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Since starting in 2006 CVR has quickly become one of the best known names locally in the recovery in 24/7 emergency breakdown recovery.

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12/10/2026

Drivers don’t stay in a job because of the truck.

They stay because of who’s in the yard when they get back, and whether the bloke on the radio at two in the morning actually knows what he’s on about.

We run out of Carterton and Highworth, 70 plus vehicles, at it since 2006. Some of the lads have been here years, which probably tells you more than anything we could write.

To join them you need a C or C+E category licence, a valid Driver CPC, a digital tachograph card, and no more than six penalty points. You’d get 28 days holiday, a workplace pension, and a company vehicle while you’re on shift.

Give us a ring.

Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire: 01993 845930
Wiltshire: 01793 766385

09/10/2026

The flails are out. Your tyres are about to find out.

Hedge cutting gets going properly once nesting season’s over, and every trimmed lane round here ends up with blackthorn and hawthorn scattered across it. Sharp stuff, and more of it points upwards than you’d like.

It sits there for days too. Long enough that when you get a slow puncture on the Tuesday you’ve completely forgotten the tractor you squeezed past on Friday.

Hang back if you’re following a cutter and give the lane a minute to settle. Then have a look at your tyres when you get home, because a thorn in the tread doesn’t always go down straight away and a slow puncture picks its moment.

Check the spare while you’re down there. That’s the one nobody looks at until they’re stood in the rain needing it.

Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire: 01993 845930
Wiltshire: 01793 766385

05/10/2026

Things people have actually said to us on the phone.

"I'm on a road." ...Brilliant.

"Next to a field with some sheep in it." Also a strong contender round here.

"By the pub" is the one that gets us though (We love it)

We have heard the lot and we don't mind, because being lost is half the reason people ring us.
Postcode's a mile out, hedges all look the same after dark, and somehow we find you anyway.

Best ones are when somebody describes a farm gate, a bend and a broken sign, and the driver goes "oh I know exactly where that is" before they've finished the sentence.

Go on then.

Worst place round here to describe to somebody?

Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire: 01993 845930
Wiltshire: 01793 766385

02/10/2026

See one deer, slow right down. There's never just one.

The rut's on now, so they'll be moving about far more than usual right through to December. Worst of it lines up with the drive home. Sunset through to midnight, then again around sunrise.

Round here that means the wooded stretches. Wychwood, the lanes towards Cornbury, anywhere the trees come right up to the verge. No warning at all, they're just there.

Whatever you do, don't swerve. Every instinct tells you to get out of the way, but a car that swerves at 50, ends up in oncoming traffic or wrapped round a tree.

Brake hard and hold the wheel straight. Stay in your lane.

If you do hit one, pull up somewhere safe, hazards on, and leave the animal be.

An injured deer is a lot stronger and a lot more frightened than people expect.

Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire: 01993 845930
Wiltshire: 01793 766385

28/09/2026

We let someone loose on a picture of one of the trucks. This is what came back.

She has got a bit of a look about her, hasn't she. Like she has been called out at 4am once too often and is not letting it go.

The real one is out across the Cotswolds right now, considerably less dramatic and considerably more useful.

Go on then. Does she suit us?

Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire: 01993 845930
Wiltshire: 01793 766385

25/09/2026

You only ever meet one of us. The voice on the phone.

There is a control room behind that, running 24 hours, and it is where the actual work starts. Somebody takes the call, works out where you really are rather than where you think you are, decides what is needed to shift your vehicle, and finds the nearest person capable of doing it.

That last bit is harder than it sounds. A car on a driveway and a car halfway into a hedge on a single track lane are two completely different jobs, needing two different vehicles. Send the wrong one and everybody waits twice.

So when we ask what feels like a lot of questions while you are stood at the side of a road in the cold, that is why. What you tell us in the first two minutes decides how long you are stood there.

Landmarks help. Field gates, pub names, a farm entrance, the last village sign you went past. Anything beats nothing.

Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire: 01993 845930
Wiltshire: 01793 766385

21/09/2026

Ask most drivers what matters in a job and they will not say the truck.

They say whether they can book the week off in October without a fight. Whether there is a pension going in. Whether they are climbing into something decent every shift or something held together with hope.

So here it is plainly. 28 days holiday. A workplace pension. A company vehicle while you are on shift.

To drive for us you need a C or C+E category licence, a valid Driver CPC, a digital tachograph card, and no more than six penalty points.

We run 70 plus vehicles out of Carterton and Highworth, we are ISO 9001 registered, and we work alongside Thames Valley, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire police. Twenty years of it now.

If that reads better than where you are, give us a ring.

Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire: 01993 845930
Wiltshire: 01793 766385

18/09/2026

The evenings have gone. One week you are driving home in daylight, the next you are not.

Which brings us to the thing almost nobody checks. Most drivers with a light out have no idea. You cannot see your own brake lights, you cannot see your own rear fog, and a bulb that failed in July has had all summer to go unnoticed because you have not needed it.

Two minutes fixes it.

Pull up somewhere with a wall or a window behind you and look at the reflection. Sidelights, headlights, indicators, then get someone to stand behind while you press the brake. Give the lenses a wipe while you are there, because a summer of flies and dust takes more light out than people expect.
It matters more on our roads than most. Unlit lanes, no pavements, and pedestrians and horses that deserve to see you coming.

Small job. Worth doing this weekend.

Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire: 01993 845930
Wiltshire: 01793 766385

14/09/2026

There is a particular sound a car makes when a hedge takes the wing mirror off.
You do not forget it.

Harvest is on, which means tractors and trailers on lanes that were tight enough already. Most drivers meet one, panic slightly, and reverse into a verge that turns out to be a ditch with grass on top.

Here is the thing worth knowing. The tractor driver can see far more than you can. Sat up there they have a view over the hedge and they usually know exactly where the nearest passing place is, in both directions. If they wave you back, they are not being awkward. They can see something you cannot.

So take it slowly, reverse rather than squeeze, and stay off the soft edges. Verges look solid in September and are not.

And if it does go wrong, we get cars out of ditches more often than you would think.

Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire: 01993 845930
Wiltshire: 01793 766385

07/09/2026

Same licence. Completely different job.

If you have got a Class 2 you already know what the standard week looks like. Same route, same depot, same drop points, and a lot of hours spent watching the same stretch of road go past.

Recovery is not that.

You do not know what today is until the phone goes. Could be a car on a lane outside Burford, could be something considerably bigger on the A419. You work out the problem, then you solve it.

What you need: a C or C+E category licence, a valid Driver CPC, a digital tachograph card, and no more than six penalty points.

What you get: 28 days holiday, a workplace pension, and a company vehicle while you are on shift.

We have been doing this since 2006 out of Carterton and Highworth. If the same road every day has worn thin, give us a ring.

Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire: 01993 845930
Wiltshire: 01793 766385

Address

CVR House, Ventura Business Park
Carterton
OX181AA

Telephone

+441993845930

Website

http://www.cotswoldvehiclerecovery.co.uk/

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