15/04/2024
Jim and I started our 24hour Breakdown and Recovery Business in 1991, having run the Garage for a number of years. We worked hard to build up the Recovery business with Jim doing many of the Breakdowns and Recoveries himself and me answering phones over 24 hours, processing the paperwork (much of it handwritten in those days), whilst also running a busy Garage Workshop and bringing up our family. Obviously we have been supported over the years by some fantastic Staff /Friends and Family. So it’s with a heavy heart that I have to admit that with my health deteriorating that I cannot cope with the 24 Hour aspect of the job (even with Carly’s help at weekends!).
Lauren and Dave have both been amazing managing both Workshop, Recovery Contracts and keeping a fleet of vehicles running – which isn’t the easiest of tasks but I cannot ask them to work through the nights and weekends as well as managing everything else Monday to Friday.
So I have decided to take a backseat and we are ending our Contracts with the Motoring Organisations (RAC, AA, Greenflag etc.) as it has also recently turned into a more challenging task to help people that have been kept waiting for many hours or completely let down by their Clubs with some Clubs saving their work until the following day for their own Branded Patrols.
Our Garage Workshop is becoming much more busy and it’s hard to find staff that want to turn out at 3am to recover people and vehicles to the other side of the Country so we are going to concentrate on the increasingly busy Workshop. We will be keeping our Breakdown Van and a couple of Recovery Trucks in order to help anyone broken down, but will be operating recoveries on a much smaller scale.
I would like to thank all our Customers for their support over the years and reassure them that we are still here for them if they need us for both Garage and private Breakdown/Recovery work.
