Trucking Hell

Season 8

TV-14
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.

Where to Watch Season 8

20 Episodes

  • Episode 1
    E1
    Episode 1There's an emergency in East London when a 25-ton truck hits a railway bridge. And Buzz needs to co-ordinate a multi-agency taskforce when a refrigerated lorry catches fire on the A42.
  • Episode 2
    E2
    Episode 2Jobs include a bulker trailer that has burst into flames, a heavily laden truck that is wedged in soft mud by a busy dual carriageway, and a tractor unit with a broken prop shaft.
  • Episode 3
    E3
    Episode 3In a 600-metre-long tunnel on the M25, Steve and Daniel must combine forces to try to shift a 44-ton unit and trailer stacked full of breeze blocks.
  • Episode 4
    E4
    Episode 4Rescue teams are required for a 22-tonne houseboat washed up on a muddy bank of the River Trent by storm babet, and a tractor unit and trailer with a trashed gearbox.
  • Episode 5
    E5
    Episode 5There’s an emergency in Nottinghamshire when the ground gives way beneath a tipper truck fully loaded with stone aggregate. In Middlesborough, a bus gets grounded on a grassy verge.
  • Episode 6
    E6
    Episode 6A 45-tonne crane gets caught out by a crumbling curb, Mouse performs a late-night recovery of a tanker that’s slipped into a sodden gully and a damaged family saloon needs rescuing.
  • Episode 7
    E7
    Episode 7Sean is tasked with recovering a 17-tonne telehandler that’s tumbled off a track, landing upside down in a ditch, while Mouse tries to recover a broken-down bus.
  • Episode 8
    E8
    Episode 8A 44-tonne articulated lorry has attempted to drive up a hill, hit sleet ice, slid back down out of control and jackknifed, leaving it wedged across both sides of the road.
  • Episode 9
    E9
    Episode 9Rescue teams deal with a car transporter that goes up in smoke during rush hour, a car that took a nosedive down a steep bank, and a single decker bus stuck in mud on a mini roundabout.
  • Episode 10
    E10
    Episode 10In Northumberland, bad weather causes an emergency in the A1 involving an 18-tonne truck. Plus a tricky recovery on the 17th fairway of a golf course when a beer truck grinds to a halt.
  • Episode 11
    E11
    Episode 11In the north east of England, Alpha recovery ops Kevin and Ian battle the snow and ice to rescue a stricken fuel tanker that's slipped off a frozen track while making a delivery. With nowhere to turn and limited space they must perform a tricky reverse winch pull using hundreds of metres of line. They're relying on a tree as an anchor point and the power of their 4x4 road rescuer. It's a risky manoeuvre, if they get it wrong the cable could snap causing carnage.
  • Episode 12
    E12
    Episode 12Lantern recovery op Stuart has been tasked with rescuing a 26-tonne sewage tanker, fully loaded with waste material, that has got its nearside wheels wedged in a drainage ditch down a narrow muddy track. On top of having barely any room to manoeuvre, the tanker's tilting dangerously to one side, so Stuart must try and get the monster back onto solid ground without it toppling over.
  • Episode 13
    E13
    Episode 13The team endure an epic clean-up after a lorry carrying tonnes of curry sauce jars collides with a huge artic. Gary battles a bin wagon on a dirt track. Euan has a tug of war with a tanker.
  • Episode 14
    E14
    Episode 14Kev and Gary face a Herculean task extracting a fully loaded 44 tonne artic from a forest. Recovery op Bodhan finds himself under a bus in central London.
  • Episode 15
    E15
    Episode 15When Storm Isha hits Northumberland, Mouse attempts a dangerous rescue in high winds; Mick saves a dustcart from toppling over and Steve hauls a fully loaded tanker out of the mud.
  • Episode 16
    E16
    Episode 16In the North East, a truck has taken a tumble into a ditch in the dead of night. In Leicestershire, Snods has got his hands full craning a car out of a field.
  • Episode 17
    E17
    Episode 17Mouse is tasked with recovering a delivery vehicle that’s blown onto its side and Dan is attempting to remove the remains of a burnt-out tar truck.
  • Episode 18
    E18
    Episode 18Wild weather wrecks havoc as Gary and Kevin lift a trailer in the Pennines.
  • Episode 19
    E19
    Episode 19Ian faces danger working metres from a live lane to rescue a truck in trouble. Merrie must extract an arctic sinking in the sand without getting beached herself.
  • Episode 20
    E20
    Episode 20A rolled over tipper truck on a busy road has the Crouch crew scrambling. A vandalised motorhome with broken steering needs saving from a driveway.

Cast of Season 8

  • Kieran O'Brien
  • Craig DuncanDirector

 

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