Broken down in Bath, been waiting 5 hours so far…
Base is only in Gloucester an hour away. 
However my longest time is a 9 hour wait from actual breakdown til recovery arrived when I broke down in Malvern… again, only an hour away from base.
Could have bloody walked home by now.
Mine was 10.5 hours. I ended up having a 9 off and sleeping through the wait, lol.
Not in a wagon but last year I covered a job down in Cornwall for a week. Home time on Friday the suspension collapsed on the company Nivarra so was told to get a hotel for the night and wait until they sent someone to pick me up which should have been the next day.
Turns out the chap collecting me didn’t get the message until he got back to the office the following Tuesday. I had a company credit card on me so obviously I wasn’t phoning around to say I was still there as I was nice all inclusive break in Newquay. 
12hrs broke down in Aberystwyth,waited 4 hours for someone to get to me from Shrewsbury…he turned up in a van,decided it was not repairable so had to drive back to Shrewsbury to get his wrecker then drive back to me and tow me back to Shrewsbury…all in all 12hrs total!
I’ve been lucky. So far in my 16 years of driving trucks, I’ve never needed to be recovered!! Probably just gone and jinxed it by saying that! [emoji51]
I bet the rest of Bath is pleased you’re broken down. Beautiful place awful roads at the best of times.
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Ah they loved it. On our way now, old Foden to the rescue. 1983 still going strong.
Broke down about teatime,coming off a roundabout in ruislip.
Fitter turned up in a unit,about 0800 the next morning.
Attached a bar,and dragged me all the way home.
If you’d held on I would have been going that way tomorrow with an empty low loader.
used to drive an old DAF2100,no guts in it and was crawling along the M40 just before Banbury[come back from Solihull]went down to 15mph and lost my rag,slammed it into what I thought was the next gear down but managed to put it in 1st,let the clutch up,result was a horrendous noise and then limping at 5mph,turns out I shot some bolts through whatever it was and bxxxxxxd it,nearly two hours before they got to me and another 3 to recover the old banger,my fault but was I peed off after nearly 17 hrs out[got the sack the next day,lol]
Oh dear, rear axle o/s bearing collapsed during a bit of a run, the heat put paid to the seal and melted wheel-nut flags. I have class2 and 3 adr on 
, pull in to Claymore drive in Aberdeen and pull off the Dg’s , oil smoke catches wee flame , so bottle of pepsi cools it all down then phone in for Daf aid . I hadn’t even got the triangle and cones out before the mech arrives ,and then the wrecker rocks up ,he was out on a test drive , time from first call to drinking coffee at Daf 20mins , lucky they were only a mile away . Sorry to disappoint.
Only had to be recovered once.
Took best part of 8 hours after the breakdown company went to J28 M4 not J28 M5 where I was.
Left it overnight at some garage near Taunton, new top hose and away we went.
Paul
mine was 9 
and I ended up with 7 
In the late 90’s i broke down in a rigid about 10am and it did not get recovered til about 11pm, the truck was taken to a garage in Edinburgh and i was dropped off back at the depot in Glasgow by a mechanic in a van around 1am ! 
so about 15 hours !!..and it was a day cab so nighting out wasn’t an option 
4 long days
At the Juggernaut cafe faygate Horsham, (when Lyn own the cafe)
when I worked for IMI Range on lorry & Drawbar.
Problem with an air valve connecting from the drawbar trailer to the lorry,
Daf couldn’t repair the valve or had one in stock in the UK so had to send of to Germany for a Specialise part,
Personally best breakdown I have ever had outside a cafe all week and a nice lying every day.
Broken down on a Monday night then when repaired straight home on Friday morning
Happy Days
Mine is short then by those above. I spent six hours on the hard shoulder of the M60 waiting to get a collapsed wheel bearing replaced. The boss at the time (different company from now) said that he wasn’t going to pay and get me recovered so sent out his uncle to replace the bearing at the roadside.
As he was grinding off the broken part asked what I was carrying. 28.2t of fertiliser
In all that time not one womble or police car that drove past me stopped to see if I was alright or alive even.
4 days wallowing around the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Africa waiting for a salvage tug to come and grab hold of us and tow us to Las Palmas on Gran Canaria where we spent seven glorious weeks, never objected to that at all …
Mid 1970s, AEC Marshall. I must have started around midnight. At 5am ish pulled off the M1 on the way to Leicester market and my foot slipped off the clutch pedal. This then happened again at the next couple of gear changes. The reason turned out to be that was covered in oil. Lifted the bonnet to find the air cleaner had fallen off. Put it back on and checked the engine oil. Very low so added a gallon from the can I carried and rang in to the duty fitter. Carried on to the market and tipped what was for Leicester while waiting for local AEC agent (Ford and Slater?) to come out. Fitter tilted the cab to find a cracked oil feed pipe for the Power steering pump drive. He takes pipe back to dealership and returns after brazing the crack. Job done? No, as he comes round the n/s of the lorry to release the cab tilt prop he sees that the n/s front spring has several broken leaves. We decide that recovery is not going to work since the lorry has a good load still on so better to follow him back to the workshop. It was about 8pm before the lorry was finished because IIRC they had to wait while they collected a spring from another depot and because the lorry was so heavy on the front end it caused a few problems. Wrote a few fairy stories in the log book and drove off to whatever digs I had rung earlier, which I think was a cafe on the A6 somewhere between Quorn and Mountsorrel.
lol 9 hrs in the 80s ,side o M6 slip road in a LHD drawbar south o BRUM ,had to wait for a drawbar outfit ( same company ) heading north droped a piston (air cooled deutz),I had unbolted the prop waiting hehe …was dark by the time he arrived solid bar on the back of his trailer to the front of my wagon …changed over the batteries / filled up my airtanks as mine were done and off we went … kin like a raped ape kin overtaook folk as well up to garage at Carlisle .cant see that happening now 2 full length outfits on a bar thank f for Cbs .