Services
Major Incidents
The major incident team is a select group of individuals drawn from the various operator teams that make up McAllisters Recovery. They range in age, skills and experience. Ready at a moments notice, they respond quickly to any major incident to clear it quickly and effectively.
It is team that responds to the incidents that make up the 'BIG job of the month'. The team is made up of ten people, available on rotation 24 hours a day to meet the needs of primarily our Police and Highways contract's needs for major incident recovery and any major customer on the LGV accident management scheme.
When the team attends a major incident the first on the scene is the Quick Response Vehicle used to assess Scene. This is usually the Ex police Volvo T5. Now that we have 'eyes on the ground' the incident supervisor makes an informed decision on the equipment and personnel required to attend.
From the Heavy Team - Rotator / Underlifts /Accident Units /Low Loader.
From the Commercial Roadside Team - Air Cushion Rescue Unit
From the Accident Team - Lorry Loader Cranes / Grab Buckets
From the Admin Team - Communications and Photography
The Major Incident Team Leader will then attend the scene as quick as safetly possible where he will supervise the recovery. He has numerous backup resources, which include other recovery company's and their equipment who are sub-contractors, mobile crane's, divers, grab lorrys, curtainsiders, tree surgeons and even vets! Whatever the need, we have means of sourcing to get the scene cleared quickly and effectively. From these resources the team will then conduct the recovery operation.
30 years of experience make this team the most effective major incident team of its kind in our operational area, when McAllisters are called to attend, the job is as good as done, below is a sample video of a rigid vehicle being bought back up to its wheels on motorway embankment,if you want to see more please navigate to the 'News' and then 'Major of the Month' section where you will find more videos and pictures, and also 'Gallery' under 'Company Profile'.
