Got to love the way the TV shows loads of people at highways in a control room surrounded by screens. The reality sounded like Janice was working from home sending an email asking someone if they could change the matrix boards when they get back from lunch 😂
he spoke to the CCC (Customer Contact Centre) and not those in the control room. A control works log would be setup and that log gets passed over to the control room - exactly the same way as the Police, Fire or Ambo work.
@@terryfoster1706 it's hard because the only way we get to speak to CCC is via the log.. we can call customers directly though from the control room so we should be doing that to speak with the people on scene. Much faster resolutions that way!
You would think, though, that when it comes to safety on a "smart" motorway, that immediate communication between the call takers and the technical people would be a priority. I mean immediate, person to person, voice communication, not a text chat system or web based "problem tracker". The call centre should ideally be in the room next door, so if anything major or rapid occurs, they can literally stand up from their desk and walk through a door to tell someone what's happening.
For those that dont know this is an everyday occurrence for motorway recovery operatives. Absolutely disgusting behaviour from people who simply do not care whether people live or die. What you see on the TV is not the reality of recovery life. If you ever wonder why recovery from a motorway isn't cheap you know the answer now. Simple recoveries put our lives at risk day in day out and take hours instead of minutes!! Another trying circumstance expertly sorted by GDB Rescue & Recovery! Spot on Greg!
Thanks for the comment! Appreciate it. Its certainly not just me! Trying to show more motorway jobs now as people cant believe how dangerous they are for roadside workers etc TV is very glamorised! Thanks again GDB
Every hour the motorways people keep everyone waiting is £100 (probably more in reality) someone is paying for absolutely nothing to happen. If the breakdown is a commerical vehicle, now you've got the potential for maybe £1000 per hour or wasted time between everyone involved. All for the sake of arbitrary targets in how many lane closures they have per month.
Can you imagine the interview for a highways job. Have you ever driven a motor vehicle - no. Have you ever been on a motorway- no, do you have a clue about anything- no. Perfect you are ideal for the job.
@@TheRoadGuy-rm5ci From my experience on the M40 some years ago you have TWO sections of 'Highways' to deal with. 1: the control room & 2: the guys on the road. Control are the chocolate fire guard, the guys on the road try to be helpful. 07:03 northbound M40, blew a top hose tugging a 25ft Tri Axle. Couldn't get a signal on my phone, walked to the road phone. Spoke to control, told them what had happened, gave the my breakdown details, reg number etc. "LEAVE IT WITH ME" the voice said. 1 1/4 hours on a Highways England Shogun pulled up behind the trailer. They hadn't been sent by control, just cruising along the road and saw me. I was on the hard shoulder on a long left hand bend, any one of the trucks that strayed over the line would have wiped my rig out. They towed me off the motorway to a layby where I was able to phone a proper control and get help. As for the so-called "Smart motorways", there is NOTHING smart about them, they are a major disaster waiting to happen and probably devised by a lycra clad cyclist.
Doing splendid work. Always nice when the client or person broken down is competent and familiar. The fact he could use ratchet straps and was able to load is a big plus This should knowledge shared amongst everyone . Little life skills like this are priceless.
Well Greg that was a great display of how highways staff are so inadequate at what they do, . So much for safety on our motorways. Great job buddy hope you get better service next time.
I have always slowed down and moved over if I happen across a broken down vehicle or recovery , takes seconds, saves lives, taught all my kids the same thing too
Oh just a little observation but when I did a course on roadside working we were instructed that if we stop next to a barrier or wall on our near side then we should have the van wheels on full right lock, then if it’s struck up the arse it doesn’t try and get between the solid barrier and the casualty. 👍
BTW, that TYPICAL for any Cop to ask"Do you know how long its going to be to get loaded up?", after waiting around playing Thumb Twiddle for a helloval long time.. i would just ONCE love to here someone say, 'My turn now mate, your gonna have to wait for me to get this job finished no matter how long it takes to do it safely'. Nice cop, but they put pressure on the poor bugger to get the lanes open.
Brilliant when you're running back to the truck.... "I'll be as quick as I can!" - shame HATO can't do the same. Tbh I would've just strolled back, but the professional nature within you wants to get the job done, minimise risk and get the hell outta there!! Well done Greg. Deffo the recovery team I will call if I need you (South Derbys). Keep up the top work!
Thanks Greg. You continue to make the very best of these potentially hazardous situations. Love your no shortcuts approach when it comes to being safe and would like to see Highways treating these calls for help with more urgency and action. Control room staff would benefit from time spent physically working on the side of the motorway to truly experience HGV's flying past.
I just get the vibe you are considered a troublesome pest by the highway authorities. There seems to be no set protocol. Your company should have a registered call sign/ code, so the call centre knows exactly who they are dealing with, & their expertise; aka the real live intellegence of potential danger from proffesionals. Stay safe, stay warm.
Hi Greg. If I didn't see it with my own eyes I would never have believed it !!!!!!!!! What do Highways do all day???!!!!!!!!!!🤔 Not wishing to sound sexist but some of the women in @ Highways are brilliant @ What they do.THEY ARE SO WELL ORGANISED! Some of the chaps look 'fed up' doing their job which is not a very comforting good impression /presentation when YOU, Recovery Manager & customer STUCK IN A BLOODY LIVE LANE!!!!!! In order to protect People/ passengers that break down on Motorways / carriageways, they should automatically( IF THEY WATCHING THEIR CAMERAS???!!!!!!) secure the lane on the Matrix / send a Highways or the Police to temp close the lane off. It's THAT SIMPLE TO KEEP EVERYONE SAFE!!!!!! TO BE HANGING AROUND WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO SECURE A LIVE LANE FOR ALMOST AN HOUR IS FAR TOO LONG!!!!!!! HIGHWAYS WOULDNT WAIT THAT LONG IN BEING 'SITTING DUCKS'!!!!!!!!! YOU & THE CUSTOMER HAVE FAMILIES & A HOME TOO!!!!!!! Great video, Greg. WHAT AN INSIGHT!!!!!!!! Hope you managed to get to your next customer ok. 👍 Keep Safe & Well ALWAYS. 👍
Welldone with your patience in a dangerous situation Greg,better could be said about motorway safety police.couldnt ignore the merc sprinter broke down behind you! 👊
Great video as always, really enjoy them, when i see any breakdown recovery on the hard shoulder i all ways move over as you never know what maybe happen. best wishes,say safe.
I have always said well since about 20 years ago that driving lessons should include motorway driving and so should the test ,thanks for the video keep safe
What a jobs worth the highways guy was ,the government has already published the white paper to make rear facing red flashing lights legal for recovery vehicles so why make an issue of it. As for the guys views on smart motorways!, I admire his confidence that drivers actually know what the red x means ,you only have to look at where he's placed his warning sign not 100 yards or more from the vehicle but by the bumper.
I have no idea what he was going on about in terms of your red lights they are legal, also the issue with smart motorways is exactly what he said it is down to the nut behind the wheel, all it takes is one HGV to miss the sign and your dead. I think the displays are great but the hard shoulder should still remain it was only removed to save money a mixture of the two would be great. On control room staff it is the same across the board you have great ones and you have the jobsworths in all services as someone who used to work on private ambulances I am more than aware of those staff who have no idea. They should be required to sit in on a ride-along as part of the training for a week to see what the conditions are really like, I have had to work in live lane three once late at night and was so grateful when the highways staff turned up to move the vehicle, for all the grief they get they do a job I wouldn't want to do.
Couldnt you have pulled the x5 and trailer together to move it over? I know not ideal for the BMW, but a few metres wont do much damage, only like pulling it onto the trailer
I have realised that puts the vehicles in the wrong order and you wouldn't have been able to get the trailer hooked up without driving down to J2 and back up to J4, although that might still have been quicker than waiting for highways!
I had the exact same thing with a Womble trying to tell me I couldn’t have rear reds on my van. I said to him “I’d rather be arguing with you about them than my mrs talking to a undertaker about me” in this instance I was at a serious crash involving one of our coaches and there was a lot of traffic police on scene and they didn’t bat a eyelid. I’ve had police attendance at various jobs since and they say nothing. Highways’s need to mind their own bloody business!!! Also that guy from highways is 💯 wrong, smart motorways are bloody dangerous and are simply motorway widening on the cheap! There is a reason they have stopped building any more of them, it’s because they are shite. Yes the hard shoulder is not ideal but I’d take that over a live lane all day and night!
Although its boring the length of the video spent waiting for the highway buggers to get there ass in gear was the first time i really got frustrated and appreciated how shit it is for you. Watching those lorries go past was bad enough, let alone being there!
Lane 1 closed and yet a white van moved over to Lane 1... I have rescue recovery experience and currently a health and safety coordinator. I'm always looking for vacancies within highways.
I’m subscribed to another TH-camr lukecinahgv and he was filming on a go pro driving past a incident and the amount of people driving through the red x until they got to the incident and cutting in was ridiculous
There are a lot of "if onlys" with this... if only that van had a towbar, if only he'd got about 4 metres further along, if only Highways Agency weren't so fucking useless.
Hi greg,wow that was really hard to watch and I've gotta say these highways guys obviously don't value their own lives let alone yours as that guy that turned up seemed to have all day to stand around a busy dangerous motorway ffs,the people in the control room need to spend a week with you greg and see how they feel then,my temper couldn't let me do your job dealing with these idiots,cheers greg and be safe out there👍
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Highways guy is on glue coming out with that statement about hard shoulder
I literally do not understand HOW it takes them this long to get the process moving. You've given them a location, a safety justification, and an estimated time to complete which indicates minimal disruption will be caused. You're an established recovery firm whose name should be increasingly recognisable. It should then be a simple matter of data entry, followed by a rubber-stamp from a supervisor, to get it set up. I'd be surprised if it took as much as 5 minutes - and we've seen the actual Highways officers get it sorted out very promptly, with their direct line to the control room. So the problem is evidently that the call centre do not have the same direct line to the control room that the mobile officers do.
@@TheRoadGuy-rm5ciWhats the point. Won’t change a thing. The whole system is useless and you can tell nobody gives a rats behind. Just like most people now.
If you had a 30 second lane closure to move the trailer over would you then have to ring back to get another lane closure to hitch up the trailer and then to pull infront of the BMW
Have you tried shoulder camera due to some time the chast cam not as good as POV but I know I can get inch all the time of POV just a little idea but I love the video
I really do not understand how these people keep their jobs... Unbelievable how ridiculous these people are. Utter jobsworths! Greg, I am not sure how you keep your cool!
It's insane how poor highway controllers are sometimes. If you call them asking to close a lane, close the lane first, then ask questions! They shouldn't question you for half an hour! Terrible, sorry you had to deal with that.
It doesn't work like that - you can't simple as for a L1 closure - there's policies in place for a reason. Otherwise, any Tom Dick or Harry could call up and get any lane on the motorway closed.
@@TheRoadGuy-rm5ci I understand that, but it’s an issue of safety. What if the trailer had been a few inches further, would’ve definitely taken out a driver.
@@TheRoadGuy-rm5ci There is no reason at all. All they have to do is have a procedure setup whereby known recovery drivers are accepted immediately as being honest. "It doesn't work like that"? No, clearly, but it SHOULD work like that. Are lives not more important?
@@GDBRescueandrecovery I’m a scaffolder and we literally have to wear every single bit of Ppe even on peoples houses, because otherwise we get reported and fined and lose work, but for them to take so long and I bet they was thinking of even just saying to you to deal with it normally is criminal I feel for you mate
Great job Greg typical highways saying smart motorways are safe if that was a smart motor 30 mins for an officer to arrive on scene, you would have been struck and I think all recovery operators should have red flashing lights also the driving test should educate drivers about what to do. Stay safe guys you all provide a great service to the motoring community
At 33:44 highways officer says "if there was no hard shoulder we wouldn't be having this conversation". No, they would have a breakdown sat in a live lane. Also if this was a smart motorway there is a good chance breakdown would not have reached a refuge so would be sat in a live lane. Interesting that you have 'faith' in the red X to close off a lane, I certainly do not. The number of lorries I notice carrying on in the lane with the red X with an attitude of "I can see there is nothing in this lane, I will move out when I see the obstruction", must admit mainly foreign drivers. If smart motorways are so safe then why are Highways putting extra refuges in?
high lift jack aka ratchet jack ,4x4 ,landrover jack or farm jack , ,would have moved the trailer in 30 seconds ,lift and slew , can also be used for pulling ,pushing
That had me screaming at highways for taking the beep not sure I would have kept my cool like you did not many things scare me but breaking down on the motorway & just making it across safely is terrifying to even think
You could have cut the 20/25 mins where you were waiting for highway patrols to get back to you and put a caption that it took x amount of time for them to get back to you. Turned a 15 mins video into a 45 mins video. Glad you stayed safe and got it sorted. Stay blessed 💪🏽
I agree Greg, if you’d cut that out and put a caption people wouldn’t understand half as much. It’s about raising awareness as well as creating an entertaining video. Cracking job as ever.
Whilst waiting and criticising I would have used the ratchet straps to pull th tail of the trailer towards the barrier. Slow but not as slow as Highways.
Ratchet straps are not a winch. They do not increase torque. They would not have pulled the trailer closer to the barrier unless you are heman, and if you were heman you could have pulled the trailer in the first place If you had a come along winch yea you could have done that, no one carries one though
@@LTD347 Agree a Ratchet is not a winch, but can be rigged to give a mechanical advantage from trailer around the railing back to the trailer if you know what you are doing. But perhaps "waiting time" was also a factor. I can get my ratchets a lot tighter than I could by just pulling and by leading it upwards you are also reducing, albeit slightly the weight on the tyres. I've been stuck when my trailer slid sideways off a track in snow and used a similar method, so I know it works.
Brilliant video. How many questions does this raise? Why did it take so long to put a lane closure in place. It was ridiculous the amount of time you was at the road side. On another note when you were towing his trailer with his equipment are you insured? Just asking a question. Not being a knobhead 😂😂
Surely that goes down to the customers liability, they restrained it down with their straps, on their trailer, Greg only recovered a loaded trailer, bloody well done Greg, top job 😮😮
I always try and move over even if there's someone in a hard shoulder or layby, if I can't I'll slow down. Had aggressive drivers before when moving over but rather keep road workers safe and ignore the road rage. I hate the motorways, seen them set the signs back to national a gantry too early so everyone went from 40 to national right next to the breakdown. I stuck to the 40 to get past them safely and lorry behind flashing, beeping and inches from my bumper. M27 Westbound is terrible for lorry drivers and M3 Northbound for car drivers.
Hard shoulders need to come back and double the width, problem is you'd get idiots stopping for a picnic 😂 or hgvs on a night out, they need to be off road refuge / parking areas like in Europe
Wow that traffic office was talking a load of 💩 definitely not seen and experience the bad side of smart motorways wait untill the day he breaks down in a live lane with no flashing red lights
Seems to be a few contributing problems.. staff not having the authority to do things and lack of training to understand the road side jobs that need to be done and the associated risks. They need to send their control room people out with recovery drivers for a day or two!
Ive watched a few of your videos now. I cant understand why in this day in age yhe TOs cant set lane closures from there cars. They have a tablet/laptop onboard for doing incident reports.
They won’t widen hard shoulders or make ERA’s longer, wider, and more frequent on smart motorways because it would involve taking up extra land and would apparently cost extraordinary amounts of money when you add up the cost and space the extra land would take up over miles and miles of motorway / smart motorway. It’s a classic case of doing the absolute minimum in order to reduce cost and space. Everything! is about money these days even if it means the increased risk to life. I was told this during a CPC course with a section within it that dealt with smart motorways and motorways in general. 🙁
Epic fail once again from Highways. I despair with them I really do. Too much bureaucracy and no-one wanting to make a simple decision or take control of a situation.
Why not just hook up to the BMW and move it forward to a safer position then do the swap over? Also why go on a motorway recovery with a vehicle with a winch?
That is by far the worse recovery of a 4x4 and trailer on the motorway i have seen, no lane closure needed if the correct recovery vehicle dispatched, at least 40 minutes wasted endangering other road users, 15 minute job with correct tools, highways not to blame all down to operator, pleased your taking some time out, maybe subscribe in some recovery / risk assessment courses, and for all you fools out there it was not a good job Mr GDB !!!!
Got to love the way the TV shows loads of people at highways in a control room surrounded by screens. The reality sounded like Janice was working from home sending an email asking someone if they could change the matrix boards when they get back from lunch 😂
Yeah EXACTLY. 😂 thanks for watch! GDB
he spoke to the CCC (Customer Contact Centre) and not those in the control room. A control works log would be setup and that log gets passed over to the control room - exactly the same way as the Police, Fire or Ambo work.
@@TheRoadGuy-rm5ci, probable not allowed or able to speak to the control room staff directly.
@@terryfoster1706 it's hard because the only way we get to speak to CCC is via the log.. we can call customers directly though from the control room so we should be doing that to speak with the people on scene. Much faster resolutions that way!
You would think, though, that when it comes to safety on a "smart" motorway, that immediate communication between the call takers and the technical people would be a priority. I mean immediate, person to person, voice communication, not a text chat system or web based "problem tracker". The call centre should ideally be in the room next door, so if anything major or rapid occurs, they can literally stand up from their desk and walk through a door to tell someone what's happening.
For those that dont know this is an everyday occurrence for motorway recovery operatives. Absolutely disgusting behaviour from people who simply do not care whether people live or die. What you see on the TV is not the reality of recovery life. If you ever wonder why recovery from a motorway isn't cheap you know the answer now. Simple recoveries put our lives at risk day in day out and take hours instead of minutes!! Another trying circumstance expertly sorted by GDB Rescue & Recovery! Spot on Greg!
Thanks for the comment! Appreciate it. Its certainly not just me! Trying to show more motorway jobs now as people cant believe how dangerous they are for roadside workers etc
TV is very glamorised!
Thanks again GDB
Every hour the motorways people keep everyone waiting is £100 (probably more in reality) someone is paying for absolutely nothing to happen.
If the breakdown is a commerical vehicle, now you've got the potential for maybe £1000 per hour or wasted time between everyone involved.
All for the sake of arbitrary targets in how many lane closures they have per month.
Can you imagine the interview for a highways job. Have you ever driven a motor vehicle - no. Have you ever been on a motorway- no, do you have a clue about anything- no. Perfect you are ideal for the job.
it's actually quite difficult to complete - would be happy to go into detail if you wish?
@@TheRoadGuy-rm5ci From my experience on the M40 some years ago you have TWO sections of 'Highways' to deal with. 1: the control room & 2: the guys on the road. Control are the chocolate fire guard, the guys on the road try to be helpful.
07:03 northbound M40, blew a top hose tugging a 25ft Tri Axle. Couldn't get a signal on my phone, walked to the road phone. Spoke to control, told them what had happened, gave the my breakdown details, reg number etc. "LEAVE IT WITH ME" the voice said. 1 1/4 hours on a Highways England Shogun pulled up behind the trailer. They hadn't been sent by control, just cruising along the road and saw me. I was on the hard shoulder on a long left hand bend, any one of the trucks that strayed over the line would have wiped my rig out. They towed me off the motorway to a layby where I was able to phone a proper control and get help.
As for the so-called "Smart motorways", there is NOTHING smart about them, they are a major disaster waiting to happen and probably devised by a lycra clad cyclist.
Don't forget "have you already tried to join the police but failed?" 😂
Do you want to pretend you are the Police? Yes. Jobs yours
@@recall2880 the small minded people with the "pretend police" - god help you if you ever need anyone to help you!
Doing splendid work. Always nice when the client or person broken down is competent and familiar. The fact he could use ratchet straps and was able to load is a big plus
This should knowledge shared amongst everyone . Little life skills like this are priceless.
Well Greg that was a great display of how highways staff are so inadequate at what they do, . So much for safety on our motorways. Great job buddy hope you get better service next time.
I have always slowed down and moved over if I happen across a broken down vehicle or recovery , takes seconds, saves lives, taught all my kids the same thing too
Oh just a little observation but when I did a course on roadside working we were instructed that if we stop next to a barrier or wall on our near side then we should have the van wheels on full right lock, then if it’s struck up the arse it doesn’t try and get between the solid barrier and the casualty. 👍
BTW, that TYPICAL for any Cop to ask"Do you know how long its going to be to get loaded up?", after waiting around playing Thumb Twiddle for a helloval long time.. i would just ONCE love to here someone say, 'My turn now mate, your gonna have to wait for me to get this job finished no matter how long it takes to do it safely'. Nice cop, but they put pressure on the poor bugger to get the lanes open.
Always happy when you post a new video 😊
Brilliant when you're running back to the truck.... "I'll be as quick as I can!" - shame HATO can't do the same. Tbh I would've just strolled back, but the professional nature within you wants to get the job done, minimise risk and get the hell outta there!! Well done Greg. Deffo the recovery team I will call if I need you (South Derbys). Keep up the top work!
Thanks Greg. You continue to make the very best of these potentially hazardous situations.
Love your no shortcuts approach when it comes to being safe and would like to see Highways treating these calls for help with more urgency and action. Control room staff would benefit from time spent physically working on the side of the motorway to truly experience HGV's flying past.
I just get the vibe you are considered a troublesome pest by the highway authorities. There seems to be no set protocol. Your company should have a registered call sign/ code, so the call centre knows exactly who they are dealing with, & their expertise; aka the real live intellegence of potential danger from proffesionals. Stay safe, stay warm.
Hi Greg.
If I didn't see it with my own eyes I would never have believed it !!!!!!!!! What do Highways do all day???!!!!!!!!!!🤔
Not wishing to sound sexist but some of the women in @ Highways are brilliant @ What they do.THEY ARE SO WELL ORGANISED! Some of the chaps look 'fed up' doing their job which is not a very comforting good impression
/presentation when YOU, Recovery Manager & customer STUCK IN A BLOODY LIVE LANE!!!!!!
In order to protect People/ passengers that break down on Motorways / carriageways, they should automatically( IF THEY WATCHING THEIR CAMERAS???!!!!!!) secure the lane on the Matrix / send a Highways or the Police to temp close the lane off. It's THAT SIMPLE TO KEEP EVERYONE SAFE!!!!!!
TO BE HANGING AROUND WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO SECURE A LIVE LANE FOR ALMOST AN HOUR IS FAR TOO LONG!!!!!!! HIGHWAYS WOULDNT WAIT THAT LONG IN BEING 'SITTING DUCKS'!!!!!!!!! YOU & THE CUSTOMER HAVE FAMILIES & A HOME TOO!!!!!!!
Great video, Greg. WHAT AN INSIGHT!!!!!!!!
Hope you managed to get to your next customer ok. 👍
Keep Safe & Well ALWAYS. 👍
Welldone with your patience in a dangerous situation Greg,better could be said about motorway safety police.couldnt ignore the merc sprinter broke down behind you! 👊
Great video as always, really enjoy them, when i see any breakdown recovery on the hard shoulder i all ways move over as you never know what maybe happen. best wishes,say safe.
I have always said well since about 20 years ago that driving lessons should include motorway driving and so should the test ,thanks for the video keep safe
when ever ,i see any vehicle in the hard shoulder. i always try to move into centre lane,if not possible i slow down
Thank you 👏🏻
Another example of people doing a job they can't manage, I can't come right now the kettle has just boiled 😡. 👍
Nice job again mate keep going stay safe 👍
Well done mate
Appreciate the watch as always! GDB
What a jobs worth the highways guy was ,the government has already published the white paper to make rear facing red flashing lights legal for recovery vehicles so why make an issue of it. As for the guys views on smart motorways!, I admire his confidence that drivers actually know what the red x means ,you only have to look at where he's placed his warning sign not 100 yards or more from the vehicle but by the bumper.
Great video upload 👍
I have no idea what he was going on about in terms of your red lights they are legal, also the issue with smart motorways is exactly what he said it is down to the nut behind the wheel, all it takes is one HGV to miss the sign and your dead. I think the displays are great but the hard shoulder should still remain it was only removed to save money a mixture of the two would be great. On control room staff it is the same across the board you have great ones and you have the jobsworths in all services as someone who used to work on private ambulances I am more than aware of those staff who have no idea. They should be required to sit in on a ride-along as part of the training for a week to see what the conditions are really like, I have had to work in live lane three once late at night and was so grateful when the highways staff turned up to move the vehicle, for all the grief they get they do a job I wouldn't want to do.
Couldnt you have pulled the x5 and trailer together to move it over? I know not ideal for the BMW, but a few metres wont do much damage, only like pulling it onto the trailer
I have realised that puts the vehicles in the wrong order and you wouldn't have been able to get the trailer hooked up without driving down to J2 and back up to J4, although that might still have been quicker than waiting for highways!
Great video like all ways thanks for doing them they are all amazing
I had the exact same thing with a Womble trying to tell me I couldn’t have rear reds on my van. I said to him “I’d rather be arguing with you about them than my mrs talking to a undertaker about me” in this instance I was at a serious crash involving one of our coaches and there was a lot of traffic police on scene and they didn’t bat a eyelid. I’ve had police attendance at various jobs since and they say nothing. Highways’s need to mind their own bloody business!!!
Also that guy from highways is 💯 wrong, smart motorways are bloody dangerous and are simply motorway widening on the cheap! There is a reason they have stopped building any more of them, it’s because they are shite.
Yes the hard shoulder is not ideal but I’d take that over a live lane all day and night!
Although its boring the length of the video spent waiting for the highway buggers to get there ass in gear was the first time i really got frustrated and appreciated how shit it is for you. Watching those lorries go past was bad enough, let alone being there!
Lane 1 closed and yet a white van moved over to Lane 1... I have rescue recovery experience and currently a health and safety coordinator. I'm always looking for vacancies within highways.
Does that come with life insurance? My missus is gagging to know!
Just a thought, 🤔 could you have put a ratchet strap from back of trailer to the railing above the wall and pulled the trailer over that way..
I’m subscribed to another TH-camr lukecinahgv and he was filming on a go pro driving past a incident and the amount of people driving through the red x until they got to the incident and cutting in was ridiculous
There are a lot of "if onlys" with this... if only that van had a towbar, if only he'd got about 4 metres further along, if only Highways Agency weren't so fucking useless.
What a shambles. Didn't realise that Highways were this incompetent. But given that this officer loves smart mororways....its no surprise 🙄
Hi greg,wow that was really hard to watch and I've gotta say these highways guys obviously don't value their own lives let alone yours as that guy that turned up seemed to have all day to stand around a busy dangerous motorway ffs,the people in the control room need to spend a week with you greg and see how they feel then,my temper couldn't let me do your job dealing with these idiots,cheers greg and be safe out there👍
Highways guy is on glue coming out with that statement about hard shoulder
I literally do not understand HOW it takes them this long to get the process moving. You've given them a location, a safety justification, and an estimated time to complete which indicates minimal disruption will be caused. You're an established recovery firm whose name should be increasingly recognisable. It should then be a simple matter of data entry, followed by a rubber-stamp from a supervisor, to get it set up. I'd be surprised if it took as much as 5 minutes - and we've seen the actual Highways officers get it sorted out very promptly, with their direct line to the control room.
So the problem is evidently that the call centre do not have the same direct line to the control room that the mobile officers do.
Greg, What's the difference between the Highways mob and a Chocolate Fire Guard. The fire guard is bloody useful is the answer.
😂😂
At the hardshoulder no traffic
Highways are shocking either brilliant or pisspoor. Stay safe greg
time for a winch upgrade I think Greg lol nicely done though how you stay coo with highways is a wonder
You should tweet/email this to them and see if they will buck their ideas up through the public shaming!
They wouldnt care lesss GDB
@@GDBRescueandrecovery happy to give you my email in DMs and I can raise any issues you're having with our OMs in the control room?
@@TheRoadGuy-rm5ciWhats the point. Won’t change a thing. The whole system is useless and you can tell nobody gives a rats behind. Just like most people now.
If you had a 30 second lane closure to move the trailer over would you then have to ring back to get another lane closure to hitch up the trailer and then to pull infront of the BMW
Have you tried shoulder camera due to some time the chast cam not as good as POV but I know I can get inch all the time of POV just a little idea but I love the video
The scary thing is that the driver of the bmw had already been in lane one to take the straps off the van to get it off the trailer!!
Maybe it wasn't quite so busy at that time.... Like if it was 4AM or something 😂
I really do not understand how these people keep their jobs... Unbelievable how ridiculous these people are. Utter jobsworths! Greg, I am not sure how you keep your cool!
Yeah you tell me 😂
It's insane how poor highway controllers are sometimes. If you call them asking to close a lane, close the lane first, then ask questions! They shouldn't question you for half an hour! Terrible, sorry you had to deal with that.
Yuppp hence the reason im starting to post more videos motorway related! GDB
It doesn't work like that - you can't simple as for a L1 closure - there's policies in place for a reason. Otherwise, any Tom Dick or Harry could call up and get any lane on the motorway closed.
@@TheRoadGuy-rm5ci I understand that, but it’s an issue of safety. What if the trailer had been a few inches further, would’ve definitely taken out a driver.
@@TheRoadGuy-rm5ci There is no reason at all. All they have to do is have a procedure setup whereby known recovery drivers are accepted immediately as being honest. "It doesn't work like that"? No, clearly, but it SHOULD work like that. Are lives not more important?
How long does 8t take to flick a f..g switch.!!!!!
Very busy 😢yeh right 😆
Get your coverage or can just connect
Considering how health and safety mad this country is with works, it’s a joke it took you so long to get a lane closed, absolutely appalling
Yepp the exact reason why i post the real videos.
@@GDBRescueandrecovery I’m a scaffolder and we literally have to wear every single bit of Ppe even on peoples houses, because otherwise we get reported and fined and lose work, but for them to take so long and I bet they was thinking of even just saying to you to deal with it normally is criminal I feel for you mate
IT JUST PROVES NO ONE IS WATCHING THE MOTORWAY CAMERAS!!!!!!!!!!!!😔
Great job Greg typical highways saying smart motorways are safe if that was a smart motor 30 mins for an officer to arrive on scene, you would have been struck and I think all recovery operators should have red flashing lights also the driving test should educate drivers about what to do. Stay safe guys you all provide a great service to the motoring community
At 33:44 highways officer says "if there was no hard shoulder we wouldn't be having this conversation". No, they would have a breakdown sat in a live lane. Also if this was a smart motorway there is a good chance breakdown would not have reached a refuge so would be sat in a live lane.
Interesting that you have 'faith' in the red X to close off a lane, I certainly do not. The number of lorries I notice carrying on in the lane with the red X with an attitude of "I can see there is nothing in this lane, I will move out when I see the obstruction", must admit mainly foreign drivers. If smart motorways are so safe then why are Highways putting extra refuges in?
What brand do you wear?
high lift jack aka ratchet jack ,4x4 ,landrover jack or farm jack , ,would have moved the trailer in 30 seconds ,lift and slew , can also be used for pulling ,pushing
That had me screaming at highways for taking the beep not sure I would have kept my cool like you did not many things scare me but breaking down on the motorway & just making it across safely is terrifying to even think
Here we goooooooo 👍👍👍👍
Wahey nice to see that bell icon working! 💪
@@GDBRescueandrecovery always mate brilliant content 👍👍👍
Random question what lights have u fitted on the iveco?
Cant remember what its called think wheelen justice maybe? Im sure one of the followers may comment
You could have cut the 20/25 mins where you were waiting for highway patrols to get back to you and put a caption that it took x amount of time for them to get back to you. Turned a 15 mins video into a 45 mins video. Glad you stayed safe and got it sorted. Stay blessed 💪🏽
Yeah your not wrong! BUT some would not believe it etc! Trying to show more motor way jobs etc. cheers GDB
I agree Greg, if you’d cut that out and put a caption people wouldn’t understand half as much. It’s about raising awareness as well as creating an entertaining video. Cracking job as ever.
@@GDBRescueandrecovery *You're. I've mentioned this on a few of your videos because this crops up on almost every video.
Is it in a live lane YES!!!! Response will be quicker 👍
Super sketchy job well done 👍 Mr GDB but what a Palawa with highways 🛣️
Thanks for the watch! GDB
I thought red lights were permitted on recovery vehicles now, so what is he going on about?
You tell me 😅
Funny how they can make cycle lanes in cities that never get used but can't make hard shoulders wider.
Where did you get your light control (999 mode) from please
Chris at commercial vehicle products in tamworth!
Could you have not used a strap around the railing of the bridge to back end of trailer to edge it over perhaps maybe with an aid of a trolley jack
Get your big trucks ready
Whilst waiting and criticising I would have used the ratchet straps to pull th tail of the trailer towards the barrier. Slow but not as slow as Highways.
Ratchet straps are not a winch. They do not increase torque. They would not have pulled the trailer closer to the barrier unless you are heman, and if you were heman you could have pulled the trailer in the first place
If you had a come along winch yea you could have done that, no one carries one though
@@LTD347 Agree a Ratchet is not a winch, but can be rigged to give a mechanical advantage from trailer around the railing back to the trailer if you know what you are doing. But perhaps "waiting time" was also a factor. I can get my ratchets a lot tighter than I could by just pulling and by leading it upwards you are also reducing, albeit slightly the weight on the tyres. I've been stuck when my trailer slid sideways off a track in snow and used a similar method, so I know it works.
Rachet trailer to the rail on the wall 👌
What is your tv show called love the videos Greg
Brilliant video. How many questions does this raise? Why did it take so long to put a lane closure in place. It was ridiculous the amount of time you was at the road side. On another note when you were towing his trailer with his equipment are you insured? Just asking a question. Not being a knobhead 😂😂
Surely that goes down to the customers liability, they restrained it down with their straps, on their trailer, Greg only recovered a loaded trailer, bloody well done Greg, top job 😮😮
'ey up Greg 😎😎😎
Yooo! Thanks for tuning in as per usual! GDB
The traffic wombles are just a nightmare!
At least the traffic officer didn't get cold hands. They were never out of his pockets. Useless
Highways Agency, the most counterproductive and inefficient group of anything anywhere in the world
I always try and move over even if there's someone in a hard shoulder or layby, if I can't I'll slow down. Had aggressive drivers before when moving over but rather keep road workers safe and ignore the road rage. I hate the motorways, seen them set the signs back to national a gantry too early so everyone went from 40 to national right next to the breakdown. I stuck to the 40 to get past them safely and lorry behind flashing, beeping and inches from my bumper. M27 Westbound is terrible for lorry drivers and M3 Northbound for car drivers.
Hard shoulders need to come back and double the width, problem is you'd get idiots stopping for a picnic 😂 or hgvs on a night out, they need to be off road refuge / parking areas like in Europe
It would have been a great idea to carry a micro winch capacity of 5 tonne and some straps of 20 tonne to winch that across a metre or two.
Hi I think highway s are useless I think the police would do a much better job or not great video keep up with the good work 😎
Wow that traffic office was talking a load of 💩 definitely not seen and experience the bad side of smart motorways wait untill the day he breaks down in a live lane with no flashing red lights
Seems to be a few contributing problems.. staff not having the authority to do things and lack of training to understand the road side jobs that need to be done and the associated risks. They need to send their control room people out with recovery drivers for a day or two!
I would welcome that !!! Said it many of times
Ive watched a few of your videos now.
I cant understand why in this day in age yhe TOs cant set lane closures from there cars.
They have a tablet/laptop onboard for doing incident reports.
Bet you’ve had some good pissing matches against these highway agency blokes!😂
They won’t widen hard shoulders or make ERA’s longer, wider, and more frequent on smart motorways because it would involve taking up extra land and would apparently cost extraordinary amounts of money when you add up the cost and space the extra land would take up over miles and miles of motorway / smart motorway. It’s a classic case of doing the absolute minimum in order to reduce cost and space. Everything! is about money these days even if it means the increased risk to life. I was told this during a CPC course with a section within it that dealt with smart motorways and motorways in general. 🙁
Highways muppet toeing the highways view that SMART motoways safer. Pure bullshite.
I’ve got other jobs to do I run a very busy schedule… who do you think you are 😂
Highways? More like low-ways!!! Am I right people?!?!
This shows that highways England isn't fit for purpose.
Amen
I wonder what it would take for the Highways guy to get his hands out of his pockets. Bad omen, I feel!
Love video
Thanks alot! GDB
Hi I. Enjoy your videos all the time, but you’re not on enough.
30 seconds became five or ten mins, thats why highways are reluctant to close one lane.
Epic fail once again from Highways. I despair with them I really do. Too much bureaucracy and no-one wanting to make a simple decision or take control of a situation.
Yeah its preety rough how awful it is for us operators on the ground in the danger zones everyday.
Highways really need their arses kicking. No bods about when you need them and as for the operators doing the signs.
Its awful really. Im starting to post more videos motorway related, else NOTHING will ever get done to help.
I broke down between j7 and j6. No cameras working on that stretch at the time. Few stories I could tell over the years.
Shocking & worrying!!!!!!!!😳
Why not just hook up to the BMW and move it forward to a safer position then do the swap over? Also why go on a motorway recovery with a vehicle with a winch?
That is by far the worse recovery of a 4x4 and trailer on the motorway i have seen, no lane closure needed if the correct recovery vehicle dispatched, at least 40 minutes wasted endangering other road users, 15 minute job with correct tools, highways not to blame all down to operator, pleased your taking some time out, maybe subscribe in some recovery / risk assessment courses, and for all you fools out there it was not a good job Mr GDB !!!!
Job got done. See you on the next video ✅
The guys a clown, makes out its much harder than it is.
@@k-ti6pq see you on the next one ✅
MRS GDB please loosing ticks ,
Is what it is
Traffic wombles are a waste of time and resources. Get rid of highways wasters and give it back to traffic police.
Bugger I got pipped to the post on "100" likes, so I'm 101 hahaha
😂😂😂
Do these people live in the real world !!!
Highways chap wasn’t very happy😢
Doubly dangerous as there’s no barrier to stand behind.
Use rear reds all the time, the more lights the better chance of them seeing you, the ones complaining of rear reds don’t even work on the motorways
oh you want a temporary lane 1 colsure so you can do your work safely on the hard shoulder....... Nope can't do that it's above my pay grade.