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Jackson’s

Recovery!

Jacksons Recovery Today they run a fleet of 16 vehicles
to cover North Cumbria, North
Lakes & South West Scotland. A
Jackson’s Recovery have been lot of square miles but mainly fields
covering North Cumbria for 40 and hills with a handful of major
years. They were established transport links running through such
back in 1978 by Frances & Walton as, M6, A66, A69, A75 as well as the
Jackson. The company is now run A74M. A small, mainly family team
by the next generation of Jackson’s; provide most of the man power to
David, George & Anne with the third provide an efficient service with only
generation, Ross and Richard also 3 “outsiders” bringing the staff count
working there full time since they left to 9.
school.
Work wise, they have lots of small
Jackson’s still operates at the original eggs in their basket. Car work
site at Mealsgate, Wigton which at comes from clubs such as ARL,
the time was a small petrol station Allianz, Call Assist, IPA and VRNL
accompanied by a workshop on the as well as other smaller clubs,
side of the main A road, that linked local dealerships, bodyshops and
Carlisle with West Cumbria and the garages. Commercial work comes
Lake district. Today the site no longer mainly from local dealers such as
sells fuel but instead hosts a larger Mercedes, Daf & Scania, hauliers,
workshop office, as well as more bus and coach companies and a
storage capacity. The workshop wide range of recovery operators
consists of Class 4 & 7 MOT’s as throughout the country.
well as your day to day servicing and
repairs, with a strong local following To handle the wide spectrum of
which as been built up over the vehicles to recover they have quite
years. This works hand in hand with a large fleet when you consider how
the recovery operation to smooth much manpower they have. The fleet
out the peaks and troughs of the as it stands currently; 2x specs, 1 rotator, a trax sliding axle trailer and Day to day
breakdown workload. beavertails, 2x 7.5t slidebeds as well commercial service van. recover jobs for
as a RDT service van to handle the Jackson’s
Back in 2004 they expanded to majority of the car work. Another two The challenges Jackson’s face
Carlisle following a gap in the 13.5 ton slidebeds, an 18T accident today are the forever changing
market as other competitors were unit and a 4x4 handle the vans and rules and regulations. They have
downsizing. Since 2004, Jackson’s accident work. The commercial just sorted all the data protection
have built up a broad customer recovery is catered for by 2 Boniface documents everyone requires and
base for both cars and commercials six wheelers; one Mercedes Trident the next main change to come their
which required them moving to & one Daf Recoverer. A four wheel way could well be the path of heavy
larger premises back in 2008 to their Scania NRC is favoured for solo recovery. Finding staff for the one
current site just off junction 44 of the units and rigids up to 15 tonnes. heavy wrecker required to tow a
M6.
To finish the fleet is a 6x6 foden truck and trailer combination is hard
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