You do not necessarily require a very large electric winch to recover cars onto your transporter. Smaller 4x4 style winches will do the job but be aware that the drum speed may be much slower than that of a larger winch.
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.
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I regularily move cars in the course of my business, I am a used car dealer here in the south. I have been using an A-Frame to move cars too and from the auction etc but have been told this is illegal. Instead I am thinking of getting a recovery truck like a converted transit or a flat bed car trail...View Entire Thread