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NEWS
Apex ANS four week review
Up to week ending 6 June*
The first week of June saw a huge spike in volumes, driven
by the May half term school holiday week. Combined with
continued easing of lock down restriction and the fact that
overseas holidays are still very complicated, the British people
took to the road to have staycations and daytrips around the
country. Traffic volumes spiked, as did recovery incidents. The
total number of jobs on the ANS network was 117 thousand, an
increase of 31% vs the week before and 57% higher than the
comparable week in 2019. Suffice to say that this was the busiest
week in the last 12 months by some margin and actually busier
than any week in pre lockdown 2019. If this is a sign of things
to come during the summer, the industry needs to ensure it is
prepared. It is worth noting that we saw a significant increase in
our pinpoint requests, to help identify the exact coordinates of a
broken down vehicle.
It is interesting to note, that according to our date the median
time between job accepted and at scene wasn’t materially
impacted by the additional volumes. This is quite phenomenal
and something of which the industry can be proud.
For the entire four-week period, we saw clear trends towards
higher overall volumes (+33%), higher out of hours volumes
(+66%) and higher RTCs (+34%), whilst the number of at home
jobs barely changes (+1%) as people started using their cars
again. This is all in line with expectations, as the country is slowly
coming out of lock down. Nonetheless, it is great to see that the
industry is slowly getting back to normal sustainable volumes.
Compared to 2019, volumes were also higher than expected, but
this is driven mainly by the extraordinary volumes of the half term
week.
*For this review we will always compare the figures for the latest four week period compared to the prior four week period to achieve
the best like for like comparison.
PA insurance for LV=
Britannia Rescue agents
LV= Britannia Rescue are pleased to announce that once
again we are providing Personal Accident insurance to all
our agents.
The PA insurance policy is paid for annually by LV= Britannia
Rescue at no cost to our agent network and is designed to
provide some immediate financial relief to individuals or families
in the event that they encounter a permanent accidental injury.
VINTAGE RECOVERY
VEHICLE DISPLAY 2021
Vintage Recovery Vehicle Display
2021 Tow Show
The cover is for all staff working within the business so applies
to roadside, recovery, garage, control room and office staff.
To make it even easier to access this cover we have arranged it
so staff no longer have to complete any forms for the insurance
scheme. If staff do need to make a claim all that needs to be in
place is that your company was an Agent on our Network at the
time of the accident.
Please contact LV= Britannia Rescue Network team in the first
instance to initiate making a claim at Network.management@
britanniarescue.com
Do you have a vintage recovery vehicle you
would like to display at the 2021 Tow Show?
All vehicle types are welcome from light to heavy recovery.
For more information or to be included, please register
your vehicle by sending a brief email to the address below
with the following information;
● Date of vehicle manufacture.
● Brief description and history of the vehicle.
● Type of equipment the vehicle has.
● Capacity if known.
● Supporting photograph of the vehicle.
The contact details to send applications to is via John Coupland /
jcoupland@castle-hire.co.uk or Andy Lambert / andy@andylambert.com
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