Await Free Recovery

[bednobs]

When you are in roadworks on a motorway and the promise free recovery, are there vans that drive up and down waiting for people to break down? Where do tey recover you to - just the end of the roadworks?

[Buenchico]

"This service moves vehicles that are broken down, damaged or abandoned to a nearby place of relative safety, for example the hard shoulder. Our free recovery service only operates within the limit of the works. Vehicles are not towed to your home or to a garage. You will be responsible for any further recovery"

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/highways-england/about/about-our-services

[Old_Geezer]

I assumed they waited elsewhere for when the camera viewers notice a problem and call them out.

[Hopkirk]

I have seen a recovered car being unhitched on the hard shoulder, literally feet from the end of the roadworks.

[Buenchico]

>>> are there vans that drive up and down waiting for people to break down?

Roughly 17 years ago I hitched a lift with the driver of a breakdown truck. He told me that he'd spent the past few weeks living in a caravan, with his recovery vehicle parked next to it, at the end of a set of roadworks. He was on call 24 hours per day to tow any broken down vehicle clear of the roadworks but he was only called out twice in just under a month. The rest of the time he simply relaxed and watched telly, etc. Not a bad job for the £300 per day he got paid!

[Hopkirk]

Over the last few years of motorway upgrades, I have often seen a company called Saunders having a base near roadworks with recovery vehicles and caravans.

[ToraToraTora]

they see you on the camera and send the truck to drop you off at the first place they can, usually the hard shoulder.