One of our drivers got held up in the queue on a14 yesterday near cambs,took him 2hours, said it “took them” 4.5hour to move the truck? That seem quite a long time. Surely a simple breakdown recovered fairly quickly? Unless wrecker came from Scotland! Just wondered how long does it take from rocking up to pulling off for simple breakdown, not a rollover.cheers.
Only done light recovery work so I don’t know the inns and outs of heavy stuff. But i imagine there can be a lot of work involved in getting a broken truck prepared for towing depending on the type of breakdown. Not quite as simple as a broken down car.
Depends whats up with it.
Straight lift n shift on a broken down artic - 45 mins tops from rocking up to pulling away.
Compressor/air system fault - wind all the brakes off+take wing tops off - more time.
Close coupling fridge and the sliding 5th wheel is siezed, either split the rig or unsieze the 5th wheel.
Hub faults - chain up the axle and remove wheels.
Rear axle fault - Unit needs to be pulled out, turned around and back-end lifted, then the trailer moved.
Fire damage - burnt hubs means full lift (how do you do that on a decker■■?).
RTA - if the Collision Investigation Unit want to take a look, the road could be closed for hours.
4.5 hours suggests to me this was not a run of the mill lift n shift. Must have been more to it than that.