The term breakdown recovery is often used to describe the service of breakdown cover, but in reality more breakdowns are repaired at the roadside and do need any recovery vehicles at all. The basic package often does not include a recovery service except for to be towed to the neared garage.
European breakdown cover is normally an extra policy bought to cover you through certain European countries. You should be aware that not all countries in Europe may have an agreement with your breakdown cover provider, so you should check your agreement before purchase or travel.
Most breakdown cover companies claim they can be with you within the hour should you have a breakdown. Some even claim to give you cash back should they fail to do so and other claim their average call out time as 40 minutes.
It is true that cars are more reliable now than ever but it is equally true that we have never expected more from our vehicles than in the world we live in now. We expect to travel many more miles than we ever did within ever busy roads and harder driving conditions and at faster speed. Make sure that should some thing happen, you have at least considered a business breakdown cover policy to get you home.
Are you prepared for that day when everything seems to go wrong? You are late for work, you fall out with your boss but the icing on the cake was that you broke down in your call, had to call out a local recovery man and now have a huge bill to repair your car. If only you had business breakdown cover and it may just have been that little bit easier and cheaper.
