Recovery heroes
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• The heavy recovery specialist is considered as a necessary evil and it could be that hauliers and coach operators envy us because we appear to be protected by "grey areas".
I have no doubt that certain so-called recovery men have taken advantage of this anomaly in the law
and abused it again and again. These are not the actions of a professional recovery operator, it is our version of your aptly named "cowboy" operator who tries to run a recovery business on a shoestring with no experience or training because he is not required to as far as Government bodies are concerned.
The Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators and the Institute of Vehicle Recovery are concerned about the unscrupulous impersonators who can only do our industry harm.
We don't want to bury our heads in the sand, we want to operate in a legally acceptable way for the safety of all road users and the emergency service personnel with whom we come into contact regularly.
Please come along to the AVRO EX show and meet these strange people and their families who have to be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks of the year. The show is being held at the Hilton International hotel, Warwick on 10-12 May.
Let us tell you how we are being prosecuted, or is it persecuted, at every turn while trying to do our jobs. George Graham Auto Recoveries, Carlisle.