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[manc-miggy]

I had a greenflag assosciate come out to my car vectra 2.5 V6 after it went into limp mode well reving itself up sounding like a tractor he pluged it into tech 2 and suprise suprise its my ecu as his tech 2 won't access the my ecu so get towed home with acess to my tools I looked into the sparkplugs found a burnt out plug leas and the electrode of the spark plug had gone ? Yup weird new plugs an new leads started and cured lol

But the worst thing is I was a recovery manager dealing with greenflag / rac / mondial and greater manchester police at the time this happend  lol I'm now a fleet manager for a large company

I'm with elephant and have there cover greemflag lol its free so what the heck lol

[Kate]

I arranged my cover with Asda!

The cover is with Britannia rescue and includes roadside, national rescue, cover at home, onward travel etc. for 70 pounds a year!

I've never called them out yet though!

http://www.asdafinance.com/insurance/breakdown/

[pscocoa]

There is not an easy answer to this.

I have AA courtesy of my Bank. Was with RAC for 30 years until they started the no existing cusotmer loyalty thing from their indian call centre so told them where to go.

Called out the AA over Christmas 2009 and got terrible service in that they relayed the car via 3 different trucks from Bristol back to Sandhurst and also they had to pay for a taxi as they took over 12 hours to do it.

With Green Flag you get the same truck assigned as it is a contractor whereas AA try to use their own fleet wherever possible and so in 2009 we had 2 contractors and one fleet vehicle - total nightmare.

On balance and if AA was not part of my bank deal I would check out Green Flag.

[Nick W]

There is not an easy answer to this.

Called out the AA over Christmas 2009 and got terrible service in that they relayed the car via 3 different trucks from Bristol back to Sandhurst and also they had to pay for a taxi as they took over 12 hours to do it.

With Green Flag you get the same truck assigned as it is a contractor whereas AA try to use their own fleet wherever possible and so in 2009 we had 2 contractors and one fleet vehicle - total nightmare.

On balance and if AA was not part of my bank deal I would check out Green Flag.

And to do that the Green Flag contractor would have made use of the recovery exemption from the tacho rules.
That was done away with 2 years ago, for penty of good reasons. After all, do you want to be driven 200 miles by someone who has already done 8 hours work?
Now, we have to look at a job and check that a driver has enough hours to reach the destination and get back.
If there is no way of doing it, guess what happens?
Yes, you get 'relayed'(an AA term but descriptive) home!
The £100ish cost of national recovery is a real bargain; if you had to pay for a recovery from Bristol to Sandhurst it would easily be more than £500, paid up front.
Personally, I'm amazed that the recovery organisations don't insist that your car is repaired locally with them possibly paying some of the cost, than recover it a long distance.

[pscocoa]

In my case the contractor who came to us on the m5 was prepared to take us to Sandhurst in one hit - about 100 miles or so. AA rejected it and we went backwards to Gordano Services to be first the subject of an attempt to trolley it on the back of an AA van but the Omega would not fit and then we had to wait for a truck (another contractor)and he was almost out of hours and could only go to Chievely. The first contractor said that when he works for Green flag they give him the whole job and he uses his own network if he has to relay.

[Lazydocker]

There is not an easy answer to this.

Called out the AA over Christmas 2009 and got terrible service in that they relayed the car via 3 different trucks from Bristol back to Sandhurst and also they had to pay for a taxi as they took over 12 hours to do it.

With Green Flag you get the same truck assigned as it is a contractor whereas AA try to use their own fleet wherever possible and so in 2009 we had 2 contractors and one fleet vehicle - total nightmare.

On balance and if AA was not part of my bank deal I would check out Green Flag.

And to do that the Green Flag contractor would have made use of the recovery exemption from the tacho rules.
That was done away with 2 years ago, for penty of good reasons. After all, do you want to be driven 200 miles by someone who has already done 8 hours work?
Now, we have to look at a job and check that a driver has enough hours to reach the destination and get back.
If there is no way of doing it, guess what happens?
Yes, you get 'relayed'(an AA term but descriptive) home!
The £100ish cost of national recovery is a real bargain; if you had to pay for a recovery from Bristol to Sandhurst it would easily be more than £500, paid up front.
Personally, I'm amazed that the recovery organisations don't insist that your car is repaired locally with them possibly paying some of the cost, than recover it a long distance.

Must admit, I used to be on the road for a lot of hours when doing a GF job. Longest I went without actually sleeping for a full night was 4 days Just a couple of hours kip whenever I could get it

I don't miss those days