with another vehicle on one of Britain's busiest motorways
Episode 5
On one of the UK's busiest roads, a jackknifed HGV has careered through a front garden, over a ditch and blocked a lane of traffic. Meanwhile, Jim's mettle is tested and Steve has to quell a rebellion.
Episode 6
In a quiet rural village in Leicestershire, a utility truck has got stuck in the mud in a local resident's garden. Adam and his team are under pressure to get it out without causing thousands of pounds worth of damage to the property.
Episode 7
Adam dispatches a team of recovery operators when a trailer sheds a 16-ton piece of metal machinery at a junction for East Midlands Airport, causing a collision into a passing van.
Episode 8
Marta and Fluff are sent to recover a massive digger that plunged into the River Thames after the bank it was sitting on gave way. However, moving 20 tons of dead weight is no easy task. Meanwhile, Rory is dispatched to rescue a Sprinter that is blocking a bus lane, and Jim has to work fast to get a stranded HGV driver to safety.
Episode 9
A waste truck is involved in a motorway pile-up, and a broken down vehicle towing a cutting-edge caravan presents a problem. Fluff has to transport one of the heaviest loads his vehicle is able to carry, and Marta is called out to a truck that has become stranded in a quarry.
Episode 10
A lorry loaded with tarmac breaks down. A burnt-out van abandoned on an isolated towpath presents a challenge for Steve and Marta, but a rescue lorry soon comes to their assistance.
Cast
Details
Original Title
Trucking Hell
Status
Returning Series
Seasons
9
Episodes
139
Production
Crackit Productions, Channel 5 Television