Craig Duncan
Director
Trucking Hell (2018)
Season 2
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.
Released May 17, 2018
Episode 50 min
2+
Genres: Documentary, Reality
Keywords: imdb.observational-documentary, imdb.truck, imdb.truck-driver, imdb.breakdown, imdb.tow-truck, imdb.overturned, imdb.heavy-lifting + 3 more, imdb.recovery-team, imdb.male-narrator, imdb.two-word-title
Watch Providers: Tubi TV, The Roku Channel
Production Companies: Crackit Productions, Channel 5 Television
Network: 5
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Episode 1
A 44 tonne Artic straddling the central reservation of the M1 is a rush hour headache for Incident Manager Steve and his colleague Pat. Recovery op Steve rescues a broken down dustcart from a busy London street. Recovery op Jim gets drenched as he risks life and limb trying to rescue a tractor.
Jan. 3, 2019, midnight
S2E2 - Episode 2
Incident manager Steve is called to the scene of an overturned gas tanker that, while Sean is asked to pick up an abandoned scaffolding lorry
Jan. 10, 2019, midnight
S2E3 - Episode 3
Recovery operation Jim and heavy vehicle mechanic Jack are called out to help a loaded HGV with a puncture, and a fuel tanker is stranded in an SOS bay on the M25
Jan. 17, 2019, midnight
S2E4 - Episode 4
A road in Leicester is blocked by a 26-tonne digger, while rescue specialists Richard and Lee have the unusual job of retrieving a load of straw from a broken down trailer
Jan. 24, 2019, midnight
S2E5 - Episode 5
A 40-tonne lorry overturns and spills its load, forcing a major road to close. Meanwhile, heavy recruit specialist is called to recover two crashed cars from the side of the M69
Jan. 31, 2019, midnight
S2E6 - Episode 6
Father-and-son duo Dave and Adam try to recover a lorry transporting a 100-tonne train engine, while rookie driver Warren has to move a HGV on the busy M1
Feb. 7, 2019, midnight
S2E7 - Episode 7
The Crouch team deals with some monster jobs, while Simon and his crew have to grapple with a juggernaut that has skidded off the M62 and down a steep bank
Feb. 14, 2019, midnight
S2E8 - Episode 8
A luxury coach breaks down on a busy motor way slip road, and recovery operative Jon is on hand to try and tow the vehicle amid heavy traffic and misty conditions
Feb. 21, 2019, midnight
S2E9 - Episode 9
A huge 32-tonne tipper truck has slid down a dirt embankment and is lying on its side, and a lorry stuck in reverse severely blocking traffic in Leicester city centre
Feb. 28, 2019, midnight
S2E10 - Episode 10
Crane operator Nick is called out to a particularly unusual job on a recycling plant. Meanwhile, recovery operative Jim faces a hazardous callout
March 7, 2019, midnight
S2E11 - Episode 11
Jim and his team face a difficult foggy morning on the M1 when a crash between two artics causes a five-mile-long tailback
March 14, 2019, midnight
S2E12 - Episode 12
Veteran driver Jim attends an emergency call-out to recover a lorry that has broken down bang in the middle of a busy ring road. Motor racing fanatic Merrie has a hunch she may have landed her dream job when she attends a broken down lorry.
March 19, 2019, midnight
S2E13 - Episode 13
Steve and his team attempt to recover a car that has crashed into a river, while Jim is tasked with recovering a van that has become wedged on top of a garden wall.
March 21, 2019, midnight
S2E14 - Episode 14
Steve battles rush hour traffic to manoeuvre his recovery vehicle around the narrow roads to get to a 7.5-tonne lorry out of a ditch, while Rory must deliver a dodgy van to a scrapyard for destruction.
March 28, 2019, midnight
S2E15 - Episode 15
Lantern's only female driver Merrie is tasked with the removal of an abandoned lorry, but it is soon clear this will not be a routine job. As she takes a closer look, she discovers that not only has the lorry been used as a mobile home, but that it is housing many a guilty secret.
April 4, 2019, midnight
S2E16 - Episode 16
Rory risks life and limb to recovered a skip lorry from the M1. Jim has a happy reunion with his own truck. Chris has to find a way of separating two HGVs that have somehow become wedged together.
April 11, 2019, midnight
S2E17 - Episode 17
Jim faces mayhem on the motorway when a massive pile-up blocks the busy M1.
April 18, 2019, midnight
S2E18 - Episode 18
Marta and Pat have to pull a bin lorry out of a muddy ditch. But first they must battle their way through a thick wall of thorns.
April 25, 2019, midnight
S2E19 - Episode 19
Jim and Steve face one of their riskiest recoveries when a tanker carrying highly corrosive pure sulphuric acid smashes into the central reservation of a busy road.
May 2, 2019, midnight
S2E20 - Episode 20
It is all hands to the pumps at a bus depot in Tamworth, where Crouch's finest are joined by Lanterns' Merrie. Just days after Christmas the owners lost their school coaches to a devastating fire and need the wreckage removed.
May 9, 2019, midnight
Network: 5
Episode Runtime: 50 min.
Season Runtime: 6195 min.
Released: May 17, 2018
Last Air Date: July 17, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-G / 2+
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