Trucking Hell

- Season 5

(2021)

On the M1 motorway a lorry carrying all the ingredients for a full English breakfast goes up in flames. Firefighters struggle to put out the flames before Adam Crouch and his team can recover the wreck.

A rolled-over lorry load of gym weights causes headaches for the Lantern Recovery team. A trailer has come off worse in a collision with a bridge. A high-sided horsebox poses a problem for Abang.

Merrie is tested when a marquee delivery lorry gets stuck in the mud in a tight spot. On the M25 motorway, Michael risks life and limb to rescue a stranded 44-tonner. A breakdown near A&E causes chaos for Lee.

Incident manager Steve Kelly has to fish a van out of a Scottish loch. Recovery operative Jason flirts with danger on the A1 to try and save a stranded lorry. Merrie faces a horrible job on the high street.

A lorry carrying a load of frozen chips has careered off the road into a ditch. Michael is called out to a broken down bin wagon full of garden waste. Mark tackles a broken down horsebox all by himself.

When a lorry delivering a marquee gets stuck in the mud in the middle of a public park, Stephen needs to keep an eye out for passers-by and onlookers. Michael tries to shift a lifeless lorry causing traffic chaos.

In Wokingham, a sinkhole swallows a water tanker. Abang tries to retrieve a BMW that has rolled off the road into a ditch. In Uttoxeter, Jay is dodging dangerous drivers to rescue a broken down truck.

Recovery operative Lee has his hands full trying to retrieve a bus from a hedgerow. An abnormal load causes Michael a huge headache. A rural rescue in a live lane of traffic in Leicestershire tests the nerves of a Crouch crew.

A bin lorry has got stuck down a muddy country track posing a problem for Stig, Merrie gets the giggles as she tries to save a stranded lorry and apprentice Olly battles some buckled wheels.

Simon tackles two stuck trucks, a HGV gets stranded next to busy heavy duty traffic on an industrial estate and a fully loaded arctic needs to be recovered from the side of Northamptonshire's A45.

A slide bed truck carrying a van loses both of its offside wheels, a dustbin lorry sinks into the mud, a car collides with a petrol tanker and another has mechanical failure.

A lorry load of fizzy pop explodes just as rush hour hits, A 44-tonne artic veers off a country lane and gets stuck in the mud, a 25-tonne truck has got stuck on a rugby pitch and a smashed electric car must be cleared off a busy road.

A fully laden fruit and vegetable lorry rolls over on the edge of a roundabout near Kettering, a truck is stranded off the M25 in Enfield with a blown suspension system. A vintage truck helps shift some antique wood.

Rookie recovery op Callum has a baptism of fire when a serious blaze leaves an eight-wheel sewerage tanker stricken in a layby on the busy A1 motorway. A Vauxhall car that's trapped at the bottom of a steep embankment needs rescue.

A 38-tonne mail lorry crashes on a London street, a bashed-up Audi is wedged in a ditch on a busy country road and a former US military vehicle is turned into a recovery machine.

An overnight frost makes a road sweeper slide into a ditch, a 50 tonne tank with no engine has to be moved and there is a delicate touch required after a classic 1959 Morris Minor has spun off a busy road.

An 18-wheel trailer catches fire and closes 3 lanes just before rush hour; an 18-tonne lorry loses traction and smashes into a tree; a delivery truck gets stuck in the mud.

A twenty-tonne drinks lorry gets grounded on a boggy verge, a driver has somehow managed to wedge his truck in deep mud, a truck full of paving slabs crashes into a low bridge.

A tractor unit and a trailer topples over into a muddy ditch, a lorry becomes trapped with its wheels buried in mud and a 44 tonne unit loses its grip on an icy road.

A recovery operative struggles after a truck stacked full of bed frames and mattresses careers off a busy Lincolnshire A-road into a dry stone wall and ends up in a ditch. Pressures of traffic and an uncooperative driver complicate things.