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Vehicle recovery

Websites and business systems for vehicle recovery operators

Recovery firms are found in a hurry, judged in seconds and paid in two completely different ways. We build the website, the enquiry route and the systems behind them around that — and, where it helps, the software that runs the yard.

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The starting point

What is actually different about recovery work

In one paragraph

A recovery firm is not one business with one customer — it is a reactive roadside operation and a trade supplier sharing the same units. The stranded motorist wants to know within seconds that you cover where they are. The garage putting you on their list wants to know you will still be trading next year. Most recovery websites are built for the first and quietly lose the second, and most were never connected to whatever the office actually runs on.

The enquiry is usually urgent and usually on a phone

Someone at the side of a road wants to know you exist, that you cover where they are, and how to reach you — in that order, in a few seconds, on a screen held in one hand. A website that opens with a carousel is answering a question nobody asked.

Where you cover is a real question, not a footer detail

Recovery is bounded by geography and by what your units can lift. Saying which areas you work and what you can recover is not marketing copy; it is the thing that decides whether the call is worth either party's time.

Two customers, not one

Private roadside work and trade accounts — garages, dealers, insurers, fleets — arrive differently, buy differently and get billed differently. A site that speaks only to the stranded motorist ignores the accounts that fill the diary between shouts.

Out of hours is not an edge case

A good part of the work arrives when the office is shut. What happens to a form submitted at two in the morning is a design decision, and on most recovery websites it has never been made.

What we build

The parts, and which of them you actually need

Not a package. Recovery firms differ enormously in size and in what already works, and the point of the first conversation is to find out which of these is worth doing.

A website built for the way recovery work arrives

Fast on a poor signal, legible in daylight, with the phone number reachable without scrolling. Your service area and what your units can handle stated plainly, and the trade side given its own route rather than being buried under the roadside copy.

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Or a redesign, if the bones are sound

Plenty of recovery sites are not broken so much as unfinished — the pages exist but the enquiry goes nowhere useful. Where the structure and the search visibility are worth keeping, a redesign is the cheaper honest answer and we will say so.

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Enquiry capture that survives the roadside

A form that asks where the vehicle is, what it is, and how to reach you — and then delivers that somewhere it can be acted on. Recovery Desk takes those enquiries directly, tagged by whether they came from the phone, the website or WhatsApp.

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Automation of the parts that repeat

Acknowledgements, the chasing of a trade account that has gone quiet, the re-keying of the same job into a second system. Worth automating where the rule is stable enough to write down, and not worth it where it is not.

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Connecting to what you already run

Most yards already have something that works — accounts, a diary, a spreadsheet everyone trusts. Where a documented way in exists we use it. Where it does not, you will hear that before you commit rather than after.

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Being findable where the work is

Technical foundations, structured data and pages built around what people actually search for when they need recovering — which is rarely the phrase a recovery firm would choose to describe itself.

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The software

Recovery Desk, if the operational side is the problem

Where the website is fine and the difficulty is running the work itself, the answer is a different one.

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Recovery Desk

Vehicle recovery management software

A dispatch board showing every live job by stage, enquiries from the phone, the website and WhatsApp in one list, units and drivers with their compliance dates counting down, the job book, trade accounts on terms, invoicing and the money behind it. There is an interactive demonstration you can open and use.

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It is not a requirement of anything else on this page. A website and a sensible enquiry route is a complete piece of work, and for a lot of operators it is the right amount.

How it runs

What working with us looks like

  1. 1
    We ask how the work reaches you nowHow much is roadside and how much is trade, what happens to an enquiry at two in the morning, and which of your existing systems anyone would defend.
  2. 2
    We tell you what is worth doingIncluding what is not. If your site needs a redesign rather than a rebuild, or if the integration you want has no documented route, you hear that first.
  3. 3
    We build it and you see it workingTested on real devices, on the kind of connection you get at the side of a road, and handed over so your own people can keep it current.
  4. 4
    We stay availableOngoing care where you want it, and further work when there is a reason — not a monthly retainer for a report about impressions.

FAQs

Questions recovery operators ask us

Do you build websites for vehicle recovery operators?
Yes. A recovery website has a specific job to do: establish quickly that you exist, that you cover the area, and how to reach you — while also giving the trade side of the business a route that is not buried under the roadside copy. We build for that rather than adapting a general business template.
What is Recovery Desk, and do I have to take it?
Recovery Desk is our vehicle recovery management software — a dispatch board, the job book, units and drivers, invoicing and the fleet's compliance dates in one place. You do not have to take it. Plenty of operators want the website and the enquiry route sorted and nothing more, and that is a complete piece of work on its own.
Can you connect the website to the system we already use?
Sometimes, and it depends entirely on whether that system has a documented way in. Where it does, connecting to it is usually cheaper and less disruptive than replacing it. Where it does not, we will tell you that at the outset instead of discovering it halfway through.
Do you integrate with motoring organisations or insurer networks?
No, and we would not claim otherwise. We have no relationship with any motoring organisation, insurer, recovery network or police force, and nothing we build should be read as implying one. What we can do is make sure the work that comes to you directly is captured properly.
We mostly get work from trade accounts. Is a website still worth it?
Often yes, but for a different reason than you would expect. A garage or a fleet manager deciding whether to put you on their list is checking that you look like a business that will still be there next year and can handle what they need lifting. That is a credibility job, and it is a different page from the roadside one.
Can you handle enquiries that come in overnight?
That is a design decision rather than a technical problem, and it is worth making deliberately. An out-of-hours enquiry can be acknowledged automatically, routed to whoever is carrying the phone, and still be sitting on the desk in the morning as a record. What it should not do is land in an inbox nobody opens until nine.

Other industries

Where else we work

Funeral directorsThe other industry we have built a full system for, including Berevia.Trades & constructionWork won on responsiveness and proof, with a site that loads in a van.All industriesEvery sector we build for, and how far each build tends to go.

Tell us how your yard actually runs

How much of the work is trade, what happens to the enquiries that arrive overnight, and what you would fix first if it cost nothing. We will tell you which parts are worth building and which are not.

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