Always use heavy duty (Typically 5 tonne) Car Recovery Straps. Light weight straps are simply not up to the job of securing a heavy car to the trailer in the event of emergency manouvers.
Traffic on a motorway is travelling very fast. If you need to return to the motorway from the hard shoulder, use the hard shoulder to gain speed until you are travelling fast enough to merge with the Motorway traffic.
Can I use a smaller winch like those you see on specialist 4x4 offroad vehicles on my recovery truck? They are cheaper, smaller and lighter....View Entire Thread
Situated in the Amber Vally, Derbyshire, during the past two hundred years the main industries in Ripley have been a steelworks, coal mining, quarrying, railway, foundry and brickworks. One interesting fact about Ripley is that, according to research and the analysis of names in Britain in 2006, Ripley has the highest proportion of people of ethnic English origin in the UK. Of Ripley's inhabitants over 88 percent have an English ethnic background.