Heavy Rescue: 401 Episode Rating Graph

An air ambulance crew takes off after a pileup results in serious casualties; Preferred fights to clear two wrecks blocking the road to the border; a veteran operator rescues a leaning trailer.

Freezing rain scatters Gary's team, forcing him to work solo to open the continent's busiest border crossing; in Windsor, Brad, Eric and crew fear a tragedy when they untangle a sedan badly crushed by a semi.

A heavy crew must remove a load of industrial glass panels from a buckled trailer, a double wreck pushes the crews from Herb's and Cornwall into a tense race, Gary gives a rookie operator the chance to learn the ropes at a difficult scene.

The OPP must manage a chaotic scene after a thirty-vehicle pileup shuts down the 401; Mitch sets a tight deadline in his first job as leader of the heavy crew; a semi smashes into a culvert, the Rosss try out their newest operator.

A storm sweeps across the province, sending heavy rescue crews scrambling; in Hamilton, Kevin fights to clear a wreck in time for the plows to get through.

A pileup on the 401 brings traffic to a standstill and pushes the Ross crew into action; Sonny helps a driver stuck on a dangerous stretch of highway in Toronto; Herbs rookie Zach masters a difficult move for the first time.

Sonny and his new boss face their first heavy test, fighting a semi frozen hard into the mud; a double collision brings border traffic to a halt in Sarnia, forcing Gary and crew to wrangle a difficult load of cargo.

Mitch's new partnership with his brother is put to the test in the aftermath of a brutal storm; Eric, Derek and crew take on a load of steel pipes, threatening to spring loose on the road; Andrew and his team wrestle difficult cargo.

The Herb’s team fights fire while tussling with a burned-out semi; as whiteouts rage across the 402 in Sarnia, Mark fights his way through a long backup to reach a job; a unique recovery crew faces a heavy load of peat moss and trailer ready to split.

After a triple crash, the crew from Chatham struggles to keep a mangled truck in one piece; a complicated air cushion job tests a new rotator operator; the new heavy crew at Metro gets a bad case of déjà vu.

The OPP responds to a tragedy that rocks the towing community; when Sonny gets caught on a dangerous stretch of road, he must turn to an unexpected source for help; a truckload of confetti shreds Mitchs nerves.

Bill Wright and his son need to become a tight team on a remote job; a city-based crew heads north to fight a demolished tractor-trailer in rugged terrain; Kevin feels the pressure when a load of steel smashes onto the highway right before rush hour.

Duncan helps an industry veteran take on a heavy rollover in a marathon job that delivers one huge problem after another. The OnRoute crew wrestles a load of wood with the afternoon commute closing in. A load of sparkling water sparks a painful offload.

Mitch from B&G joins forces with John Allen to clean up a triple collision and a badly leaking tanker; a newly promoted rotator op fights a trailer that's ripping in two; Kevin rushes to clear a wreck in time for an important family milestone.

An overpass jackknife pushes Bill Wright into quick action; Collin's first heavy job after a close call forces him to put his father's new safety plan to the test.

A massive storm across the southern tip of the province pushes the County crew into an intense double recovery.

Collin gets caught in the middle of icy roads; Collin attempts his first solo recovery; Bubba fights to stop a fuel leak and a buckling trailer.

Snow squalls attack Highway 402, sending Gary, Collin and Mark to work deep in the trees; a fuel tanker rolls next to rail lines in Toronto's industrial port lands; the Chatham crew improvises against a fire-ravaged wreck.

Bubba battles a stubborn wreck in the middle of an ice storm; Sonny must improvise while clearing a pile of steel beams; Gary deals with a plummeting tanker.

Andrews sister joins the crew for her first recovery; Eric attempts to keep his crew safe; Collins once-in-a-lifetime job goes wrong.

A massive super-storm blasts across the province; Sonny hurries to help a stranded customer.

When a tanker bursts open east of Toronto, a young operator faces a toxic mess; Gary reacts fast when he spots a dangerous mistake on the road; a rookie takes the controls for his first heavy job.

Sgt. Kerry Schmidt fights to get stuck commuters moving; Austin Hutchinson is forced to battle a nasty wreck all on his own; Abrams' John Allen tackles a snowplow blocking a vital ramp.

Rookie Sonny faces a 40-car pile-up that turns a major highway into a war zone; in the snow blet, a fierce storm triggers a triple-semi crash; the father-son team at Preferred Towing race to clear the road as weather blasts in.

Herbs Towing turns a wreck on its head with some unexpected assistance; with traffic backing up for 50 kilometres, a fuel leak complicates an already stressful recovery for Steve and crew.

A double tanker loaded with gasoline smashes into a house; Duncan Cooper puts his new 50-ton rotator to the test; Gary and Collin bring their rookie crew to a bad collision blocking the road to the border.

Gary and the team tackle a tanker wreck; Steves crew fights to get a tall tractor off the highway.

Duncan takes on a difficult wreck as Mike McPhee returns from the injured list; a load of liquid asphalt threatens to spread and spurs a quick cleanup; a violent crash shuts down the road to the border and forces Kyle to confront hard trauma from his past.

When a transport rolls on a dangerous curve, John Campbell needs to master his new rotator in a hurry; Duncan Cooper and crew take on a full load of medical supplies dumped on the side of the highway; Gary and Collin dig deep to keep a fully loaded truck from tipping over.

Thick fog descends on the highway, turning a seemingly simple recovery into one of the most dangerous jobs of Garys career; a mangled trailer forces the Ross crew to take a chance on a very unconventional maneuver.

Gary's team fights to upright a battered trailer that is dangerously close to splitting open; a rookie takes his first shot as lead operator on the rotator under tough conditions.

A semi-truck crash shuts down a crucial border route, putting pressure on lead operator Kevin to reopen the road; rookie heavy rescue driver Sonny helps a trucker stuck on a dangerous stretch of highway; a tanker wreck causes commuter chaos in Toronto.

The crew responds to a wreck scene that stretches over half a kilometre; Sonny takes on the role of mentor; Onne and the crew work to save a trailer.

With his dad away, Mitch works with his older brother to get a stubborn wreck onto the road, but these brothers rarely see eye-to-eye; Glen, Todd and crew improvise to offload some extreme cargo.

An armored truck rolls over on the 401; Kim Reid's crew deals with a toppled trailer in a risky spot; Ross Services handles a tanker full of gasoline; Gary and Collin have conflicting ideas about getting a badly compromised trailer back to the road.

Sgt. Kerry Schmidt coordinates heavy tows and Sonny Subra must clear a ramp littered with semis; Herb's Towing takes on a B-train that slid right off the highway; Eric Goddard brings a brand-new heavy wrecker to recover a heavy trailer.

When a bridge collapses in a river, it’s up to the Ross crew to execute the biggest, most complex job of the season. And one of North America’s youngest rotator operators gets in over his head.

Sonny deals with a jackknife during the first winter storm; John deals with a messy wreck under an overpass.

The first storm of the season forces OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt to take hands-on action; Collin leads the crew to recover a tanker with a highly toxic payload; the Ross crew faces a trailer on its head that demands a double roll to wrangle it upright.

The Ross crew uprights a wreck filled with loose car engines, prompting a dangerous offload; a sudden stop shears off a truck's cab, shutting down the road to the border; John Allen heads down a steep ravine for a delicate recovery.

John Allen spends a frigid night battling a load of spilled scrap metal. Collin faces a tight deadline on a tough double recovery. Bill Wright makes a hard call, leading to an emotional farewell for Mitch and the entire B&G crew.

The crew scrambles to keep the roads open during a whiteout, but drivers wind up stranded on the 402; John battles high winds during a job high above the 401.

Members of the "Highway Thru Hell" crew join the 401 crew to weigh in on the unique challenges of recovery operations in Ontario and B.C.. comparing the biggest wrecks and toughest jobs over the past winter.

Sonny hunts for a shortcut across town after a runaway van smashes through a wall and into the path of a full-speed truck; the crew from Herb’s hurries to save a load of pharmaceuticals before it freezes.

Kevin orchestrates a team of heavy operators during a highway cleanup job; Garys crew is sent on a marathon recovery.

A rolled-over load of scrap metal defies gravity and Kevins patience; the Cornwall crew rides to the rescue of a fire truck; County Towing struggles to get a grip on an icy highway.