There's an emergency in Nottinghamshire when the ground gives way beneath a tipper truck fully loaded with stone aggregate. By the time Operations Manager Steve arrives on the scene, the truck is hanging precariously over a six-foot ditch.

The incident has taken place on a notorious stretch of road and Steve has serious concerns for other drivers. Police are called in to organise a road closure while Steve calls for back up to help haul the lorry to safety. When colleagues Lee and Dave arrive with their recovery trucks the race is on to save the stricken tipper. Steve sends Lee's wrecker to the lorry's flank to lift it with a set of straps while Dave heads to the rear to haul the lorry out backwards. But once the lorry is upright Steve changes strategy. The safer option is to pull the lorry out forwards but to accomplish that the lads will need to set up a special winch and use a large tree as an anchor to carry out a complicated reverse pull. Lee holds the truck steady, Dave sets the winch in motion and the challenge is on.

Meanwhile in Middlesbrough, Dave has a task on his hands when the number 63 bus to Redcar gets grounded on a grassy verge. Dave needs to carry out a tricky reversing manoeuvre to winch the bus off the verge. Things get complicated when a swarm of motorists attempt to overtake.

Elsewhere, Daniel needs to get his hands dirty when a delivery truck is damaged after a collision with a car. The steering and brakes are both out of action, and roadside repairs are needed to get the wheels turning. Twenty-five miles away, Daniel's colleague Sean faces a mechanical mystery when a dust cart grinds to a halt in Hertfordshire.

In Northamptonshire, Sean's tasked with recovering a 17-tonne telehandler that's tumbled off a narrow gravel track and ended upside down at the bottom of a ditch. With fellow op Steve's help, he uses a strop around a tree trunk and a second around the telehandler to haul it back upright. Once re-rigged, some careful choreography with his remote control eventually eases it back onto solid ground. But their plan is only half complete. They still need to get it to the end of the dirt track, but soon discover that a major oil leak has left it without steering which works off the hydraulics. Can they quickly find a solution to complete this complex recovery?

Just south of Loughborough, Kevin McCluskey has to rescue a fully-laden delivery truck that has been left dead in the water after the driver and his mate attempted to pass through a flooded section of B-road. Kev's strategy is to attach j-hooks to the truck's axle and haul it free of the floodwater with his winch cable. Kev braves the icy water to attach the j-hooks but with the underside completely submerged, it's a fiddly business. Getting rigged is one thing, but steering the truck onto the back of his low loader without it taking a tumble will be a true test of Kevin's skills.

And on the outskirts of Newcastle, Mouse is called to recover a broken-down bus. Engine failure has left the double decker marooned on a busy T-junction, severely restricting the flow of traffic. A rear end lift and shift is impossible, so Mouse needs to position himself at the front of the bus. But with Newcastle's motorists turning up the heat, he will need to work quickly if he wants an easy end to his week!